Special Sections Hurricane 2000 Health and Medicine Newcomers Guide Read the latest headlines straight from the Associated Press. The proposed bullet train promises more twists and turns than a Busch Gardens roller coaster as Florida lawmakers try to deal with a voter mandate for the high-speed rail system in a tight budget year.
Few lawmakers care to come right out and tell voters they didn t make a smart decision.
If that s what we opt to do, that s fine, said Sen. Jim King, R-Jacksonville. But if we want to do that, let s remember there are some programs, some people and some civic entities that are simply not going to get funded. The amendment did not tell voters how much the system would cost or from where the money would come. That has lawmakers on both sides of the aisle looking for a way to ditch the project. Sen. Ron Klein, D-Boca Raton, filed legislation in January to put another amendment, repealing the first, on the 2002 ballot.