We just got word that the State Legislature may have chosen NOT to include - in the first round of projects - federal stimulus funds for the Mayor's pet giveaway - the 200 million dollar-plus Mercer Corridor Project. This comes only a day after the City Council on a 6-3 vote dutifully gave authorization for the project to proceed knowing full well that full funding for the project was not in hand and in doubt. (Even with the stimulus funding, they'd have been short of the dollars but our compliant council said start digging).

By now, you all know what a boondoggle this project is. In eastbound direction it will actually make traffic worse. What a waste of these stimulus dollars - exactly what Obama told the Mayors (and our Mayor) not to do with these dollars and here it is our Mayor's first priority.

At 1:30 today the House Transportation Committee will be discussing the stimulus package. Go to this site and call them/email em ASAP and tell them you support their decision to deny stimulus funds for the Mercer project.

That it would be a colossal waste and misuse of federal stimulus funds - exactly the thing our President warned against-warned our Mayor against-and yet it's his first (and darn near only) priority.