Priceless Audience Sidebar In Wednesday's SEWRPC Transportation Committee Audience

There were plenty of regional public-works bureaucrats in the audience at Wednesday's regional transportation funding meeting, and a few were telling war stories from the concrete battlegrounds.

One fella was reprising to others what his local electeds did with a recent road project in a community outside of Milwaukee County:

"Five people came and bitched. They backed down. I mean, grow some gonads."