Citizens Against Government Waste Blasts Alcee Hastings and Debbie Wasserman Schultz for Pork Project

Citizens Against Government Waste is taking aim at two members of the U.S. House delegation from Florida in its newest Pork Alert. Looking at the 2011 proposed budget for the federal Department of Transportation and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the group included the following jab at two Florida Democrats:

$1.75 million by House appropriator Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) and Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) for the Downtown Transit Corridor Program for the Downtown Circulator in Fort Lauderdale. The project, which is called The Wave, promises a 2.7-mile streetcar system in the city that is estimated to cost $124.34 million, or $46 million per mile. Wave goodbye to those tax dollars.