Wasilla city earmarks list, Palin's scribble in margin.Sarah Palin, reformer extraordinaire, didn't pay the Washington lobbyist for nothing while she was mayor of Wasilla. Those darned earmarks she and McCain rail against paid off handsomely for her little hamlet - nearly $27 mil. Of course, there's the little inconvenience of the fact that some of those Wasilla earmarks were specifically targeted by McCain back then as wasteful spending.
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.
But it didn't seem to stop Palin - hell, what was she paying that lobbyist for anyway?
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Reckon either the NYT or WaPo will run a major piece on "the many creepy contradictions of Sarah Palin" this weekend? I'm not sure all the fragmented bits that are out there at present have been well laid out yet to feed the nation's need to engage in some synchronized vomiting....
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