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  • Which Congressman Wants $8 million to "market" wild American shrimp? [Ron Paul: King of Pork!]

    08/06/2007 3:09:22 PM PDT · by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle · 451 replies · 5,651+ views
    Redstate.com ^ | 08/06/07 | Erick
    It's in a subscribers only link at the Wall Street Journal. The Congressman wants $8,000,000.00 to pay for marketing of wild American shrimp and $2.3 million to fund research into shrimp-fishing. These are but two of the Congressman's 65 earmarks sought thus far this year to the tune of $400,000,000.00. HIs chief spokesman pulled a Tom DeLay and said "Reducing earmarks does not reduce government spending, and it does not prohibit spending upon those things that are earmarked," the spokesman said. "What people who push earmark reform are doing is they are particularly misleading the public -- and I have...