Lars Larson: Boondoggle Bridge bozos offer BS

By Lars Larson
NW and national radio host,

The Northwest Nonsense

If you tolerate lies and dishonesty from the government, you’re guaranteed more.

Think about that as you absorb today’s news that government officials from Oregon and Washington have REFUSED to tell the people’s representatives the estimated cost of the Interstate Bridge Replacement.

A dozen years ago, these cheats promised lawmakers in both states the bridge would cost 3.5 to maybe 5 billion.

Then just a few years later, before the inflation of the Biden years, the cost jumped…5 billion to maybe 7.5 billion. That was 2022.

Since then, these so-called “public servants” running the Bridge Replacement have refused to tell taxpayers their new cost estimate! Representative John Ley has been dogging this for years, but he can’t get the answer we all want.

The guy running the show, Greg Johnson, just announced he’s leaving his 300-thousand dollar a year job as captain of this financial Titanic.

I figure Johnson knows the new number will hit 10 billion or more…nearly three times the cost 12 years ago so he’s getting off the boat before it sinks.

Now, do you have any doubt, if you worked for a company, ramrodding a project, and the boss asked for a cost estimate and you told him “no”, that you’d be looking at a fresh pink slip?

Only government doesn’t work that way round here

That’s the Rose City Rap. Join me at noon on KXL for 4 hours of Honestly provocative talk. I’m Lars Larson