JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — The John Murtha airport sits on a windy mountain two hours east of Pittsburgh, a 650-acre expanse of smooth tarmac, spacious buildings, a helicopter hangar and a National Guard training center.
Inside the terminal on a recent weekday, four passengers lined up to board a flight, outnumbered by seven security staff members and supervisors, all suited up in gloves and uniforms to screen six pieces of luggage. For three hours that day, no commercial or private planes took off or landed. Three commercial flights leave the airport on weekdays, all bound for Dulles International Airport.
The key to the airport’s gleaming facilities — and, indeed, its continued existence — is $200 million in federal funds in the past decade and the powerful patron who steered most of that money here. Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) is credited with securing at least $150 million for the airport. It was among the first in the country to win funding from this year’s stimulus package: $800,000 to repave a backup runway.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/18/AR2009041802128_pf.html
What a waste.
because outside of Barney Frank’s district, the people of Murtha’s district have to be the most naive voters on the planet
I hope this link I provided helps you.
Same reason Al Gore screams global warming but lives in a home that requires a lot of energy to operate. Like putting the fox in charge of the hen house.
The answer is the story you linked. Try reading it.
It’s nice to have low friends in high places.
They have to make sure they have money to pay the staff
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Got to make sure the cows can land somewhere when they come home.
Because he called his constituents racists and that’s popular these days. Obama likes that.
he wanted it for a long time so when stimulus came along it was a good place to let tax payer do the work. all the politicians added pork to stimulus