[PRCo] Re: PAT's cuts

[Derrick Brashear]

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Herb Brannon <hrbran at cavtel.net> wrote:
> Derrick,
> The new incoming Republican Governor of Ohio, two days after the election,
> requested the Democrat now in office to repeal all public transit funding
> and to s**tcan the Ohio High Speed Rail program immediately. Of course
> Governor Ted Strickland did not comply with the request.

Pittsburgh radio is thanks to largely corporate ownership virtually
unlistenable for
someone whose musical tastes run as mine do. Instead, for me, "radio"
means I use my cell
phone to listen to a station quartered in Columbus, a locally owned
station whose ownership
actually believes in making money the old fashioned way, by earning it.

The money Strickland told Kasich to (piss off), I heard it from their
morning show.
Despite being a station which spins music generally no older than I
am(*) all day,
they're really not just dumbed down for the lowest common denominator.

>This is the reason
> GCRTA was able to reinstate and add service after last years drastic cuts.
> The outgoing Democrat gave money, and large amounts of it, from a transit
> trust fund, to most transit agencies in Ohio. Governor Ted Strickland said
> he would rather see the money used for its intended purpose rather than
> be squandered away, in the form of "welfare for the wealthy", by the
> incoming Republican administration.

I'm guessing fast Eddie did the same to find $45m for the Port Authority today.

-- 
Derrick

(* 37. One day younger than my second wife. Three days younger than my first.)