I'm right and you're still a liar and a smear merchant of the highest order.
Murkowski set aside $113 million for that bridge and HE spent the rest Bob, not Sarah Palin.
Of the $113 million, only $36 million was actually spent on it before Palin was able to kill it.
Even the DNC posted this info on their website after Sarah was nominated for VP. When the MSM started the Bridge uproar that your brother Howard Kurtz gleefully joined in, they pulled the page. Charles Johnson at LGF archived the page and still has it here. HERE'S THE DNC QUOTE:
The Gravina Island Bridge initially received $223 million in 2005 via earmarks by Alaska Senators Ted Stevens and Lisa Murkowski. The bridge would have connected Ketchikan, Alaska with its local airport on nearby Gravina Island (population 50). Congress stripped the earmark after a national uproar about it but appropriated the money anyway for unspecified transportation uses. Former Gov. Frank Murkowski’s administration set aside about $113 million of the appropriation for the Ketchikan bridge. However, Gov. Sarah Palin said the $398 million bridge was $329 million short of full funding, and only $36 million in federal funds were set aside for it. She said it was clear Congress had little interest in spending any moremoney for it and that the state had higher priorities.So, Palin canceled the project because she didn’t want to pony up any Alaskan sheckles for it AND after it became a political hot football, then stole the 233 million advanced from the US taxpayer.
Stop being a pathetic, lowlife, Palin-deranged moonbat, Bob.
” She said it was clear Congress had little interest in spending any moremoney for it and that the state had higher priorities.”
All this proves is that if Pain couldn’t suck off he teat of the taxpayers of the lower 49 for that bridge than she wasn’t interested in spending Alaskan tax money on an Alaskan bridge that Alaskans would be using.
In otherwordss, “if you’re not going to give it to us, then I’ll pick up my ball and go home.”
How fiscally conservative.