The above links aside, when our politicians choose to not police themselves, as described in this article at the Washington Post, how can the people possibly be expected to support any decision our elected “representatives” make?

California has a gas tax.. added on to all the other gasoline taxes.. and it’s specifically to pay for transportation infrastructure, however every year that tax fund gets raided (like Social Security with the Federal Government) for whatever else is needed. The gas tax money never gets used for transportation infrastructure.

Now if Governor Kaine would’ve met his promise about giving localities more control over transportation infrastructure issues, like he promised during his campaign… then.. I might.. and that’s a big big might.. be willing to consider it.

Otherwise absolutely not.

not surprisingly the take over there is different.