Which Side of the St. Croix River Crossing Debate Are You On?

The usual suspects in the debate about the St. Croix River Crossing Project have each taken their points of view to the op-ed pages of Capitol Hill’s publication, Roll Call.

Following a gathering at  Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) teamed up with Ryan Alexander, the president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, to express their concerns over the “extra-dosed” bridge, with this piece outlining their arguments against the proposed river crossing to Roll Call.

Today, Congressional supporters Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), Sean Duffy (R-Wis.), Ron Kind (D-Wis.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) fired back with a op-ed piece of their own expressing the .

McCollum and Alexander likened the project to Alaska’s infamous “bridge to nowhere” writing that “this boondoggle bridge may soon become a national symbol of excess at taxpayer expense in the coming election cycle.”

Bachmann, Kind, Duffy and Baldwin argue that Klobuchar’s bill, , is “absolutely necessary,” to address transportation and safety concerns for the area, and does "not spend a cent of new federal money."

Read the Bachmann, Kind, Duffy and Baldwin op-ed piece

Read the McCollum and Alexander op-ed piece

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