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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: TheSarge on September 21, 2009, 07:52:26 PM
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(http://media2.myfoxdc.com//photo/2009/09/21/VaHOTLanesRaceIssue_20090921183932_320_240.JPG)
ARLINGTON, Va. - There's a new turn in the debate over high occupancy toll lanes or HOT lanes.
A lawsuit filed by Arlington County last month claims the lanes benefit wealthy white people and discriminates against minorities. While the only rule to get in the HOV lanes on Interstate 395 is you must have three people in the car, Arlington claims adding HOT lanes would cut out poor and minorities by defacto.
That claim doesn't sit well with Fairfax County Supervisor Pat Herrity (R-Springfield).
"I don't think race or class warfare has any standing in this argument," Herrity said.
Buried in the lawsuit filed last month, county attorneys argued the HOT lanes, "encourage and enable a financially-able, privileged class of suburban and rural, primarily Caucasian residents from Stafford and Spotsylvania counties operating single occupancy vehicles ("SOV") unimpeded access on toll lanes."
In other words, it benefits wealthy white people.
A few pages later, the suit claims the Federal Highway Administration and the Virginia Department of Transportation failed to do the proper environmental analysis and that "their actions also constituted civil rights violations as they discriminated against minority and low income communities."
Arlington County Chair Barbara Favola says the race issue only arose because the environmental review includes socioeconomic impact.
"It is not our intention to play a race card. I think that's a very divisive approach," Favola told FOX5.
http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/local/092109_arlington_race_a_factor_in_hot_lanes
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Idiots love that race card.
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Idiots love that race card.
it's all they have left.
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it's all they have left.
Let's just hope it's not all they need.
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Let's just hope it's not all they need.
They will try to make it seem that way.
The left does like to keep racism alive and well.
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They will try to make it seem that way.
The left does like to keep racism alive and well.
It's all they've got.
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It's all they've got.
On this we agree.
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Gang, if the race card is being played for something like this, the game (in general, for the libs) is very near its' end. And the end ain't gonna be pretty.
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Liberals are creating their own demise.
The more they use the race card, the less valuable it becomes.
Like others have said: it's all they have left.
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This is nothing more than some blood sucking attorney trying to get paid.
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Sad and discusting. They have really hit a new low with this one.
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Gah....I'm soooooooooooooo sick of this card being played 30 times a day. Grow the hell up, put your big girl panties on, and deal with life, and stop looking for discrimination behind every decision already!
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And cheer up, kids--your tax dollars are going to defend against crap like this!
Oh, how I wish they had "loser pays" statutes here.
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Oh FFS people!!!!!!! :whatever:
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A disproportionate number of ethnic minorities receive public assistance (money). I demand that the payments be evenly distributed based on percentages of ethnicity. That should even things out nicely.
:fuelfire:
Idiot liberals.
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White minivans be keeping the stylin' Black sedans down.
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Ya know, nothing pisses me off quite like a bunch of car pooling racists!!!
/lib mode
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Who can afford gas in this Zeroconomy?
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Oh for the love of Pete. I thought this was an Onion report at first.
REALLY?
:thatsright:
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Oh for the love of Pete. I thought this was an Onion report at first.
REALLY?
:thatsright:
This is life imitating the Onion I'm afraid.
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This is life imitating the Onion I'm afraid.
Well I don't like it. ACK! Can I just get my pony and go home?
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And the kicker of it is...the county screaming "racist" has the largest white population of the counties affected by the hew lanes!
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For the past 40 years, since LBJ, blacks have been getting a free ride....now they're laying claim to the fast lane.
You know, I spent the first half of life trying to become un-racist and the last half backsliding...just a little.....but before Obama leaves Washington, I think I'll be back where I started from.
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I have never been racist a day in my life but I am fast becoming one
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I have never been racist a day in my life but I am fast becoming one
You don't have a choice. If you don't like Obama, you are racist. The sooner we just accept it the better off we will all be.
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You don't have a choice. If you don't like Obama, you are racist. The sooner we just accept it the better off we will all be.
:doh: I should have remembered