Jack got the first installment of a government grant to build a bridge, but with a change in which party had control, the balance of the grant never came, leaving him with a bridge to nowhere. Trying to salvage something, he had offered the “bridge to nowhere” to both of the parties, thinking it could make good political fodder; so far, no takers, but the election was months away.
Like many government agencies, NOAA starts ill-conceived projects with no real vision for completion, just building the line-item budget. The rainbow to nowhere seems like such a project . . .
Before he had been elected to Congress, Henry had studied some of the famous boondoggles hoping to educate himself and not make some of the same bad choices. While on vacation in India, he saw the famous Hallway to Nowhere and wondered if this had been the inspiration for the famous Alaskan Bridge to Nowhere. . . . . David, Sf.G.
