Pawlenty announces transportation projects from the stimulus bill
Gov. Pawlenty and MnDOT Commissioner Tom Sorel released the list of transportation projects that will start in Greater Minnesota as a result of the federal stimulus bill. Here's the list of projects and a map.
Pawlenty and Sorel are flying around the state today to announce the porjects. Pawlenty has voiced his opposition to the federal stimulus bill but said during a stop in Rochester that he supported the capital investment projects in the bill:
"I suggested that the bill could have been improved by making that part of the bill even bigger. So our support and excitement and encouragement of these kinds of projects is what I thought would be a good stimulus approach for the economy."
DFLers aren't too pleased with Pawlenty's approach. Here's a statement released from DFL House Majority Leader Tony Sertich:
"The Governor is flying around Minnesota on state taxpayer dollars bragging about spending federal taxpayer dollars. This is funding he didn't want. It's ironic coming from a chief executive who vetoed state transportation bills several times."
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