Governor Chet Culver is asking legislators to rethink their opposition to his proposal for financing the operations of the Iowa State Highway Patrol. Culver has called for using state gas taxes to pay salaries and expenses for the state troopers, but legislators are reluctant to divert that money from construction and maintenance of Iowa roads and bridges.
Culver says using gas tax money for troopers makes sense, and it should be added to the state government reorganization plan that will be debated in the House later this week. “If they would have included that, for example, we would have been at about $235 million in savings or $330 million plus when you combine that with my executive order,” Culver says.
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