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By Guy Page
Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vermont) presented an oversized photo-op check for $800,000 to the Vermont Department of Transportation on September 4. In the upper left hand corner – where the name of the account from which funds come normally appears – the name “Becca Balint” appears.
It is standard practice for elected officials to use oversize checks to demonstrate that they secured government funds for a local or state project. However, most such photo-op checks do not portray the name of the elected official in the upper left hand corner, where the name of the account owner typically appears.
The ceremonial, not-for-official use check does portray the check signer as “U.S. Treasury.”
In any event, the Vermont Agency of Transportation Facebook post with the photo described both Balint’s involvement in the securing of the federal funds, and the purpose of the funds.
“Today at our Dill Building in Berlin, Transportation Secretary Joe Flynn and Chief Engineer Jeremy Reed were presented with $800,000 in federal funding secured by Congresswoman Becca Balint to replace an outdated culvert in Lowell on Vermont Route 100, one of the key north-south highways that links the Northeast Kingdom with Central Vermont.
“The new culvert will greatly reduce the possibility of a major, unplanned closure that could significantly affect residents and businesses across this region due to the limited number of detour options. This culvert dates back to 1948 and is one of thousands of old, outdated culverts installed during the Eisenhower Interstate era of the 1960s and 1970s that are susceptible to failure, resulting in significant community disruption.
“If this culvert in Lowell were to fail, an emergency closure would require a detour of 27 miles for area residents, visitors, truck freight, and public transportation and also place pressure on local roadways. The new 15-foot-wide culvert will replace three 6-foot-wide culverts. Work is excepted to begin next summer and be completed by next fall.
“This federal funding was secured by Rep. Balint as one of 15 Community Funding Projects across Vermont in the 2024 fiscal year.”
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she makes the other 2 in DC seem better.
Not really, a check from Washington where our professional politicians have amassed $36 Trillion dollars of unsustainable debt.
$36,000,000,000,000.00 Guess who gets to pay this debt?
She’s still a two headed liberal snake. And this happens just in time for elections. The ole Dems play all the tricks they can to win. And she will probably win again, because she is gay; not because she’s really helping anything or even qualified for the job. Just another swamp monster trainee. 🙄
Egomaniacs
What’s more important, the culvert replacement or the devastated flooded towns that impacted far more people? Lousy priorities. She wouldn’t get a photo op with FEMA’s involvement.
Stolen Valor – United States Treasury Edition
This is just more tax dollars you’ve paid in, just more Debt for the country that you’ll have to pay again !!
How much more proof do we need that they think it’s their money, not ours?
Vote this Marxist POS out! Oh, wait. A braindead/brainwashed electorate will keep her in power along with the EVM’s as a backup!
For woman who was elected with money from the XRP scandal… par for the course.
Why do R’s seem to be nasty and accusatory whenever they disagree with a government representative’s action or position. How about “I don’t like what you did. I will now explain why (in some intelligent way)”.
Anybody do the math, replacing 3 six foot culverts (6×3=18) with one 15 foot and the purpose of making it 3 feet smaller is to??????
My thinking can go two ways. A fifteen ft culvert will be harder to plug up with debris where as a six ft culvert gets plugged you still have two more 6fters to handle the flow. The question is could the two remaining handle it?
A worthless far left elitist flatlander carpetbagger (as is most of the VT legislature) who knows nothing about Vermont or Vermonters (see:Sanders, Bernie). An embarrassment to this state and a cancer upon this country.
Not a fan for sure but Trump puts his name on everything and no one chirps. It called promotion.
Trump doesn’t print his name on funding checks Chris. And literally anything he does “wrong”, real or entirely made up has been chirped about continuously. Give me a break buddy
Hi Bob, here’s Trump giving out some checks with his name printed on them while he was campaigning for office. https://www.npr.org/2018/12/18/677778958/trump-foundation-to-dissolve-amid-new-york-ags-investigation
Hi David Davis?
As you’ll notice the money comes from “The Trump Foundation” and not the taxpayers. Big…..no YUGE difference
Hi Bob, please take a break after moving those goalposts. That was a heavy lift.
My opinion: Quoting: ” to replace an outdated culvert in Lowell on Vermont Route 100, one of the key north-south highways that links the Northeast Kingdom with Central Vermont.”
On that highway you can’t make time getting to a Montpelier area destination. It’s so curved and narrow, it’s as sight seeing highway. Nice road for foliage and tourists. This is wasted money. Either spend it on flooded towns or donate it to the states with hurricane damage. This is her not so well thinking. Coming from Germany I wonder if she read Mein Kampf and formulated her mind to that social status. Her normalcy and seeks the limelight.
Tom, Excellent post.
You just can’t make people see those who refuse to see. None are do blind as those who refuse to see. It is so frustrating to watch and experience people vote that have no clue as to what and who they are voting for. They vote for the people who are ruining their lives and steeling their freedom.
This is hardly photo op worthy also Flynn’s a joke and needs to be replaced
…and have to wonder how many CO2 absorbing trees lost their lives to manufacture that giant check…
Compared to what Ukraine and Isreal are getting for infrastructure rebuilds (wink, wink) – here’s your chump change. The State of Vermont and Becca take the opportunity to lie and deceive – together, hand in hand. She did not secure funds at all. The Federal Pork budget nugget was more than likely a Bernie/Peter save when it came to carving up that pork roast in the Senate. Recall, Peter was howling post flood #2 – before Congress went on vacation for month. Praying for the day they all go down in defeat and perp walked in shackles.
“This culvert dates back to 1948 and is one of thousands of old, outdated culverts installed during the Eisenhower Interstate era of the 1960s and 1970s that are susceptible to failure…”.
So let me get this straight. At $800k per culvert, with “thousands” to replace (let’s call it 25000 nationwide just for fun), 25000 x $800000 = $20 BILLION. With a B. Just for culverts. Then add in all the bridges in disrepair, all the highways falling apart, and all the public buildings that need who knows what. THEN what’s the number? $500 TRILLION? $1000 TRILLION?
But yeah, let’s keep funding senseless wars all around the world instead. That makes perfect sense.
On the bright side, I guess now we can expect another hundred plus public relations photo ops with our dear Becca. I can’t wait. How about you?
David Davis
So let me get this right, a taxpayer’s employee, Becca Balint , wants to use her name as the contributor of an $800,000 culvert replacement for VT. that just happens to actually be paid for, like her job, with taxpayers money. What could you expect of someone who campaigned with stolen money to do. Incidentally, your left leaning NPR article of Trump doing the same thing, simply doesn’t hold water. Nice photo op
US Treasury is clearly written on that giant check. It’s pretty clear where the money came from and who helped secure it. But if you’re actually concerned with shady financial behavior, read the details from that Trump article concerning his “foundation” and its spending. Before it was forced to dissolve that is. WOWZA
David Davis – And the Clinton Foundation, making money from both sides of arms deals that had to be approved via the State Department? Arms sales up 141% between Bush II and Obama admins? What Secretary of State had to sign off on all international arms deals?
Personally, that was my wake-up call. And NPR/VPR said nothing about it.
VPR’s Bob Kinzell said , “there WAS violence” at the Dem Nevada convention of 2016, and I realized the fix was in.
Is VPR really your friend?
Hi Tyler,
Is VPR/NPR in the room with you now?
If their reporting makes you uncomfortable maybe this one is easier for you to digest. https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-foundation-to-dissolve-n-y-attorney-generals-office-says-11545151649