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Public pays part of tab for Paris conference
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | Sunday, November 09, 2003 | Joe Grata

Posted on 11/09/2003 10:16:32 AM PST by Willie Green

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:35:24 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Four of seven delegates from Pennsylvania spent at least $13,600 in public funds attending a toll road conference in Paris.

An examination of records by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and KDKA-TV showed that the state also might have dropped as much as $22,500 in public money on promotional items at the Sept. 20-24 meeting of the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association in the City of Light.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: junkets; pittsburgh; taxes; tolls

1 posted on 11/09/2003 10:16:32 AM PST by Willie Green
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2 posted on 11/09/2003 10:17:09 AM PST by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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3 posted on 11/09/2003 10:23:57 AM PST by martin_fierro (_____oooo_(_°_¿_°_)_oooo_____)
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To: Willie Green
Does this really surprise anyone ?
4 posted on 11/09/2003 11:20:24 AM PST by smokeyb
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No, but it helps to put the scalawags on public display every now and then. Make 'em cringe a little.
5 posted on 11/09/2003 12:05:54 PM PST by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: Willie Green
No, but it helps to put the scalawags on public display every now and then. Make 'em cringe a little.

I was one of the fools that thought when the pub's got in controle that they would stop being bought off for these toll road extensions. Boy was I ever wrong. Now they want to give away the raod that are already built to private business for more toll roads. What a back door tax increase.

6 posted on 11/09/2003 12:25:05 PM PST by org.whodat
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