Monday, December 19, 2011

Loretta Sanchez's Latest Rant- High Speed Rail

This week, LA talk-jocks John and Ken (KFI 640 am) played an audiotape of Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez's testimony at the Transportation Committee in Washington. The issue at question was California's high speed rail proposal, something nobody needs and nobody can afford. Miss Sanchez had earlier learned of an accident on an LA freeway involving a large truck and a resultant fire under a freeway bridge that stalled LA traffic (What else is new?). Sanchez, in her rant, tried to make the case that we need high-speed rail to eliminate these traffic problems when trucks flip over. In referring to the accident, she gets all the data wrong, time, day, you name it. Anyway, here it is. Click the below link and scroll down to  Loretta Sanchez 6PM 12/15. It's classic.


http://www.kfiam640.com/podcast/JohnandKen.xml

What really shocked me is that Sanchez is a pilot!



"This is your Flight Captain Sanchez. We are now beginning our ascent over the Atlantic en route to Paris..." 
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2 comments:

  1. Bartender CabbieDecember 20, 2011 at 5:24 AM

    We have our Sanchez here in the Houston area that goes by the name of Sheila Jackson Lee. I will trade you one Sanchez for a Lee. Well maybe not.

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  2. Siarlys JenkinsDecember 20, 2011 at 5:32 PM

    I gave up on Ms. Lee after a report that she had imperiously announced "I'm a queen, and I expect to be treated like one." I'm sort of old school... when I think about how a queen should be treated, I think of Marie Antoinette. It's a Republican principal.

    But when it comes to high speed rail, the more cars it keeps off the freeways, the less congestion, the fewer accidents, and the more alternative options if something shuts the freeways down. When the Bay Bridge went down in 1989, commuters totally depended on BART until it could be repaired. Maybe BART was another system nobody can afford and nobody needs?

    Los Angeles had an excellent inter-urban rail system, until General Motors bought it up, for the purpose of dismantling it, so everyone would buy cars, and the government would build oodles of freeways for them to drive on.

    I dream of high speed rail zipping past commuters stuck in traffic jams. That will get people into the trains -- if we can get them built.

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