EARMARKS! Who Opposes Earmaks? Alaska Has Sought 31 Earmarks Worth $197.8 Million in Next Year’s Federal Budget. (Congress, campaign)

[walidm]

How will the Governor's hand out to Government (the Citizens, our taxes) work with Senator McCain's policy of No Earmarks?

PALIN: “I suspended the state fuel tax, and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress.” - Republican National Convention

ALASKA HAS REQUESTED $589 MILLION IN PORK SINCE PALIN TOOK OFFICE & AS MAYOR, SHE HIRED WASILLA’S FIRST FEDERAL LOBBYIST TO SECURE EARMARKS FOR THE TOWN.Over $589 Million in Federal Pork Requests During Palin’s Tenure as Governor. According to Citizens Against Government Waste, www.cagw.org, under Palin’s tenure as Governor the state of Alaska has asked for $589,599,715 in pork barrel projects. [2007 and 2008 Pig Book, www.cagw.org]

Alaska Has Sought 31 Earmarks Worth $197.8 Million in Next Year’s Federal Budget. “But under her leadership, the state of Alaska has requested 31 earmarks worth $197.8 million in next year’s federal budget, according to the website of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), the former chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.” [LA Times, 9/1/08]

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[TuborgP]

Wonder if President McCain will cross them out and call out the governor responsible for working with her congressional delegation to get them.

[Who?Me?!]

Originally Posted by walidm

How will the Governor's hand out to Government (the Citizens, our taxes) work with Senator McCain's policy of No Earmarks?

PALIN: “I suspended the state fuel tax, and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress.” - Republican National Convention

ALASKA HAS REQUESTED $589 MILLION IN PORK SINCE PALIN TOOK OFFICE & AS MAYOR, SHE HIRED WASILLA’S FIRST FEDERAL LOBBYIST TO SECURE EARMARKS FOR THE TOWN.Over $589 Million in Federal Pork Requests During Palin’s Tenure as Governor. According to Citizens Against Government Waste, www.cagw.org, under Palin’s tenure as Governor the state of Alaska has asked for $589,599,715 in pork barrel projects. [2007 and 2008 Pig Book, www.cagw.org]

Alaska Has Sought 31 Earmarks Worth $197.8 Million in Next Year’s Federal Budget. “But under her leadership, the state of Alaska has requested 31 earmarks worth $197.8 million in next year’s federal budget, according to the website of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), the former chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.” [LA Times, 9/1/08]

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Ya know, from now on the only question about Palin will be "Did she lie or did the campaign lie for her?"

[walidm]

She appears to know a lot about the part of Washington that works for her.

[sacredgrooves]

Where is the line in the article that said she requested them, and not the Alaskan Congress members? Does a Governor have power over the Senators to deny earmarks? I ask in all seriousness as I do not know the answer.