Union-Tribune Blogger Chris Reed Speaks Truth To Idiocy Re the 241

Chris Reed used to cover county government for the Orange County Register before moving on to become columns editor for the OCR editorial page, before joining the San Diego Union-Tribune editorial page -- where he pens "America's Finest Blog." He was a sharp, no-nonsense reporter, and is equally so as an editorialist/blogger.

H/T to liberal blogger Andrew Davey to pointing out this fine little post from Chris regarding San Diego Rep. Susan Davis' trespassing into Orange County to try and kill the 241 completion at the behest the Surfrider Foundation:

Driving on Interstate 5 from San Diego to L.A. is completely maddening. Sometimes it's only a minor ordeal. Sometimes it's a gigantic ordeal. But especially on the south Orange County stretch of the 5, traffic is ridiculous. So any effort to lessen traffic in that area would be wonderful news for the millions of us in Socal who like to go back and forth between L.A./O.C. and San Diego.

But guess who doesn't care: Rep. Susan Davis, D-San Diego. She may pretend she's just interested in proper procedure, but her congressional maneuvering dealing with the planned extension of the 241 toll road in Orange County to the 5 near Camp Pendleton is clearly meant to kill the project.

So the next time you're sitting stuck on the 5, save a few of your expletives for Susan Davis. She's earned them.

And if you're interested in reading some fine examples of Environmental Left blogging against the 241 in which the level of exaggeration, misinformation and confabulation is matched only by the certitude with which they are asserted, then visit anyone one of young Andrew Davey's posts on his blog or lefty-blog Calitics. But he tries.

Comments

[Andrew Davey]

Thanks, Matt/Jubal! I'll just take this as a compliment, as annoying right-wing pundits with the FACTS means that I'm doing my job, and I'm doing it well. Sure, please invite folks to read my stories at Calitics.

Wait, I should make it easier...
Everyone here is invited to read ALL MY STORIES on extending the 241 to San Onofre, and they can decide for themselves who's dealing with the facts and who's making up fiction. That should only be fair. : )

[Jubal]

...and they can decide for themselves who's dealing with the facts and who's making up fiction.

That's why I posted the links -- everyone likes a good fairy tale.

[Andrew Davey]

everyone likes a good fairy tale

Well if you REALLY wanted to show folks a good fairy tale, you'd direct them HERE. No one knows how to ignore reality like TCA.