This past weekend’s edition of InterCHANGE on Milwaukee Public Television Channel 10 may have set a record for the number of times I was interrupted by Kathleen Dunn and/or Joel McNally.
One of the interruptions came when I was discussing Governor Doyle’s solution to the $653-million revenue shortfall. Doyle wants to raid the state’s Transportation Fund to help balance the books. I tried to point out that the Transportation Fund is financed by the state’s gas tax, one of the highest in the nation that in turn is used to pay for road projects including the potholes that have made the Interstate and other roads look like World War II battlefields.
Joel then yelled across the studio at me, that there was no way the potholes wouldn’t get fixed.
Oh, really?
I make it a point to prepare for each and every week’s show. Joel should do the same.
He could at least read a newspaper he should love, the ultra-liberal, Communistic Capital Times, a paper his column occasionally appears in.
If he had, Joel would have read this in the paper the day before we taped InterCHANGE:
Doyle: Potholes won't be filled without budget fix
David Callender — 3/14/2008 9:56 am
Gov. Jim Doyle Thursday warned that drivers may pay the price for legislative inaction on the state's looming budget deficit.
Doyle said uncertainty over state revenues is forcing many local governments to delay bids on road repair projects -- including pothole repairs.
"They don't know how much money they're going to be getting," Doyle told reporters during a Capitol press conference Thursday afternoon. "The snow is melting and people are anxious to get going with those repairs."
But if lawmakers fail to act soon, "you're going to see a lot of unhappy motorists out there."
Now, I'm not sure I follow the governor's logic: We will fix the potholes and other road projects if you approve my fix that includes raiding the Transportation Fund that will mean less money for road repairs????
Only In Governor Doyle's fuzzy world, I guess.
Regardless, Joel, even your onw governor says WE WON'T FIX POTHOLES!
Liberals.
Can't let facts get in the way of a debate.
