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Tom Tiffany: “We've seen mass transit systems like the one in California…”

Featuring: Tom Tiffany, Republican | U.S. House Wisconsin, District 7

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Tom Tiffany one-on-one with CBS 58's Meredith Hackler

Published | Video Starts at 18:37

Do you support that? Is that something that you would make a priority or. Yeah, I will not make that a priority. Why not? We've seen mass transit systems like the one in California that has been being built for the last 10 years. Severe cost overruns, it's still not completed. No one's ridden on that train. The mass transit systems just have not worked. And until somebody shows me one, a model that will work, I don't think that's the best use of taxpayer dollars. (18:37–18:49)

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Asserts that the California mass transit system has severe cost overruns and is incomplete after 10 years.

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