The one true statement we heard last night.
As we have all heard John McSame say so many times about earmarks and wasteful spending.
"I Will Make Them Famous And You Will Know Their Names"
-John McSame
Hmmmmmm...Sounds like someone who's name we all now know... Governor Sarah Palin.
After listening to the lies, slanders, and bullshit we heard over the last few days from the Re-Thug-Lican's...
The one true statement that McSame said is that we will know their names... Hmmmmmm...Sounds like someone who's name we all now know well... Governor Sarah Palin.
Plucked from obscurity, now we all know her name.
Folllow me after the flip to find out why we SHOULD know her name. The Irony is amazing... They are trying to pull a fast one on the American People.... In the words of Barrack Obama - "Not This Time"!
As ABC News Details:
FACT: While serving as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, Palin hired Steven Silver, a former chief of staff for Sen. Ted Stevens, to lobby Congress for earmarks. Wasilla received around $27 million in federal money, about as much as Boise, Idaho. Boise has a population of 200,000 people, compared with Wasilla's 10,000. Earmarked funds went to sewage improvements and improving roads connecting the town to a local ski resort.
FACT: As for the Bridge to Nowhere, Palin initially supported using federal funds to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to Gravina Island, which has 50 residents and a small airport. It was not until the plan was ridiculed that she withdrew her support. Critics contend she still supports using federal money to build a 3.4 mile Road to Nowhere on the island for $26 million -- from the funds for the bridge.
Please see reporting from ABC News for source information.
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As the Chicago Tribune Details:
In 2001, McCain's list of spending that had been approved without the normal budget scrutiny included a $500,000 earmark for a public transportation project in Wasilla. The Arizona senator targeted $1 million in a 2002 spending bill for an emergency communications center in town -- one that local law enforcement has said is redundant and creates confusion.
McCain also criticized $450,000 set aside for an agricultural processing facility in Wasilla that was requested during Palin's tenure as mayor and cleared Congress soon after she left office in 2002. The funding was provided to help direct locally grown produce to schools, prisons and other government institutions, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan watchdog group.