Last week, Governor Dan McKee sent a letter to the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority Board of Directors that is one of the most hypocritical public statements I have seen during my time in the State House.
In this letter, the governor says he recommended an additional $15 million in state funds to help fund RIPTA this year and that his administration provided $15 million in federal pandemic relief funds for RIPTA last year.
The facts say otherwise. Governor McKee’s proposed budget this year included zero dollars of additional funding for RIPTA. The $15 million that RIPTA is receiving was added by the legislature, not the governor. If Governor McKee thought it was important, he should have included it in his budget…