I Win For A Change

The Foothill-South Toll Road has been indefinitely delayed.

INDEFINITELY. In the words of Congressman Ken Calvert, "thanks to Reps. Susan Davis and Loretta Sanchez (D-CA), a toll road project that has been years in the making has been set back indefinitely."

I win. Trestles wins. The Juaneno win. The OC Weekly wins. Surfers win. The Donna O'Neill Land Conservancy wins. San Onofre State Beach wins. The San Mateo Campground wins. Campers win.

We all win.

From Representative Ken Calvert and his website of dreams:

WASHINGTON, DC. December 7, 2007 – Congressman Ken Calvert (R-Corona) was disappointed that the FY2008 National Defense Authorization Act included language inserted by Rep. Susan Davis (D-San Diego) to repeal federal law that allowed the Department of the Navy to grant an easement at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. The amendment was added during a late night mark up of the bill, H.R. 1585. The language represents a serious blow to two decades of work to develop a locally-preferred and environmentally sensitive route for the Foothill-South toll road. The conference report for H.R. 1585 was filed today.

Hee hee - serious BLOW. That's FUNNY, because I wrote an article about Ken Calvert allegedly getting a blowjob from a junkie prostitute. It had my favorite headline and subhead also - "OF PORK AND KEN: Local Congressman Likes Toll Roads, Money, Blowjobs. You can read it HERE on the wonderful world of www.OCWEEKLY.com, or on the Congressman's wikipedia site, and I'd provide a juicy, turgid excerpt except the Weekly's site seems to be down.

Maybe everyone's busily reading my stories now that the toll road's dead.

Calvert also had this to say:

"This language would not have seen the light of day if Rep. Sanchez, the leading Orange County Democrat, had not lent her support," said Rep. Calvert. "She understood the ramifications of the amendment and falsely claimed the project had been granted special environmental exemptions. While Rep. Davis had no right to interfere in Orange County transportation plans, the blame for this disastrous setback lays at Rep. Sanchez’s door."

And we would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids...