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- From: rosinski@isis.cgd.ucar.edu (Jim Rosinski)
- Subject: Re: Pena picked for Transportation???
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.180643.3862@ncar.ucar.edu>
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- Organization: Climate and Global Dynamics Division/NCAR, Boulder, CO
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 18:06:43 GMT
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- In reference to former Denver mayor Frederico Pena's selection as Clinton's
- Secretary of Transportation, Dick Dunn writes:
-
- >Wonderful. Pena is the driving force behind Denver International Airport--
- >the biggest, dumbest boondoggle in the state's history.
- >
- >The new Secretary of Transportation will be the guy who drove the planning
- >of a major international airport...without planning any roads to get to it!
- >It replaces one of the most efficient, closest large-city airports in the
- >country with one of the most distant, for no reason better than a sacrifice
- >to the almighty god Growth. (Bad-weather air traffic delays at Stapleton
- >will simply be replaced with bad-weather ground-transportation delays.)
-
- My conclusions are the same (I am *not* thrilled at Pena's selection), but
- for different reasons. Firstly, I think the choice to build the airport
- was based more on "It means jobs and federal dollars for Colorado--who cares
- whether it's needed or not", rather than "Growth for the sake of growth is
- good".
-
- Secondly, I found the hype both on the local news and in the newspaper (RMN)
- to be nothing short of *nauseating*. On channel 4 news, they flat out said
- that the selection of Pena was a good thing because it meant a greater chance
- that more federal dollars would be "funnelled Colorado's way". The Rocky
- Mountain News implied as much with it's bold headline and glowing aticle,
- crowing about how "good for Colorado" this was. There is no doubt that
- 'This is the way politics works'. I don't have to like or respect it though.
-
- As to Dick's statement that "Bad-weather air traffic delays at Stapleton
- will simply be replaced with bad-weather ground-transportation delays", I'm
- not even that optimistic. Though a wider runway separation will mean less
- chance of having to close some runways in bad weather, the area of DIA is
- statistically more prone to severe weather than Stapleton.
-
- >Bad move, Bill. I hope the other cabinet appointments make more sense than
- >this one...
-
- Robert Reich, with his neo-Keynsian theories of massive government
- intervention in the economy, is running neck-and-neck with leftist Donna
- Shalala for the title of "Scariest Clinton appointment". Of course Tom
- Mayer would say something like: "To you Jim, everyone left of Ronald Regan
- is a 'leftist'". Everyone has an opinion, particularly on Usenet.
-
-
- Jim Rosinski
-