US: GOP senators: Napa Wine Train project 'tax dollar sinkhole'
US: GOP senators: Napa Wine Train project 'tax dollar sinkhole'
May 11, 2012 6
(News10) - No-bid contracts cost taxpayers big money, and that's one reason the $79 million Napa Valley Wine Train flood-control project has become a "tax dollar sinkhole," two U.S. senators say.
In a statement issued Tuesday in response to a California Watch report, Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Tom Coburn, R-Okla., faulted the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for not seeking competitive bids on the Wine Train job.
The project involves relocating a rail bridge for the Wine Train tourist attraction as part of construction to stop serious winter flooding on the Napa River.
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