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Re: From someone who remembers the 1970s
Author: Freericks
Date: 08-04-2012 - 14:10

Compared to his contemporaries McGovern, Kennedy, and Humprhey, he was not Amtrak's friend.

And I remember the 70s too (I even worked on some of those campaigns).

Minneapolis Depot Wrote:
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> Freericks Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
>
> >
> > I do however believe that Amtrak used to be
> less
> > of a partisan issue. Trent Lott comes to mind as
> a
> > huge Amtrak supporter while Jimmy Carter seemed
> to
> > be virulently anti Amtrak. Today, ones support
> or
> > distaste of Amtrak seems to do more with if
> they
> > have a D or an R by their name.
> >
> Jimmy Carter was not "virulently anti-Amtrak."
> That description would apply to Ronald Reagan who
> proposed Zero budgets for Amtrak as Romney
> proposes to do. Although the Carter
> Administration is associated with the loss of some
> really nice trains such as the North Coast
> Hiawatha, Carter never proposed zero budgets for
> Amtrak. On the contrary, the Northeast Corridor
> Improvement Program was begun under, new
> locomotives and rolling stock was purchased and
> new trains were added such as the Desert Wind and
> Pioneer.
>
> Yes, there WERE pro-Amtrak Republicans. However,
> at the national level, most of them have been
> purged from the ranks by the Tea Party.

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