Posted on 09/06/2008 12:55:37 PM PDT by Chet 99
$8.5MM to build a barrier to prevent "Asian carp" from breeding in lake Michigan.
$3MM for a planetarium movie theater.
$400K for a Latino Studies program
$1MM for a museum wing for "indigenous peoples."
$1M for renovation of a "children's museum"
$3.5M to expand a small IL airport for use by "corporate aircraft"
$500K to Rockford College for "classroom enhancement"
There's a lot more, but many of them are politically correct (i.e. millions in academic grants to improve minority test score performance, etc.).
But, in total, he's requested one-third of a billion dollars in earmarks for 2008 alone.
Guy who requested $740 million in earmarks on Palin: You can’t really be for change if you’re pro-earmark
Indeed. To truly represent change, you have to request earmarks for your wife’s employer.
I was hoping against hope that he’d come after her on this point. And now, my dream’s come true.
he's probably just glad that she's not throwing zingers at him... isn't that what he said about her speech at the RNC? what a joke...
And, it also greatly increases the stature of the VP candidate in question.
I watched most of that townhall meeting today. The truth is, he devoted only one or two sentences to Palin with one swipe about the earmarks. He didn’t even get as detailed as the short article above did.
Personally, as a small gov’t/free market conservative, I have a lot of concerns about Palin. But I expect we’ll learn much more in interviews and debates. I’m not sure how she can defend the earmarks.
She said she was against ABUSE, not all.
and then, what a coincidence, her salary was tripled!
Never mind, it was for good performance on the job. Haha.
Sounds like you pronounce it as what Obama would say when requesting an incision on Michelle.
Heh.
Did he mention that $1M earmark his wife's place of bidness got? And the big raise SHE got?
I am sure we are all okay with Republican Earmarks.
It is only the Democratic Earmarks that we must oppose.
I suspect the “bridge to nowhere” was a republican earmark........and Sarah properly struck it down.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Gov. Palin would have never done such a thing. Here we have the Obama Campaign and the MSM is what is an obvious lie claiming as governor Palin hung on to 27 million dollars for Sen. Ted Stevens' Bridge to Nowhere.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
He sure is!
He claims McCain's campaign director is a big lobbyist yet doesn't mention that his running mate, Plugs has a son who is also a big lobbyist!
The article claims that Sarah kept 27 million dollars for the “Bridge to Nowhere” that was never built!
The DNC and Obama Campaign must be feeding this information to the press.
“He describes John McCain’s running mate as a “skillful politician,”
I thought she had no experience.
article says it was kept to build the approach road....did they? was the road useful for anything else? this article really isn’t very informative. just another attack with no fact checking
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