Let me give you another example of that. The Bay Bridge was damaged during the '89 quake and to tell you the truth, it needed to be bigger to handle the 280K cars a day anyway. The original estimate was $1B...but Jerry Brown was mayor of Oakland and Willie Brown was mayor of S.F. when things were being decided. They got into a dueling libtards battle over design and whatnots. Willie had investors (campaign contributors) in the Yerba Buena island projects and they needed access via the bridge. Moonbeam wanted a bridge design like the Golden Gate. The result is a wonderful new bridge (still not completed) that's 10 years behind schedule, $5B over budget and to top it all off, the major components were manufactured in China.

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