Posted on 08/08/2007 9:26:00 AM PDT by BGHater
According to the Houston Chronicle, Paul:
...leads the Houston-area delegation in the number of earmarks, or special funding requests, that he is seeking for his district. He is trying to nab public money for 65 projects, such as marketing wild shrimp and renovating the old movie theater in Edna that closed in 1977 — neither of which is envisioned in the Constitution as an essential government function.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4935311.html
(chuckle)
The Paulie Girls are gonna getcha for that.....
Here is a list of some of the pork that Paul has applied for. It is apparent that much of this has nothing to do with programs permitted, or mandated, by the Constitution. You figure out what clause of the Constitution enumerates the spending in question. I’m not an expert on the workings of Congress but reading through the funding requests I am under the impression that Paul was seeking multiple funding for some of these projects. I don’t know if this is cumulative, but that is the impression I got. Either way asking for it once is bad enough.
1. $25,000 for the Brazoria County Sheriff to establish a “Children’s Identification and Location Database.”
2. $8 million for the marketing of wild American shrimp.
3. $2.3 million for shrimp fishing research.
4. $3 million to “secure the acquisition of the McGinnes tract, protecting its critical natural resources and helping consolidate refuge inholdings.”
5. $5 million to expand the cancer center at Brazosport Hospital.
6. $200,000 for the Matagorda Episcopal Health Outreach Program to fund a “National Health Service Corp Scholar.”
7. $4.5 million to study the effects of the health risks of vanadium.
8. $3 million to test imported shrimp for antibiotics. (Does anyone think there is a big shrimp industry in Paul’s district?)
9. $10 million to repair the Galveston railways causeway bridge.
10. $1.18 million for “Personalized Medicine in Asthma”
11. $100,000 for a “data-driven automated system for nursing students on the Texas Gulf Coast.”
12. $257,000 to “prepare graduates from the doctoral program at the University of Texas Medical Branch School of Nursing to assume faculty roles in schools for nursing with a deficient number of doctoral level faculty.”
13. $1.4 million to buy buses for the Golden Crescent Regional Commission.
14. $2 million to buy buses for Galveston.
15. $5 million for highway spending.
16. $2 million to replace facilities for Galveston bus service.
17. $3 million to replace facilities for the Golden Crescent Regional bus facility.
18. $2 million to repair the Galveston trolley.
19. $2.14 million to renovate the Edna Theater.
20. $13 million for I-69 highway project.
21. $30 million the Texas Maritime Academy to refurbish a ship.
22. $4.5 million to maintain Cedar Bayou. Plus another $9 million
23. $15 million for “construction at GIWW Matagorda Bay.” Plus another $5.8 million
24. $100,000 to maintain Chocolate Bayou.
25. $2.5 million to maintain Double Bayou.
http://freestudents.blogspot.com/2007/07/ron-pauls-personal-pork-projects.html
Give me a break this little pip squeak Ross Perot wannabe is a joke.
The little man has a problem.
The neocons made him do it no doubt.
No doubt. The guy gives me the creeps. I don’t know why anyone is paying attention to him.
And you'll get right back to us when you see he's
A) voted in the affirmative for any of the projects and
B) where it is in the Constitution he's not supposed to represent his constituency by passing along requests for the government's ear.
But keep on harping eh?
Wild shrimp!
I am your pork pimp!
I'll make federal funds ... easy!
Wild shrimp!
Wild shrimp, I want to pimp you
But I gotta know for sure.
Will eight mil be enough?
You need it...
Wild shrimp!
My values go limp!
I'm just an earmark pimp
For my wild shrimp!
Wild Shrimp: The Other Pork
Whether he votes for the bill or not makes no difference. A spending bill will pass with his pork on it. How stupid are you people?
No I am not. But people that seriously suggest a Representative's job is not to represent his constituents must believe the Constitution outlines a role for the Representative, other than to rubberstamp the administration's actions.
suggesting that it is okay to do everything NOT listed in the Constitution
On second thought, what does the 10th Amendment say? Although I realize early Republicans most of all hated that Amendment and did all they could to destroy.
No Blood for Shrimp!
Ron Paul serves the interests of Big Shrimp.
You've got that completely backwards. Whether a congressman votes for or against the underlying spending bill makes all the difference...the earmarks are requested after the spending is authorized
If true, Paul is quite the porkster.
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