McCain hammers Napa flood control contract

[Adsos Letter]

Source: Napa Valley Register
By JILLIAN JONES
Register Staff Writer

A $54 million government award to relocate Napa Valley Wine Train tracks has come under fire by Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Tom Coburn, R-Okla., as proof that the federal stimulus package is riddled with waste.

The multi-million dollar contract rings in at no. 11 on a list of 100 projects deemed by McCain and Coburn to be “wasteful or silly.”
The Napa project is one of only three in the Bay Area criticized in the report issued this week, titled “Stimulus Checkup.”

McCain and Coburn also question the decision to spend $2.2 million in federal funds on water recycling at Sharp Park golf course in Pacifica, and a similar project at Lone Tree Golf Course in Antioch.

In total, the relocation of Wine Train tracks will cost $65 million in federal money, including the $54 million stimulus award. The funding is part of the larger $99.5 million in stimulus funds awarded to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for Napa’s flood control project.

Link: http://www.napavalleyregister.com/articles/2009/12/11/news/local/doc4b21dd5ede26c887163970.txt

[pinto]

1. McCain's just grandstanding on this, imo. n/t

[Auggie]

2. A "shoot-from-the-hip, reckless comment..."

Blue dog Mike Thompson (D-CA) finds a spine