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Gee whiz, Frank Lautenberg got NJ a half-off coupon good for a future green energy project

Frank Lautenberg brings home the (vague promise of) bacon.

If New Jersey agrees to pay the full $271 million dollar fine the feds are demanding for Chris Christie's cancellation of the boondoggle Hudson River tunnel project Frank negotiated a "credit" good for up to $128 million toward some nebulous future green energy endeavor.

Way to go Frankie! You're really working for us.

"The Governor's disastrous decision to kill the ARC tunnel put New Jersey taxpayers on the hook to pay back $271 million to the federal government for money the state already spent on the project," Lautenberg said in a statement. "I have been working since the day Governor Christie unwisely killed the project to clean up this mess and reduce the cost to taxpayers in our state. I am pleased that the Federal government has agreed to cut the ultimate cost to our state nearly in half — by $128 - million and I will continue to look for other ways to ease the fallout from the Governor's ill-advised decision..

Golly Frank, don't break your arm patting yourself on the back. You larded 120 earmarks into Harry Reid's $1.1 Trillion Omnibus Budget Buster Act and the absolute best you can do is a credit for some future project? Pray tell Frank, what was more important? And for that matter, your partner in pork, Bob "Campaign Cash" Menendez, found room for an eye-popping 123 earmarks.

So 243 other projects around the state were deemed worthy of some personal attention, but while you were "working since the day" Christie killed ARC you couldn't find a way to erase Ray LaHood's spiteful demand for us to pay up by Christmas?

I'm thinking it's because you two turkeys didn't want to find a way. Getting the taxpayers of New Jersey off the hook also serves to make Chris Christie look good, and everybody knows that the White House is adamant about making Chris Christie look bad.

Besides, negotiating for a better deal would've cut into your nap time.

Posted at 22:03 by Chris Wysocki   [/nj_politics]   Comments | Archived | Perm Link |
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