U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx wrote a blog this week commemorating the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a "Dream" speech. The former Charlotte mayor wrote about the role transportation has played in the Civil Rights movement, including Rosa Park's celebrated bus ride in Montgomery.He went on to tout the Obama administration's investments in transportation infrastructure.
But in commemorating history, did Foxx rewrite it? Here's part of his blog:
"And when I was Mayor of Charlotte, I fought to bring a streetcar system to our city. The whole community got behind it. That streetcar is the first effort in Charlotte’s recent history to connect a poor part of the city with modern transit."
The proposed streetcar - dubbed the "Gold Line" - certainly has its proponents. But to say the whole community got behind it seems to forget resistance from some on the city council, and not just the Republicans. Even some Democrats were reluctant to support it. That was one reason Foxx's proposed capital plan didn't pass the first time around.
After some initial bumps, the streetcar is on track.
66 comments:
Wow! I would bet if polling were ever done on the Street Car a huge majority would be against it. It makes no sense. Light Rail Yes, Street Car NO.
The best place for light rail is down the Independence Blvd. corridor. It would help resolve some traffic problems and revitalize a once thriving area.
Buses that "look" like trains will never do the trick.
Liar Liar Pants on Fire! If by "everybody" you mean me... Heck No!!!!! It's the Folly Trolley!
Foxx went to Washington DC and got close to the other fellow who just can't seem to tell the truth and it must have rubbed off on him.
What are you kidding me? Everyone is not behind it. Period, enough say!
I see former Mayor Fixxit has been in Washington only a few weeks and already has learned how to tell the big lie.
No, "everybody" did NOT get behind this worthless, useless streetcar to nowhere.
It' is another in a long line of boondoggles in this area and will be a complete waste of money.
Complete BS
I trust the editorial page editors will comment on this. Oh wait, he's a democrat. O-pinion is only going after Republicans right now.
Jim, Could you give us a link to Foxx's blog?
I didn't realize that that many poor lived between CPCC and Presbyterian hospital?
I love listening to people who are less than honest calling other people liars.
"I trust the editorial page editors will comment on this. Oh wait, he's a democrat. O-pinion is only going after Republicans right now. "
I guess you didn't notice they published THIS.
Reread what Foxx wrote: He didn't say everybody got behind the streetcar project. He said "the WHOLE COMMUNITY got behind it." That's true. If you were against it, you obviously weren't part of the community Foxx was referring to.
Anonymous 8:02: Here's the link http://www.dot.gov/fastlane/transportation-and-opportunity-50th-anniversary-march-washington
This man has done more to turn me against Charlotte and North Carolina Dems -- and the Charlotte Observer--than anyone. And, I have not one iota of respect for Obama for appointing someone so unqualified to a cabinet post. Mel Watt was much more deserving. Foxx is a blowhard, a do-nothing and an arrogant, self- serving politician who has done much to divide Charlotte along racial lines. He stoked the fires to get his ride to DC going. Now that he is there, I hope he will stay far, far away from North Carolina.
His tantrum about not being reimbursed for a first class ticket to China told me everything I needed to know about this prickly, spoiled brat. You would have thought city policy had relegated him to the back of the bus.
Sorry, anonymous 5:00 PM, this is not the editorial page. This is the Campaign Tracker. Editorial page editors did not write this. They have attacked Republicans relentlessly on the editorial page and in fact imply that Pat McCrory is a liar in an editorial just posted this evening. I was just hoping they might mention Foxx's "misrepresentation" sometime soon.
You do not need to imply that
Pat McCrory lies. He does just like
the other politicians from any party.
We are the idiots that allow them to get away with the lies and divide us
along social/racial lines and in any way possible.....They all look out for each other,regardless of race or
political affiliation.
So how come none of you have left a comment on the DOT blog? Or are they censoring it over there?
Fox is living in his own dream land.
During the submittal process for the federal grant BOTH the Observer and the Charlotte Post posted online polls asking about support for the street car. Both polls were almost unanimous in a two to one position AGAINST the street car.
http://www.dot.gov/fastlane/transportation-and-opportunity-50th-anniversary-march-washington#comment-2281......I posted a comment there, wonder if the moderator will actually let it appear....don't see any other comments....
This isn't a blog about Syria. Stick to the subject or keep your comments to yourself.
Yo Gomer,
Yo stupid streetcar is done. Stick a fork in it. Deal with it.
Deleting much? This is a media outlet idiot. You still draw a paycheck? We need to talk. You have way to much dead wt espec in that sports dept burning pixels on that retarded sleezy NFL outfit.
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Pathetic house boy skinny homo on his knees groveling to bomb his beloved rebel AQ enemies so he wont have to take blame.
The world mocks this emasculated fem with soft manicured hands who never avoids a photo opt on runways to throw his coat over his shoulder with one finger.
Bush and Reagan in jeans both shown on horses with chainsaws doing a mans work cleaning up or building fences getting their hands dirty.
Obama takes 100 million vacation strolls on beaches holding hands with his faggots and obv has a vagina. Those are not his 2 kids.
http://www.wtsp.com/news/national/article/333790/81/Professor-pulled-from-classroom-after-rant-against-GOP
DANGER!!!
Highly flamable liberal homo white college professor attacking Republicans in classroom and goes on a rant having to be forcibly removed from his lunatic ravings by police at Mich St U.
Like Obama has proven many times you could be the next victim of a wet noodle whipping ...
Dont fear the Reaper ...
***FEAR THE CREEPYASSCRACKA ***
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Obama and his homosexually forced pedophiles gonna try to attack and destroy the new christan Trail Life USA launched this week as an alternation to fags molesting your young boys?
Great going guys. Obama is a total mental sicko freak show of nature with his forced sick perversions trying to make normal that which is are abnormal and corruption of youth and adults. Obama apparently didnt have his head stuffed down toilets enough as a homosexual in school.
JUST SAY NO NO NO TO SICKO CREEPYASSCRACKA OBAMA !!!!
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Whoot there it is !!
Terrorist Al Quaeda rebels take christian town in Syria.
Obama is the
AQ leader in the WH and needs to be arrested immediately.
Obama will order his AQ rebels to slaughter entire christian town like he did in Benghazi, Ft Hood and Boston that was intended to kill 100s.
Time to impeach and arrest Democrat terrorist traitors.
http://nodisinfo.com/Home/aug-21-syria-gas-attack-videos-fake/
Clearly the WH rebel leader and his Al Quaeda have staged fake gas attacks. How convenient to have tv showing phony jerking kids & fake dead wrapped up mannequins.
Obama clearly on steroids wanting all out war with Xian Amerika & his 1.5 billion muslims knowing mass suicide attacks, airport takeovers and take down Wall St to destroy this nation.
Benghazi was only a warm up and spying with 1500 drones to kill Americans.
Any truth mullah Obama has secretly ordered billions of new Qurans printed and stored in secret warehouses?
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/09/world/middleeast/obama-tests-limits-of-power-in-syrian-conflict.html?hp&_r=0
Even the worlds foremost liberal rag NYT is highly skeptical of this skinny menace tyrant enemy within testing his powers knowing his days are dwindling down and does not want to lose power.
This fascist communist socialist nazi muslim AQ leader in the WH who clearly used the ancient 3500 yr old Chinese progressive forward wheel used by Adolph Hitler for his 1933 National Socialist Workers Party (NAZI) does not want to give up power.
For America to survive this massive criminal liberal Marxist Nazi onslaught Republican conservatives MUST take both houses in 2014.
Lying murdering treasonous snake Obama clearly rigged the 4 deaths at Benghazi with his AQ henchmen as test of his secretive powers and then failed to lie his way out of it but liberals still back him.
He is clearly up to something in Syria and is the one who ordered the chemical weapon attacks that were part or all faked.
Clearly this murdering liar is hell bent on an attack with ominous intentions using the US military for his own internal reasons.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/09/06/mccain-obama-would-face-impeachment-if-he-puts-boots-on-the-ground-in-syria/
Even the other lib rag WP knows AQ leader Obama up to his evil tricks as McCain calling for impeachment.
http://www.meforum.org/3532/muslim-persecution-of-christians-march-2013
Millions of Xs the world over murdered by muslim jihadists since Obama took over in 2008.
Thank you Mr Eastwood.
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/9/intel-clashes-obamas-election-year-al-qaeda-claims/
Terrorist muslim peeping tom homo pedo promoter perv Trayvon killer Obama lies again as even his own intelligence NSA says his jihadist AQ were fully alive and kicking and killing at will.
If Al Qaeda leader Obama lips are moving he is lying 100% rigging the Benghazi attack from the Oval Office with his feet on the desk.
Liberals who voted for Al Queada are all traitors guilt of treason and need to be arrested.
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99% of all jail birds and violent criminals in America wear Obama t-shirts with his pic on the front.
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So the idiot muslim al quaeda in the White House who won a Nobel Peace Prize before he took office for nothing is pretending to tell Putin what to do who saved his pathetic dumb ass?
This skinny nerdy wimp is intelligent? His IQ is room temp at best.
Putin and world laugh at this clueless pathetic democrackhead liberal pretender with a vagina lezbo cross dresser.
http://news.yahoo.com/child-bride-yemen-dies-internal-bleeding-wedding-night-165832059.html
Typical Obama pagan dog meat eater Sharia muslim lifestyle as 8 yr old child forced to marry 40 yr old male.
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Peeping Tom weakling muslim skinny nerd terrorist Obama has LIED to America for over 4.5 yrs while running up 18 trillion debt.
Who is spying on the real terrorist in the WH and his AG pos Holder?
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/5/christian-baker-hounded-gays-close-shop-my-faith-g/
Very dangerous threatening homosexual terrorists terrorize Xian business. Femi-nazi radical militant bull dyke homosexuals damage capitalist enterprise. Never elect a creepyasscracka homosexual muslim socialist who promotes sodomite polices.
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Does Obama look ignorant stupid dumb with below room temp retarded IQ or what to the entire world?
Even muslims do not claim him now and are embarrassed.
Bush? Although Bush tried to be a Texas cowpoke he was educated with his BA at Yale and MA at Harvard and looks like Einstein beside this phony baloney.
Xian Putin is running the world show now and is the world genius. Obama is a sideshow clown act.
The creme always rises to the top.
Isnt it tell tale how rookie nobody Obama called America just an average joe blow nation in 2008 and has tried his best to destroy the superiority of 230 yrs of America?
Yet when it comes to NBA or NFL sports ONLY the superior product is demanded? So nations dont count except when you want to bully them like Obama is doing Assad?
Obama is the absolute worst thing to ever happen to America and 18 trillion in debt with 50% qualified for Medicaid and 78% latinos in NYC alone?
Yet he wants to legalize what would become 100 million latinos?
Clearly he is either of retarded IQ or he wants to destroy America and an enemy of the state.
Who is suffering worse but black American citizens who put him in office while he yucks it up living like a king. Obama is laughing his ass off behind their backs and where is that 8 trillion overrun stashed he stole? Caribbean banks Fidel National or Chavez S&L?
The bigger rhetorical question is can America survive 3.5 more yrs with this idiot at the helm?
Pity the poor fool who has to clean up Obama's mess in 2016.
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PUTIN THE EX-KGB DIRTY HANDS LAWYER EX NAVY FIGHTER PILOT TOUGH GUY
LAUGHS AND MOCKS AT SKINNY HOMO FEM VACATION BOY WORLD JOKE WITH MANICURED NAILS WHO HAS NEVER GOTTEN HIS YUPPIE LIL SOFT HANDS DIRTY...
VOGUE ... STRIKE A POSE ON THE WORLDS AIRPORT RUNWAY WITH THE BILL BLASS COAT THROWN OVER THE SHOULDER WITH ONE FINGER ...
THE WORLD MOCKS THIS KARDASHIAN "THE VIEW" WUSSY ...
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Hollywood actor not happy with Obama the peeping tom peeping on 300 million legal citizens and sharing all the info with nations like Israel without permission.
This goes beyond US citizens 4th Amendment rights of privacy.
IMPEACH THE PEEPING TOM
http://www.eppc.org/publications/regionalism-obamas-quiet-anti-suburban-revolution/
Liberal from hell socialist Obama and his HUD Sec 8 quietly attempt to rezone all of America forcibly to destroy the suburbs or face federal cutoffs in order to redistribute wealth to the poverty stricken major cities.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/13/politics/us-syria/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
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AL QUAEDA OBAMA HAS BEEN OUTED ANYWAY SINCE HE rigged BENGHAZI
PUTIN WITH HIS 15k nukes AND ASSAD ARE LAUGHING LIKE THEIR azz OFF AT FUMBLING BUMBLING puzzyboy BOZO IN THE WH...
WHO KNEW AL QUAEDA WAS full OF fags
OBAMA ONLY A peeper WHO SPIES ON AMERIKANS IN THEIR BATHROOMS AND BEDROOMS ...
HIS WIFE michelle CUT HIM OFF 10-15 YRS AGO but who can blame her..
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BLUFF ALERT !!!!
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http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/its-all-smoke-and-whiskey/2013/sep/13/why-arming-syrian-rebels-disarming-american-gun-ow/
Muhammed Obama the most merciful who replaces Allah ( pronounced as I Lie)
oddly as the #1 treasonous traitor in US history arms his al-Quida muslim rebels in Syria yet has spent 5 years with his racist AG Eric Holder trying to steal US citizen 2nd amendment rights and also tried to reduce its nuclear arsenal to nil.
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http://beforeitsnews.com/international/2013/09/putin-got-obama-off-a-hook-of-his-own-making-2468126.html
What an idiot Obama is. Putin saves the day.
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/edge-precipice/2013/sep/13/wall-street-republicans-take-heed-cry-poor/
Republicans turning the table on Wall St Obama who has been sinking 85 billion per month into Wall St to keep it afloat and may help the poor.
That 1.2 trillion annually is not counted towards the debt thus the real national debt is 23 trillion.
In other words this moronic incompetent has run up 13 trillion debt over and above since 2008 taking over a 10 trillion debt under Bush.
In only 5 yrs Obama who promised to cut the 10 trillion debt by 50% after his 1st term to 5 trillion has more than doubled. Incredible.
Rogue Occupy Wall Street libs gave their WH rogue a free pass.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/09/syrian_minister_declares_victory_thanks_russia.html
SYRIA DECLARES COMPLETE VICTORY OVER WEAK EMASCULATED FEM OBAMA ...
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/16/justice/police-shootings/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
Clearly the NC situation is a direct result of the highly questionable Trayvon Martin situation and Charlotte Police Chief Rodney Monroe and Meck DA acted prematurely to charge an officer with Voluntary Manslaughter only 19 hrs after the incomplete investigation.
This was clearly a racist RUSH TO JUDGEMENT on a white CMPD officer by the police chief as CNN reported and media picked up sniffing out.
1) Why did the ex-football player wreck his car? Speeding?
2) Was he on drugs?
3) Why did he bang on a house at 2:30 AM frightening the female occupant?
4) Why did he physically charge the CMPD officer?
5) Why did he not heed commands to stop? He wasnt so injured that he could walk or run 1/2 mile to the home and then charge the office and withstand a tasar.
Clearly the CMPD is practicing racism to appease and Monroe needs to be investigated and terminate Monroe for false premature charges to apparently "nip it in the bud".
The NYC case involved a convicted felon with a long rap sheet.
The racist liberal mass media is now running police departments nationwide and dictating policy that is clearly a danger to the public.
Oddy enough Chief Monroe who lied about his college degree did not charge a black office officer who did not have the right to shoot and kill a white cell phone repairman on Albemarle Rd several yrs ago. The investgation took weeks or months NOT 19 hours. Racism?
Its not like multiple white police officers in Charlotte have not been gunned down by black criminals in the past and at 3AM officers have no time to reason with a large size individual undoubedly drugged out charging them refusing to stop after being tased.
THE MAIN RHETORICAL QUESTION? IS THE CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT AND POLICE CHIEF OR DA INHERENTLY RACIST ONLY APPEASING THE MASS MEDIA OR CERTAIN GROUPS JEOPARDIZING THE SAFETY OF ALL CITIZENS?
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HONORABLE PAT MCCRORY GOVERNOR
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/16/world/middleeast/deal-represents-turn-for-syria-rebels-deflated.html?hp&_r=0
Excellent news for a change. Due to utter complete Obama incompetence ignorance and stupidity his al-Quida terrorist Sunni muslim rebel forces in Syria who have beheaded 100s of America troops in Iraq and responsible 911 and 4500 US military deaths, 500,000 US injuries, 2 trillion and the economy. Obama's terrorist Rebels have been deflated and on the run after using chemical weapons on their own people to trick the world.
We are aware in 911 that then IL state legislator Obama was opposed to killing these Sunni al-Quida murderers and going to war against his people and rigged the Benghazi US embassy attacks and deaths and lied about it with Clinton and Rice and all liberal traitors.
BRAVO TO SUPERIOR SYRIAN PRESIDENT ASSAD AND RUSSIAN PRESIDENT PUTIN FOR DEFEATING THE ENEMY REBEL TERRORISTS IN SYRIA AND THE WHITE HOUSE WHO USE WMD AND BLAME OTHERS.
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