What Napolitano wants, Napolitano gets
When Congresswoman Grace Napolitano (D-Santa Fe Springs) requests a tour of a project she helped fund, I guess there’s no denying her.
Napolitano is scheduled to tour La Puente’s Community Center and Youth Learning Activity Center construction site on Thursday to see the energy efficient elements of the project.
Apparently, Napolitano provided nearly $200,000 in appropriations for the Youth Learning Activity Center. That equates to about 1.7 percent of the project’s entire price tag: $11.9 million (which I might add is about five times what it was supposed to cost).
Groundbreaking on the center took place in November, after it had been closed for about three years amid construction delays and litigation.
According to a press release from the city, Napolitano “is expected to be joined on the tour by 16 of her staff members.”
I guess everybody’s got an entourage.
Sixteen staff members? That can't possibly be just her district staff, so it must include some of her D.C. staff as well.
So, some of these folks have flown thousands of miles (on whose dime?) to see how the boss spends appropriated money.
That looks like an awfully large Carbon Footprint that the "environmentally-friendly" Congresswoman and her staff are leaving in their wake.