The Truth about Pelosi’s Subway

When the 2021 COVID-19 relief bill included funding for the BART expansion to San Jose, which didn’t have much to do with the coronavirus, Republicans labeled it Pelosi’s subway. Others disputed this description, saying that the BART line was 50 miles away from Speaker Pelosi’s district. Nevertheless, the earmark has apparently been removed from the bill.

$1.7 billion spent digging a hole and filling it up.

The bill still included $1.675 billion for transit capital improvement projects, which are not obviously vital considering that transit ridership is down by 65 percent. The American Public Transportation Association has created a list of 23 projects that are eligible for these funds. The San Jose BART line is not on the list.

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This is truly Pelosi’s Subway. When the Bush administration issued new rules requiring that transit projects be cost-effective, Pelosi convinced Congress to create an exemption for the subway. She has regularly taken credit for the federal funds spent on the project. She has good reason to support it: her husband, Paul Polosi, owns a lot of property next to the project and expects that the value of this land will increase once the project is done.

The project was supposed to be done in 2018, but completion is now not expected before 2022. While the federal government normally pays no more than half the costs of such transit projects, it agreed to pay 62 percent of this one. I wonder who arranged that?

When an accountant hired by San Francisco Muni to review spending on the subway found irregularities including a $141 million discrepancy, she was ordered to ignore the problems and, when she didn’t, she lost her job. But Pelosi keeps getting re-elected to her job no matter how much money she wastes.

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2 Responses to The Truth about Pelosi’s Subway

  1. Henry Porter says:

    “Well, duh!” as my granddaughter would say. Of course she keeps getting re-elected. The people who re-elect her are the people who benefit from her corruption.

    George Bernard Shaw is supposed to have said, “A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on Paul’s support.”

    Look around. That’s what they’re all doing—Democrats and Republicans. It’s a mutual expanding game of “I got mine!” No matter who we elect, we can’t stop it.

  2. metrosucks says:

    Pelosi’s district is filled with upper-middle class and wealthy people. These people overwhelmingly voted to support Democrats and Progressives in the last election, because they are completely insulated from the outcomes of their voting patterns. It’s pure virtue signaling, and it won’t change until the economy crashes, and most likely, these Tesla-driving morons are slaughtered in the streets by the same baboons they lovingly unleashed & supported with your tax dollars, from previously safe distance.

    Tyrone simply isn’t going to care that you voted for criminal justice reform when his bennies don’t load up on his EBT card. He’s going to see you hunched down fearfully in your gleaming Tesla, and drag you out and bash in your head. Your past votes for Pelosi or some progressive boondoggle are not going to be of any concern to him, one way or another.

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