When $270,000,000 goes to the sixth largest city in the state, even liberals and newspaper cartoonist are bound to notice. Senator Tony Rand and his boy, DOT Secretary Lyndo Tippett have made sure that they have represented their hometown as much as possible. Even fellow Democrats like Raleigh mayor Charles Meeker are crying fowl.
The Raleigh News and Observer's Duane Powell says it all with this cartoon:
We’re doomed!