I read in The Columbian that the county will now give its fair share of funding to the CREDC. I actually thought that the funding had been restored with the demise of the Columbia River Crossing. Councilors David Madore and Tom Mielke still voted against this. What are these clowns thinking?
The CREDC is a great organization that promotes jobs for the whole region. They were politically motivated to cut funding because of the CREDC’s support of the CRC. Well, that was the CREDC’s job, to promote the CRC. It would produce jobs building it and, more importantly, bring jobs into the region because of much better movement of transportation between the two states.
If not for Madore, Mielke, Sen. Don Benton, R-Vancouver, Rep. Liz Pike, R-Camas, Sen. Ann Rivers, R-La Center, and U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Camas, we would be well on our way to a very much needed transportation infrastructure. They collectively put this region in a continued poor situation for at least another decade. Commuters, guess what? It’s only going to get worse.
Mielke is retiring, a very good thing, and Madore will be resoundingly defeated at the polls. The rest of the culprits need to go also. Then and only then will common sense again rule the day in Clark County.
