Woodstock Museum Funding Nixed (Clinton, Schumer)

WHIO TV ^ | 10-18-07

[STARWISE]

$1 Million Earmark Removed From Health Bill

Plans for $1 million in federal funding for a museum to honor the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival struck a sour note with critics Thursday.

It ended badly, with critics successfully striking down the plan for federal tax money to be spent on the museum.

The plan began as an earmark in the federal health and education spending bill.

Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Chuck Schumer, both of New York, supported the earmark.

Critics, though, targeted the plan after it gained some national exposure.

“The Woodstock museum is a shining example of what’s wrong with Washington on pork-barrel, out-of-control spending,” said John McCain, Arizona senator and presidential hopeful.

“The earmark pork-barrel spending has made the American people disenchanted and angry,” McCain said.

Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz, and Tom Coburn, R-Okla., moved Thursday to strip the Woodstock earmark from the health and education bill.

They won a key 52-42 vote and the earmark was dropped.

Ohio’s two senators were split on the issue, according to The Associated Press.

Sen. George Voinovich voted to kill the earmark. Sen. Sherrod Brown voted to keep it.

In a written statement, Coburn said the health and education bill should fund just that, health and education.

“I’m pleased my colleagues took a bold stand today in defense of common sense and rejected the self-interested parochial politics that have disillusioned millions of Americans. Maybe this is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius for taxpayers,” Coburn said.

The Woodstock museum is due to open next year in the upstate New York town of Bethel.

Supporters of the earmark said the federal funding would spur economic development and tourism.

Critics called it a hippie museum and a taxpayer-funded LSD flashback.

[STARWISE]

Nice try, bozos.

[STARWISE]

Nice ~~PING!

[CTSeditor]

If Hillary and Schumer supported the bill, it must be legit and all good. That, or, donations were made.

[Lancey Howard]

Critics called it a hippie museum and a taxpayer-funded LSD flashback.

LMAO!

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

by the time they got to the woodstock museum, they were have a billion dollars strong.

[LibFreeOrDie]

an earmark in the federal health and education spending bill

"It's for the children."

[STARWISE]

LOL ...

[Thrownatbirth]

Not everyone ate the brown acid.

Let the original performers, those still alive, carry the load. Most are still doing phenomenally well. The Dead, Santana, CSN&Y are all still making the big bucks.

[BallyBill]

Dude, I forgot to support it!

[maine-iac7]

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She wanted to siphon off a cool million from the health and ed bill? But but - what about the children?

We really need to start keeping clips of her spouting off all these behemoths of spending and put it together with how much each one would've cost - and remind people that she would taking that money out of our hides.

Let's see:

*5,000 bond for every child born (4 million born each year.

* "Free" health care for all children living in a household with an income $83,000 or less. (HOW much money and from where? She never answered that.)

$1,000 each for - help me here, what was this one for?

* $1,000,000 for a hippie museum.

If we had a montage of her spouting her give away ideas, along with a couple of Socialist pontifications like the one about taking away from us for the good of the whole (run Marxist words over screen) and put it on YouTube early October, '08 - and an estimate of how much our taxes would go up - Free ad, and she couldn't rebut as it would be herself 'screeding' - and at the end, the clip of that cackle.

Hoist her by her own petard..

[Psycho_Bunny]

Damn.....I could have made a killing in the Gift Shop with commemorative bong key chains.

[armymarinemom]

Some folks never got over the brown acid

[M-cubed]

OK folks...Fess up..

(A) where you there?
(B) Whould you have liked to have been there?
(C) Did u actually know anyone that was there?
(D) How old are you?

[maine-iac7]

Here's the one about taking away from us :

"We're going to take some things away from you for the common good."

hillary, The Washington Times February 22, 2007

Pure Marx

[Brandie]

Thank God they stopped this vile thing. I pray they never build it.

[goodnesswins]

Donations WERE made....the next day.....wonder if they’ll return them?????

[Brandie]

(A) where you there?...NO
(B) Whould you have liked to have been there?...NO
(C) Did u actually know anyone that was there? ...NO I would nevere associate with a hippie, as far as I am concerned they are a waste of good air.
(D) How old are you? ...does not matter, there are still hippies today ie. code pink etc. and then their kids that are grown ( more hippies)

[madison10]

Critics called it a hippie museum and a taxpayer-funded LSD flashback. LMAO!

The critics would be correct. :)

[Eva]

The most interesting thing about the Woodstock donation is that it was the Woodstock founder’s money that Norman Hsu was handing out to his fellow countrymen to donate to the Hillary campaign.

Can you say quid pro quo?