what is a DRPA?
I had to look it up. Delaware River Port Authority.
The Delaware River Port Authority board approved $76.3 million in economic-development spending last year, more than in any year since 2001.---That followed the DRPA's pledge in July 2008, during public hearings for bridge toll increases, to end its decadelong spending on projects on both sides of the Delaware River.
In December alone, the final month in office for New Jersey's Democratic Gov. Jon S. Corzine, the Democrat-dominated DRPA board authorized $52.1 million in economic-development spending. The money, all that was left from a massive borrowing for economic development in 1999, was earmarked for projects ranging from the loan fund of the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corp. ($12.9 million) to the Food Bank of New Jersey ($2 million) to a "special project fund" ($2 million).
That final flurry of spending, apparently timed to beat any possible veto by incoming Republican Gov. Christie, brought the DRPA's 12-year total approved for economic development to about $485 million, according to a new accounting provided by the bistate agency.
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/nj/20100817_DRPA_spending_spree_before_Christie_took_office.html
Chump change compared to what the US 111th Congress will pull in lameduck.
A little background that hardly touches the corruption in the port authority
http://www.examiner.com/public-policy-in-philadelphia/drpa-up-to-its-old-tricks