Palin Administration Still Pursuing ‘Nowhere’ Project

[SHRED]

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This ought to be a leading news story.
"Reformer"?...yeah...sure.

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Palin Administration Still Pursuing ‘Nowhere’ Project
by Paul Kiel, ProPublica - September 13, 2008 1:19 pm EDT

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has portrayed herself as a foe of pork-barrel spending, pointing in particular to her role in killing the $398 million "Bridge to Nowhere” between Ketchikan (pop. 7,400) and its airport on Gravina Island (pop. 50). I "told the Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks,'" she said in her speech accepting the Republican vice presidential nomination. "If our state wanted to build a bridge, we were going to build it ourselves."

But Gov. Palin’s administration acknowledges that it is still pursuing a project that would link Ketchikan to its airport -- with the help of as much as $73 million in federal funds earmarked by Congress for the original project.

http://www.propublica.org/article/palin-administration-still-pursuing-nowhere-project-913/


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[libodem]

1. Thanks but no thanks my ass

they might not have built that bridge but they kept the money and spent it on other projects. Lies and deception.