Both Sides Rail on About High-Speed Ruling; Scott Touts 30,000 New Jobs

Submitted by Anonymous on March 4, 2011 - 1:46pm

While state Sen. Paula Dockery was bitterly tweeting her "congrats" to New York and California as prospective recipients of federal high-speed rail money turned down by Rick Scott, the governor was busy creating new jobs in South Florida.

The governor announced that the state has allocated $77 million to complete dredging at the port of Miami, enabling the port to accommodate super-sized ships that will be coming through a widened Panama Canal.

Spokesman Brian Burgess said the governor was delivering a better return on investment:

"$77 million to create 30,000 jobs and rejecting a $2.4 billion 'ObamaTrain' for 600 permanent jobs," Burgess advised.

An anti-rail group called Scott's court-sanctioned derailment of the proposed Orlando-Tampa bullet train a "huge victory for the taxpayers of Florida."

"SunRail is next," said Doug Guetzloe, founder of Ax the Tax and consultant for the Florida TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party.

"The separation of power lives in the state of Florida!" Punta Gorda tea party activist Robin Stublen said after the state Supreme Court unanimously threw out a lawsuit that attempted to overturn Scott's rail decision.

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