Is he running for mayor of Madison?
Madison's snow-covered roads (WKOW)
First Jeff Scrima wants to snow plow the bike paths. Now he wants to cut the amount of salt we use on the roads.
“I’m not an expert on this, but I do wonder if our roads are oversalted,” Scrima said to the small crowd gathered around him. “Salt erodes roads faster than anything. I suspect there are other methods that can be used.”
Maybe we can put heating coils under the roads, just like the ones they use at Lambeau Field.
Wait, wait, I’ve got it. Every time it snows, everyone will fill their cars and trucks with the snow and drive it to the nearest quarry. Then, when the snow melts, we’ll have plenty of fresh water. Won’t it be great?
Here’s to a glass of fresh storm sewer run off from Milwaukee roads, prosit!
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Hmmm, he calls himself a conservitive in the weeks before the election, yet spouts off the wierdest liberal sh##. …Must really be a modern day republican, ay?
Way to go Waukesha…
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Would anybody else like a “Re-elect Larry Nelson” sign for their front yard?
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I might take you up on that.
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While I agree, plowing bike paths is rediculous.
Some roads do get way too much salt dumped on them, which does cause them to erode noticeably faster.
I also don’t see how recommending less salt usage is anything but a fiscally conservative idea. Less sat used, means less salt bought, and less road repair needed.
Yes it may require some alternate method to aid the less salt, but until we look we won’t know if it would be a higher cost. Personally I am sick of replacing tires way to early because they get a nice bulge on the side wall from hitting a massive pothole in spring.
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There is a young broad named Sarah something who is reporting for The Freeman on the mayoral election. She has done a great job of reporting about half of what Jeff Scrima says.
The half that she leaves out has been the part that elicits some of the more moronic reactions.
As far as plowing bike paths, Jeff was making the point that he wanted to downsize the Waukesha transit system and make it more efficient. He cited Madison as a city that has done that and has even encouraged bicyle use by plowing some paths in the winter. HE DID NOT CALL FOR WAUKESHA TO DO THE SAME.
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James Wigderson Reply:
March 9th, 2010 at 10:52 pm
Geez, BT, you forget I was there when he said it. I reported it. He said it. You don’t like it, go talk to the candidate.
BTW, calling a young lady a “broad” is not exactly going to endear your candidate to women voters.
As for the supposed “moronic” reactions, if the candidate stops saying moronic things, maybe he would get less of a reaction. I am not responsible for what a candidate says – he is.
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Today, that same reporter from The Freeman did a public service by reporting the wet-sloppy kiss (gee I hope that that imagery does not offend you Wiggy) that slick Willie Hines from Milwaukee sent to lefty Larry. That alone should send many voters running to the polls on 4/6 to send croc man back to the Waukesha Public Schools.
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James Wigderson Reply:
March 9th, 2010 at 11:22 pm
Then why are complaining about her reporting?
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“I also don’t see how recommending less salt usage is anything but a fiscally conservative idea. Less sat used, means less salt bought, and less road repair needed.”
Not exactly, unless you and Scrima are the final arbiters of what is “conservative.” I suppose, in a myopic way, yes, that is conservative.
But alas, less salt on the road translates to a slowing of commerce – deliveries are delayed, less traffic at Waukesha State Bank, fewer dollars spent on art (like Scrima said he wants to direct city resources to). Your comment gives away the same failed logic behind federal stimulus dollars – that the economy and conservative ideology rises and falls on commensurate government spending.
However, the mobility of goods, services, and capital is a greater multiplier through a local economy than the money saved by government and more than offsets those costs on increased use of salt.
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