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Opinion: Rejecting high-speed rail remains a huge fiasco for Florida
(Source: Sun Sentinel opinion column by Anthony Orlando, March 22, 2013)
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — In June 2009, ten Florida Congressmen sent a letter to the Department of Transportation, requesting over $2 billion from the federal government. They wanted to build a high-speed rail line, shuttling passengers from Tampa to Orlando and eventually Miami in only two hours. The money was supposed to come from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the $787 billion "stimulus" bill that newly-elected President Barack Obama signed in February of that year.
Of the ten Florida Congressmen, three were Republicans, and all three had voted against the stimulus: Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Mario Diaz-Balart, and Adam Putnam.
This kind of about-face wasn't unusual. Many Republicans were begging for a piece of the stimulus after they had tried to kill it in Congress
Full story: Sun Sentinel
Friday, March 22, 2013
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