Palin's Project List Totals $453 Million
(Wall Street Journal, September 15, 2008)
"Last week, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain said his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, hadn't sought earmarks or special-interest spending from Congress, presenting her as a fiscal conservative. But state records show Gov. Palin has asked U.S. taxpayers to fund $453 million in specific Alaska projects over the past two years.
These projects include more than $130 million in federal funds that would benefit Alaska's fishing industry and an additional $9 million to help Alaska oil companies. She also has sought $4.5 million to upgrade an airport on a Bering Sea island that has a year-round population of less than 100..." WSJ 9/15/08
Can we now just assume the opposite of whatever the McCain campaign tells us?
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Identified: Palin's airport to nowhere
Thanks for the input Cuffy, and great research. But if the Airport to Nowhere is part of SBX or BMD (aka Star Wars, aka Space Balls, aka tracking things we cannot possibly shoot down all of), it should have come under the defense budget. That said, we'll give you that one if you can explain the millions for studying crab mating, harbor seal DNA and recreational halibut fishing.
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