Getting Frank: GROUPS DEMAND FRANK ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT

Thursday, August 14, 2008

GROUPS DEMAND FRANK ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT

Saying that the yearlong decline in vehicle miles driven makes widening unnecessary, The American Civil Liberties Union, 1000 Friends of Wisconsin, Midwest Environmental Advocates and the NAACP-Milwaukee have asked Frank Busalacchi to authorize a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on the proposed widening of I-94. In a 31 page letter, with supporting documents [See PDF] attorney Dennis Grzezinski calls on WisDOT to use more recent cost and travel estimates, saying the methodology used by the agency was out-of-date and flawed.

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Frank's Best Quotes

"But I was selling some stolen goods, and I was arrested for that and subsequently charged with a misdemeanor and put on probation, served my probation."
- Frank Busalacchi, quoted in The Daily Reporter February 5, 2003.

Busalacchi said he informed Doyle of the arrest prior to his appointment.
--Mark Kass, Daily Reporter, February 5, 2003

“People have a right to speak and say what they want. But at the end of the day, they have to tell truth."
--Frank Busalacchi

"This was not a secret, it has been public knowledge for years," Busalacchi said. "All this stuff that is floating out there doesn't scare me. I've been dealing with this my whole life."
-Frank Busalacchi, The Daily Reporter, February 5, 2003

"(Busalacchi) is largely responsible for the Milwaukee Brewers stadium cost overruns of nearly $100 million so far, according to the Legislative Audit Bureau, and has voted for the ... freeway widening plan that can't be built without a huge tax increase."
-Then-mayor John O. Norquist, explaining his opposition to Busalacchi’s appointment as Secretary of Transportation.