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More important than foie gras
Submitted by Rick on Tue, 01/24/2006 - 1:14pm.

Brendan Williams gets down to brass tacks. From the Olympian:

A pair of Democrats propose to end funding for a Lewis County project included in last year’s massive gasoline-tax financed package — because the rail line in question has already been built.

Reps. Geoff Simpson of Covington and Brendan Williams of Olympia want to pull $3 million in tax dollars that are marked to buy a short rail line from TransAlta, a Canadian-based energy company with a power plant near Centralia.

“I think it’s ridiculous for the state to reimburse a multinational energy conglomerate for an expense that it’s already incurred,

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