Mr. Why Goes to the Way Back Machine Finds Clack Co Turned State Czarina Peterson Has Trouble With the Truth

March 16, 2011

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This is really something. Here is then Clackamas County Commissioner Lynn Peterson in 2009 speaking in Boring about the Sellwood bridge and the vehicle registration fee:
 “Another reason Clackamas County is being to participate in the cost is that surveys show that 50-60 percent of Sellwood Bridge traffic is coming from Clackamas County. 


She needs to get HER OWN story straight. Peterson later changed her story 

and claimed 76% of the traffic was coming from Clackamas County. She SHOULD know the real numbers, after all, she prepared the study herself while she was at Metro. But here’s the lie. Peterson’s own study showed, in fact, that 79% of the Sellwood Bridge traffic originates or ends in MULTNOMAH COUNTY while 76% is Clackamas traffic. More Sellwood bridge traffic was to and from Mult. Co and she knew it.      
  
“Some in the audience couldn’t believe the random survey Peterson said she had conducted when she was speaking at a recent Estacada Chamber of Commerce meeting. At that meeting, more than 80 percent of the people said they use the bridge.”
Yeah sure they told you that.  What a blatant liar. But here is an admission to keeping the fee
“What we’re going to be asking the entire county to do is look at a vehicle registration fee that would end up paying for all the projects in Clackamas County.
“So, for example, you would have folks in Oregon City paying for safety projects in Boring, and you would have Boring folks paying for something in Molalla.”
Now that is some kind of swell.  Because after she said that she proceeded, as a member of JPACT to advocate the handing over of hundreds of millions from regional, lottery and other funds to MLR that would have been available for Clackamas County projects. 
And at the same time 
“To increase the county’s ability to do road maintenance, the gas tax was increased.”
That tax increase occurred during the 2009 legislature when a record number of transportation fees were jacked up to ‘fix the roads.’ Ha.
Here Peterson tells Boring they’ll get vehicle registration fee funded projects:

“We need to look at which transportation projects would make a difference in Boring and the surrounding area,” she said.
“We could put a funding mechanism out there after 2013, and that is a vehicle registration fee. If we bond against it, we could start to make some projects happen that we’ve been putting off for a very long time.”

Mr Why is an Oregonian, a taxpayer, land owner and political observer who needs a score card to keep the politicians’ stories straight. 

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