Old foes both bash light-rail "pork train"
Gary Pearce, former Jim Hunt political adviser, and Carter Wrenn, a one-time Jesse Helms protege, have teamed up on a Raleigh-based blog called Talking About Politics. They take turns spouting off from opposite sides of the political divide.
On most issues.
Not so on the proposed Triangle light-rail project.
Both view it as a boondoggle.
In their most recent posts, Pearce takes aim at Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole for supporting federal funding of this "billion-dollar budget-buster," while Wrenn directs his fire at Raleigh's Democrat mayor, Charles Meeker, as well as Dole.
I can't wait for the commuter rail issue to get on track in the Triad. It will open the way for a lot of lively commentary.
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Gotta give Senator Dole credit for trying to bring the bacon (get it? pork...) back home to NC.
Trains are for the Northeast types who are concerned about climate change. She oughta try to build us another NASCAR facility.
Posted on December 1, 2005 4:15 PM