On Tuesday, October 28 at 2:30 pm two governors will be in my hometown of Madison, IN. The occasion is the official dedication of the new Milton-Madison Ohio River Bridge.
The two governors in attendance will be Kentucky's Steve Beshear (yeah!) and Indiana's Mike Pence (boo!).
I previously wrote about the construction of this new bridge and its importance to the local economy in a diary entitled "Want to see 7,230 tons of stimulus on the move (literally)?"
In that diary I wrote:
One last word on the political aspects of this project. Indiana's governor is Mike Pence. Pence was a well-known critic of the stimulus while holding a leadership position in the House GOP. That, of course, has not stopped him from making a couple of photo-op appearances at the bridge with all those construction workers in the background. I haven't heard of any plans for him to make an appearance when the bridge reopens but if he does, I'll just have to go down there with a sign to remind everyone of his hypocrisy.
Well, the dedication ceremony is two days away. I've been working on my sign. Anybody want to join me? Madison is roughly an hour from
Louisville and
Cincinnati and less than 2 hours from
Indianapolis.