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  • Reply to: Direct Democracy Tackles Fracking, GMOs, Pesticides on Election Day   10 years 1 week ago
    <p>Correct, transit is included in expenses able to be paid by the Transportation Trust Fund. But the amendment prohibits the transfer of funds to any other fund for any other purpose&nbsp;(education, environmental cleanup, etc.) "<a href="http://www.elections.state.md.us/elections/2014/ballot_questions/Summary%20question%201%20-%20Chapter%20422%20of%202013.pdf" target="_blank">unless</a> the Governor declares a fiscal emergency by executive&nbsp;order and the General Assembly passes legislation by a supermajority vote approving a different&nbsp;use or a transfer of the funds":</p> <p>From <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140423160341/http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2013RS/bills/sb/sb0829e.pdf" target="_blank">the bill</a>: "establish a&nbsp;Transportation Trust Fund to be used only for purposes relating to&nbsp;transportation except under certain circumstances; prohibiting the transfer of&nbsp;funds in the Transportation Trust Fund to the General Fund or a special fund of&nbsp;the State except under certain circumstances"</p> <p>And from the <a href="http://www.elections.state.md.us/elections/2014/ballot_questions/Summary%20question%201%20-%20Chapter%20422%20of%202013.pdf" target="_blank">ballot question</a>: "The Transportation Trust Fund is used to finance operating and capital&nbsp;expenses for highway, transit, aviation, port, and motor vehicle services and projects."</p>
  • Reply to: Fat on Restaurant Cash, Democratic Lawmakers Float Minimum Wage Preemption in IL   10 years 1 week ago
    I cannot believe the democrats are stooping to GOP tactics!! Whoever these clowns are, they need a come to calling and in a very large way!! I am going to look these egregious "people" up and give them a what's what!! Please all do the same. It only takes a few minutes and is much more powerful than you can imagine!!
  • Reply to: Broad Coalition Supports Petition to Protect Monarch Butterflies   10 years 1 week ago
    The monarch butterfly should have been designated the national insect decades ago.
  • Reply to: Meet Wisconsin's Wacky New Congressman   10 years 1 week ago
    "Wacky"'s not the adjective I'd employ to describe this hateful bastard, anymore than I'd label the state's response to the Ferguson protests as "screwy". Let's call him what he is A stone sociopath.
  • Reply to: Fat on Restaurant Cash, Democratic Lawmakers Float Minimum Wage Preemption in IL   10 years 1 week ago
    Mendacity on the menu

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