{"id":20951,"date":"2013-07-11T09:52:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T13:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utu.org\/?p=20951"},"modified":"2013-07-11T09:52:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T13:52:42","slug":"amtrak-foe-mica-meets-his-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/amtrak-foe-mica-meets-his-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak foe Mica meets his match","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10785\" style=\"border-style: initial;border-color: initial;margin-top: 4px;margin-bottom: 4px;margin-left: 10px;margin-right: 10px;border-width: 0px\" alt=\"Amtrak Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/amtrak_w_shadow_150px.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"66\" \/>I just sat through a pretty boring hearing on rail financing. But I\u2019m glad I stuck it out, because the fireworks came at the end, when Rep. John Mica picked a fight with the wrong man.<\/p>\n<p>John Robert Smith is familiar face in transportation reform circles. The former Republican mayor of the town of Meridian, Miss., he now leads two of the most significant advocacy organizations in the field, Transportation for America and Reconnecting America. He also happens to be a former chair of Amtrak\u2019s board of directors. All of those qualifications made him a natural choice to testify as a witness at this House Transportation Committee hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Read Tanya Snyder\u2019s complete blog report at <a href=\"http:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2013\/07\/09\/amtrak-foe-mica-meets-his-match-in-john-robert-smith\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DC.StreetsBlog.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just sat through a pretty boring hearing on rail financing. But I\u2019m glad I stuck it out, because the fireworks came at the end, when Rep. 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The former Republican mayor of the town of Meridian, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":9,"featured_media":10785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,9,18],"tags":[574,656],"member_types":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Amtrak foe Mica meets his match - SMART Union<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/amtrak-foe-mica-meets-his-match\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Amtrak foe Mica meets his match - SMART Union\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I just sat through a pretty boring hearing on rail financing. 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