More Evidence The Illiana Fight Unites Both Left And Right

The Daily Kos last month covered the Illiana Expressway issue after blog post author "ManfromMiddleton" picks up a copy of a conservative student newspaper at Purdue University: It's more proof that the Illiana Expressway Toll Road has the potential to unite the political Left and political Right in one coalition.

From the Daily Kos (special recognition to Dalton over at Porter County Politics for noticing it):

Thomas wrote about the Illiana highway project and the regional planning commission's opposition to it earlier today. From Thomas, I expect this, though we've never actually met, I have what I think is a decent understanding of the guy. Walking through one of the buildings on campus earlier this week, I picked up a new paper that I had never seen before, the Purdue Review. What attracted me was a headline on the frontpage, "The Real Toll of Illiana: The End of Rural Indiana", that turned out to be highly critical of Daniels adminstration. All the more suprising then my realization that this was the new campus conservative newspaper. Opening the page to see the Gipper 6 inches from my kisser gave it away.

I'm sure that we disagree about many other things, but I agree with much of what Jeff Schultz has to say.

The Daily Kos quotes Jeff Schultz's article:

Mitch Daniels told the 2006 Republican convention that, "if you are not for this plan, you are against our future." Indiana has always been a rural, Midwestern state. There might be more than corn in Indiana but let's not forget our roots. A big part of future is still in small communities like mine. Don't listen to Daniel's rhetoric. He's a politician and it's his job to lie. Being a newspaper writer, it is my duty to tell you the truth and the truth is that if you are for the building of the Illiana Expressway then you are against our future (those who live in Northwestern Indiana.) Daniels doesn't care. He probably wouldn't mind sacrificing a few, despicable hicks like us off the map. Maybe we are hicks, but we have the right as American to live a life of freedom and happiness.

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