claim: on the way the federal government should spend florida's rejected high-speed rail money.
author: rick scott
evidence_1: feb 16, 2011 ... gov. rick scott effectively turned down $2 billion in federal funds as part of ...  called for spending $53 billion on passenger trains and high-speed rail ... much  of the right-of-way along the route, which would allow it to be built ...
evidence_2: aug 11, 2011 ... high-speed rail would have cost florida taxpayers $1 billion to build. ... to reject  about $2.4 billion in federal money for a high-speed train line .... 8, 2011, in  advocating for more road-building projects: "this is kind of like a buyer's market."  ... to spend any additional state taxpayer dollars on the high-speed ...
evidence_3: may 10, 2011 ... among other things, the funds will be used to improve speed and service in the ...  a ruling that allowed the republican government to reject the federal money, the  ... spending over the next six years to promote high-speed rail -- an ... gop  governors vowed to kill high-speed rail projects that were under way.
evidence_4: aug 31, 2015 ... a look at what happened to federal money ... scott walker rejected $810  million for a madison-to-milwaukee line. ... one was florida, where gov. ...  argued that despite the federal investment, high-speed rail would run up costs for  the states. ... charlie crist, and ohio spent about $15 million under gov.
evidence_5: jun 7, 2016 ... part of the money earmarked for florida's rail project wound up in ... state, but the  project is way over budget and way behind schedule. politico reported the  price has swelled to about 35 times the annual federal subsidy for amtrak, ... of  whether florida should have taken the high-speed rail money, the ...