Tuesday, July 20, 2010 — Finally, a little bit of good news from Augusta: the Portsmouth Herald reported this morning that Maine’s Governor John Baldacci has announced that he will send a letter in support of New Hampshire’s pre-application for TIGER II stimulus money to replace Memorial Bridge.
In response to Baldacci’s announcement, local pro-bridge activists will meet tonight at 4:30 p.m. in the Conference Room in Kittery’s Town Hall.
The goal of the meeting, according to our source, Stephen Kosacz, is to “plan the next strategy based on the very recent news that Baldacci has agreed to sign/work with New Hampshire on the Notice of Intent for the TIGER II application, which is due July 26.”
“This is a major change from Augusta;” Kosacz writes, “however, given the likelihood of our not receiving any money from TIGER II, the feeling is that there will continue to be considerable resistance in Augusta to Maine’s spending the money on the bridges. I am not sure what folks have in plan for tonight other than to keep the pressure on and figuring out how are we going to do that.”