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The Proposed Bridge To Gravina
by Don Hoff Jr
June 26, 2004
Saturday
This is from an article from the Knoxville, TN Newspaper about
the proposed bridge to Gravina Island via Pennock Island. There
have been other similar articles from New York, Utah, Florida,
Kentucky and Tennessee about the pork barrel spending from U.S.
Rep. Don Young and U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens representing representing
Alaska.
We don't need to spend $230 million of my Federal Tax dollars
on a bridge to No-where in
Ketchikan, Alaska. Just a reminder that Pennock Island is an
active Alaskan Native graveyard protected by the Federal Government.
Federal Laws protecting our Indian graves from being desecrated
by anybody. It would seem that U.S. Rep. Don Young, U.S. Sen.Ted
Stevens and U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski think that they are above
the laws of the United States. Whom really wants this boondoggle
bridge to Gravina Island via Pennock Island anyway? Whom will
gain from this bridge? These few people that want the bridge
don t care about the common person and that you are going to
be in debt up to our ears paying for the bridge and maintenance
work
forever.
GOVERNMENT IN ACTION
Alaska is reputed to be
the state most laden with congressional overspending (thanks
to its powerful U.S. Rep. Don Young and U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens),
and an April New York Times dispatch described two proposed,
marginally useful bridges for the state that will eventually
cost taxpayers more than $2.2 billion. One, almost as big as
the Golden Gate bridge, would connect Ketchikan (pop. 7,800)
with a 50-resident island and the town s modest airport (and
would replace a five-minute ferry boat ride), and the other,
a 2-mile-long span, would connect Anchorage, according to the
Times, to a port that has a single regular tenant and almost
no homes or businesses.
I often wonder who is pulling
Young, Stevens and Murkowski strings? Why are they so
determine to ram a $230 million dollar bridge down our throats.
We don't really need a ugly bridge. This is my own opinion
shared by others around the United States of America.
Don Hoff Jr.
Aan Kadax Tseen
Gaanax adi Clan
Yei l hit
Taan ta Kwaan
E-mail: Unukriver@aol.com
Hixson, TN - USA
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