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Originally Posted by jtown,man
You realize the Democrats have had power on and off for the last 30 years, right? Its so tiring hearing political posturing on issues like this. Democrats in Washington share a lot less enthusiasm than say Democrats in San Francisco for raising gas taxes.
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That's simply not correct. Since the Newt Gingrich takeover circa 1995, Democrats have only controlled the White House and both houses of Congress for two years, the first two years of Obama's presidency. So only 2 years out of the past 23~. Those were the two years immediately following the economic collapse and Republicans endlessly derided the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act that funneled a lot of money directly to cities, bypassing the hostile Republican-controlled state governments.
California got a ton of money for HSR out of that so-called "stimulus package", including rail money that was allocated to Wisconsin and my home state of Ohio. When Kasich (and fellow tea partier Scott Walker) was elected in 2010 he rejected that Obama stumulus money for a new rail service in Ohio and the FRA re-allocated most of the returned $400 million to California.