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Originally Posted by TexasCreed
Ok yes but astroturfing for Who and What? For there to be a conspiracy as is being suggested there should be motivation. For what you suggest there needs to be more than negligence and incompetence. Someone's interest are being represented behind the scenes.
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A lot of people want rail somewhere and don't have the guts to put it where it needs to go, so they're trying to make the place they DO have the guts to go look a lot better in comparison.
A lot of people have a lot of political capital tied up in not making Rapid Bus look like the useless shit sandwich it is.
A lot of people have a lot tied up in rail campaigns not being cut off now.
There's a lot of different reasons for astroturfing. But I have encountered it, and even directly from Project Connect. I was quoted in the Statesman last week as one of the people who got the purposefully misleading flier, for instance.
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