Yep, still unwinding the stack and will be for quite some time. Couldn’t let this one go by without a quick thought and glad to see that Chris Sununu put a stake into this gawd-awful idea that Republican (you know, the Party of LESSER and cheaper government??) Executive Councilor Russell Prescott wanted to raise the tolls simply to speed up already planned highway fixes (if you’d stop raiding the Highway fund* you’da been there by now):
Gov. Sununu says he won’t allow highway toll increase
Gov. Chris Sununu on Thursday blocked an attempt to raise tolls on the state’s highways. “Dragging this process out is not productive,” Sununu said in a statement. “As such, I will not allow this toll increase to move forward.” Executive councilors and Department of Transportation managers had agreed to submit the toll increase as an item at the next council meeting on Jan. 10. “Had the council ultimately voted in favor of toll increases, I would have negated their vote,” he said.
Executive Councilors Russell Prescott, R-Kingston, Chris Pappas, D-Manchester and Andru Volinsky, D-Concord, all have supported the toll hikes.
Once again, a Republican going over to the Dark Side (and siding with the vehemently anti-Christian Andru Volinsky who thinks he can Alinsky people just like Senate Democrats in banging on those of faith that have been appointed by President Trump – and he hates being called anti-Christian / anti-religious; wanna debate this, Andru??) and leaving their principles by the side of the road. I had heard that he was going to do this before the story broke – glad to see that the story broke him.
(H/T: Union Leader)
[Art.] 6-a. [Use of Certain Revenues Restricted to Highways.] All revenue in excess of the necessary cost of collection and administration accruing to the state from registration fees, operators’ licenses, gasoline road tolls or any other special charges or taxes with respect to the operation of motor vehicles or the sale or consumption of motor vehicle fuels shall be appropriated and used exclusively for the construction, reconstruction and maintenance of public highways within this state, including the supervision of traffic thereon and payment of the interest and principal of obligations incurred for said purposes; and no part of such revenues shall, by transfer of funds or otherwise, be diverted to any other purpose whatsoever.
As I heard on the radio this morning: “it’s not like we need a new Constitution, we just need politicians to read the one we got.”
