This little piggy …

[Joanne98]

Just a sample of McCain’s pork for Arizona:
In 2006, John McCain teamed up with fellow Arizona senator Jon Kyl (R) to funnel $10 million toward the University of Arizona for an academic center named after the late Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist. Even Arizona lawmaker, Rep. Jeff Flake (R), said he was planning to “lean against the measure.” The National Taxpayers Union, a traditional McCain ally, questioned why the senator was making federal taxpayers foot the bill for the center.

In 2003, McCain also slipped $14.3 million into a defense appropriations bill to create a buffer zone around Luke Air Force Base in Arizona. As Roll Call reported in 2003, this project violated McCain’s own anti-pork rhetoric.

“Buffer zone?”

http://katestone.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/this-little-piggy/

[midnight]

1. That phrase "Buffer zone" is confusing.