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Pelosi Thinks Dems Can Keep The House
Posted On 20 Mar 2022
DELRAY BEACH — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Saturday that she isn’t worried about the four incumbent Democrats leaving their Florida congressional seats when their terms end later this year.
Or her party losing its majority in the U.S. House.
“The Democrats have absolutely no intention of losing the House,” she told the crowd of mostly elected officials gathered at a press conference outside the George Bush Boulevard drawbridge in Delray Beach.
Democrats have control of the U.S. House by 10 seats but have struggled to find well-known and well-heeled candidates to challenge Republicans in two purple Miami-Dade districts. Coupled with a new district coming to the state thanks to post-2020 Census reapportionment, Florida Republicans are eyeing gains in the state in November that could help the GOP win control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Pelosi was in Palm Beach County to highlight a key Democratic congressional achievement — last fall’s trillion dollar-plus infrastructure bill expected to pump billions into Florida. To underscore the importance of the funds, Pelosi ventured to the site of the broken bridge in Delray Beach.
The drawbridge has been stuck in the upright position since March 3 and some of the money from the infrastructure bill could be used to make repairs.
Pelosi touted the more than $19 billion earmarked for Floridians from the bipartisan infrastructure plan Congress approved last fall. Some of those dollars, from a $250 million allotment for bridges over the next five years, could be used to repair the 79-year-old bridge in Delray.
Local officials said repairing the bridge was not just a commuter priority, but an economic one, too.
“We stand steps away from mom-and-pop businesses across the bridge that basically are on a daily basis feeling the impact of no driving traffic going by, no pedestrian traffic walking by,” said Delray Beach Mayor Shelly Petrolia.
The spans of the bridge are unable to close, and remain in the open position. Maintenance staff determined the cause of the malfunction to be damage to the original machinery.
The county said repairs could take approximately six weeks, but may take longer depending on the availability of materials.
The infrastructure bill, along with repairing bridges and roadways, has billions set aside for public transit, broadband and Wi-Fi connectivity, clean water and airports.
“This means many good jobs, and our lives are going to be safer, less costly,” said U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel, D-West Palm Beach. “When you don’t have to fix a tire that hit a pothole, or drive around to find how to get over the bridge, things are much better.”
The legislation will also provide $1.1 billion for Everglades restoration efforts, including a pair of Treasure Coast reservoirs to block contaminated rainfall runoff from entering the Indian River Lagoon, in addition to a water preserve in Broward County and funds for a pump station along the Tamiami Trail.
Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized the plan for omitting funding for another critical Everglades project, the Everglades Agricultural Area Reservoir. That reservoir, which is under construction south of Lake Okeechobee, is aimed at reducing toxic discharges to northern estuaries and providing water to Everglades National Park and Florida Bay.
Original Article: https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/local/2022/03/19/nancy-pelosi-touts-infrastructure-money-site-broken-drawbridge/7104241001/?
She is getting as senile as brandon. Maybe it’s too much prim rib and Crown Royal in that private jet while her pals are telling the rest of us to take the bus eat bugs ad drink water and realize it was not going to be any fun.
Let’s hope and pray that Pelosi is wrong. Let’s not let our guard down again and allow Progressives and their Socialist billionaire and Communist Chinese allies manipulate another election. If you are able to vote, do so. And I mean this for all political affiliations. Hopefully enough Democrat voters who realize what a mistake has been made to allow so much Socialist control of the nation occur will have the integrity to go to the polls and vote for candidates who are best for the nation and not just for themselves and their political party. We don’t need to get rid of Democrats so much as we need to get rid of those who are working against American citizens to bring Socialism to the U.S.
We all know they’ll try to cheat in this election like they did in 2020. As aggravated and mad as everybody is due to Biden’s foulups, there shouldn’t be any way the Democrats can win unless they cheat again.
Interesting the Governor DeCovid is complaining about the infrastructure program not doing enough.
As for the chances of the Republicans taking the House, never underestimate the ability of the Republicans, especially with Trump, to blow a sure thing.
Amid the many truly good thoughts we need the idiocy of TRM to show the superiority of the others.
Money should have nothing to do with it. Everybody knows they’re just printing fake money so this should be an eye awakening moment. Dems want to spend ,spend,spend to buy votes then stick it to the American people once they get in.Fool me once shame on you,fool me twice shame on me!!!!
That’s a very scary thought!
The last thing we need is the dimwit democrats to remain in control of the House and Senate. God help us if they manage to cheat their way into power just as they did in the 2020 election.
Heaven for it she thinks Democrats are doing a great job. They are they are, they are destroying this country that we love.
Piglosi isn’t to SMART is She ! Piglosi has Beijing joey’s DEMENTIA SYNDROME !
Piglosi is as Brain Dead as Brandon ! She has to have Joey’s Dementia Syndrome !
The entire upper “Democrat Machine” that runs DC is a complete cesspool at every juncture and it has spilled over into our larger cities run by liberal Democrats. Have no doubt, they appear as dumb as a rock, but have really horrid goals for this country. As an octogenarian I have never seen such complete corruption in our political system. The Democrats lie, lie, lie and lie some more to the American people. They do not care about the U.S. Constitution, American citizens, the climate, your children or your livelihood — all they want is pure, unlimited POWER! And they will lie, cheat and steal to get it. Joe Biden is corrupt and Jill Biden should be charged with “elder abuse!” That family knew Joe was a cognitive mess but they ran him anyway. Our country is in deep, deep trouble.
Well that sounds like she’s planning a repeat of 2020, which would not be a good idea!
The candidate that has the biggest war chest of money isn’t always the winner of the election. Most voters are intelligent enough to pick out which candidate is campaigning and won’t do what they say and which one in honest in saying what they will try to do if elected.
All i can say is God Forbid. Please sweep them all of the Demonrats out of office in the 20/22 Midterms.
It is obvious that the cream applied to her face so she looks younger than she is has penetrated her skull and has finally done permanent damage to her brain!
What hallucinogenic do they give her in those cocktails? This Dem is obviously just as mentally challenged as our “President”.
Let’s know and remember that our Congress is HIRED HELP which means we can kick them all out and never, ever again allow any Democrat member in again nor the Rinos. There are other small parties that might be what we want and that is REPRESENT US AND NOT THEIR POCKETS AND STUPIDITY. We, THE PEOPLE, ARE THE GOVERNMENT AND FREEDOM and POWER while they are merely nothings who think they are smart and own us. WRONG! Also they “borrowed” our Social Security fund of OUR MONEY and supposedly to return the money which ain’t done and no more allowing our NEW UPDATED CONGRESS thinking they own us while we must wake up and kick them to the gallows for taking out sided money to get richer and we confiscate ALL their assets here and abroad and use those dollars for completing the wall, removing ALL illegals and even those here for decades and not true Americans, and filling up our Social Security account. Gallows are cheap, but whatever gets them home to the devil.