She is therefore more qualified to discuss pork in Alaska than in West Virginia.
The article seems to lament the amount of federal dollars that Alaska is asking for the project. (I did not read the entire article as it is from the NY Times and I don't hit their site if I can avoid it.) My question was, therefore, as someone who pays federal taxes, as I am sure she does, is she as concerned with the fed dollars that flow in the WV and MA as she seems to be with the money that goes to Alaska?