Palin is building road to the (nonexistent) bridge to nowhere

[Enrique]

very good use of federal tax money. People can take the road to go see the place where the bridge to nowhere would have been built.

By the way, don't call it the bridge to nowhere, Palin when she was running for Gov. said that was insulting to the nowhere folk.

http://www.adn.com/sarahpalin/story/511471.html

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The Alaska governor campaigned in 2006 on a build-the-bridge platform, telling Ketchikan residents she felt their pain when politicians called them "nowhere." They're still feeling pain today in Ketchikan, over Palin's subsequent decision to use the bridge funds for other projects -- and over the timing of her announcement, which they say came in a pre-dawn press release that seemed aimed at national news deadlines.

"I think that's when the campaign for national office began," said Ketchikan Mayor Bob Weinstein on Saturday.

Meanwhile, Weinstein noted, the state is continuing to build a road on Gravina Island to an empty beach where the bridge would have gone -- because federal money for the access road, unlike the bridge money, would have otherwise been returned to the federal government.