In response to stories of Governor-Elect Scott Walker’s transition team’s office being swamped with pro-train calls, conservative e-mail lists have just been blasted with the following message:
Please call Scott Walker’s transition office in Madison. The correct number is 608-261-9200. Call and say NO! to the train.
Below is a message from Tim Dake from the Wisconsinn GrandSons of Liberty:
Please see the forwarded e-mail message below from the “progressive” organization One Wisconsin Now.
13,000 or more jobs??? Even WisDOT says that only 55 permanent jobs will be created and the construction crews will not even account for 1/10th of One Wisconsin Now’s prediction. Maybe that is the number of new taxpayers need to fund each car?
Billions of dollars in economic development??? Really? Really? From WHAT??? The tracks are supposed to already be in place; the stations are to be either newly built or refurbished; the rails cars will take only a few weeks to build.
Reduce congestion? How? The number of drivers removed from the road are miniscule since the train carries a limited capacity and few drivers are going from downtown Madison or Milwaukee to the other city and whatever stops (which are dwindling) in between. Cars, busses, rickshaws or whatever will still be needed to get people to and from the stations.
Reduced travel times? The proposed schedules show that travel times will increase significantly as people WAIT for trains and WAIT at stops and WAIT to get between the station and their destinations compared to drive times.
Much more? I am afraid to know what the much more might be. And that is in response to just the first paragraph.
Newspaper accounts today show that the leftist, liberal, progressive, socialist, statist radicals are already attempting to overwhelm the Walker office phone lines with their pleas to save the 810 million dollars worth of pork-barrel projects, uh, I mean, trains.
The train shown in the picture in the One Wisconsin Now e-mail is not even the kind of train that would be built and ran here!
Lastly, these trains are going to cost each and every Wisconsinite money every year to build and operate whether you live near it and ride it or not. So Superior, Wausau, Eagle River and all points north can take a good look at where Madison and Milwaukee libs are saying your tax dollars should go.
The information Tim Dake is discussing is from an e-mail blast from One Wisconsin Now’s Save The Train campaign.
In other train news:
- Scott Walker has been making the rounds on talk radio, reiterating his opposition to the train and suggesting he is still trying to find a way to raid the high speed rail money and use it for roads.
- The Sierra Club is sponsoring a State-wide day of action on Saturday, November 20th, from 9am-12pm. If you wish to host an event, contact Elizabeth Ward at Elizabeth.Ward@sierraclub.org or call (608)256-0565.
