Buttigieg calls out Boebert over infrastructure post
Source: The Hill
05/22/24 9:39 PM ET
Transportation Sec. Pete Buttigieg called out Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) on Wednesday for taking credit for securing federal funding for a bridge in her district when, in fact, she voted against the bipartisan infrastructure bill that funded the project.
“Great meeting with Glenwood Springs City Councilor and former Mayor Jonathan Godes,” Boebert posted on X, attaching a photo with the city councilor. “We have secured over $51.4 million for the South Bridge,” Boebert continued, saying she “was thrilled to hear about nearly $30 million in costs savings in addition and that my support has helped make this project a reality.”
Buttigieg fired back and pressed Boebert to elaborate on her support. “Congresswoman, in what way do you believe that your support helped this project?” Buttigieg said on X Wednesday, reposting Boebert’s original post. “We chose it because it’s a good project, and funded it using President Biden’s infrastructure package, which you voted against,” he added.
The official White House account on X similarly highlighted Boebert’s post and wrote, “One thing about Congressional Republicans…they’re going to take credit for investments they voted against.” The Hill has reached out to Boebert for comment.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4681052-pete-buttigieg-lauren-boebert-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill-post/
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Congresswoman, in what way do you believe that your support helped this project? We chose it because it's a good project, and funded it using President Biden's infrastructure package, which you voted against.
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Great meeting with Glenwood Springs City Councilor and former Mayor Jonathan Godes.
We have secured over $51.4 million for the South Bridge.
Was thrilled to hear about nearly $30 million in costs savings in addition and that my support has helped make this project a reality.
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Boebert hasn’t secured 51.4 million dollars for this bridge. The money came from a Biden-Harris grant that is part of the “Rural Surface Transportation Grant Program”, which itself is a part of the“Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act” which Boebert voted against.
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6:25 PM · May 22, 2024
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ALL federal agencies began a communications migration to "social media" back in the mid-late 2000s (and I remember when my agency did it), and used Facebook & Twitter to supplement their web presence. This was something promoted by then-President Barack Obama and I know my agency went through various procedural steps and SOPs to determine how to best use it (and it took quite a bit of time).
Most governmental entities (beyond the federal government) have used it to quickly get info out to the public (where the "tweets" were picked up by local news orgs), and that even includes entities like local fire and police and Emergency Management officials in municipalities, counties, and at the state level. It offered the "immediacy" that broadcast media could not or would not offer (where there was often push-back on "interrupting" their entertainment programming or sports), and in fact, the print media (and even broadcast media) use these notifications to write their copy.
That is how THIS article got written. 
Just this morning, my local NWS office fired off various notifications about a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for an isolated thunderstorm cell that had just scraped past where I live and was moving east into other areas of Philly headed for NJ. I got the NOAA Weather siren alert on my weather radio, but they also have a whole format to send out Warnings via X (twitter) -
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Severe Thunderstorm Warning including Levittown PA, Croydon PA and Burlington NJ until 6:45 AM EDT
This graphic displays a severe thunderstorm warning plotted on a map. The warning is in effect until 6:45 AM EDT. The warning includes Levittown PA, Croydon PA and Burlington NJ. This warning is for Northwestern Burlington County in southern New Jersey, Eastern Montgomery County in southeastern Pennsylvania, Southeastern Bucks County in southeastern Pennsylvania and Northeastern Philadelphia County in southeastern Pennsylvania. The threats associated with this warning are wind gusts up to 60 MPH and quarter sized hail. There are 1,050,339 person in the warning along with 236 schools and 21 hospitals.
5:54 AM · May 23, 2024
They use very specific template (and criteria for use) to format their notification blasts using that application and it probably took months and months to draft and finalize.
So when an idiot like Musk buys one of these social media applications and then proceeds to trash it, it means that these governmental bodies will have to (and probably already had to) discuss how to handle that and whether to consider moving to a different platform as the use of the application is now being hindered by a number of factors impacted by the buyout.
But that will take time because they have to research alternatives, then select some to pilot test, get approval from far above for use of the selected app, and then come up with new Standards of Procedure/Guidelines to implement, etc.
I have noticed that some are slowly testing out Threads, which is associated with Meta (Zuckerberg) and its Instagram (and obviously Facebook), so that may ultimately end up being the replacement at some point in the furure.
