Once again Pennsylvania Senate majority leader David Brightbill is acting as a lapdog to Governor Ed “Fast Eddy” Rendell. Senator Brightbill proposed, and got passed a commission to study the possibility of charging tolls on various Pennsylvania State highways. The Schuylkill Expressway in Philadelphia, and Interstate 80 are the main two. The reason for the tolls is to bail out the ever so failing mass transit systems of Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia. I’m sick and tired of these people picking our back pockets constantly. We just had an increase in tolls on the PA Turnpike. When that was proposed the Turnpike commission claimed that 100% of that money would go into much needed highway improvement on the whole stretch of the Turnpike. Instead the stupid union had the toll takers out on strike for more money. This latest scam that Brightbill is proposing would be along those lines. More union cry babies that get paid over $18.00 an hour to sit on their butts, and take tickets, and money from people. Mass Transit needs to be left to the cities. Just like any other business if something does not make a profit it performs cost cutting measures, and if they still can’t make a profit they do away with it. This should go for mass transit.
As for David Brightbill he has become such a traitor to the people he represents in the State Senate. Do you remember when Ed Rendell proposed the increase in the state income tax? David Brightbill promised that he would vote against it, and fight it until the bitter end. Later on he bends over, and grabs the ankles for Fast Eddy, and claims a victory for Republicans on the grounds that the tax increase could have been much worse. He is now doing this again with this stupid toll proposal. We need to get rid of Brightbill, and put in a true Conservative that will fight against the continuing pick pocketing of our hard earned money. David Brightbill you have sold us out for the last time, and you will pay for it at the ballot box. David Brightbill leave our hard earned money alone. We are already overtaxed in this state, and your jackass proposal will just continue to chase people and businesses out of this state. David Brightbill just proved he is a RINO (Republican in name only).