My kind of mayor

[Gene Douglas]

EARMARKS
Palin's Small Alaska Town Secured Big Federal Funds

By Paul Kane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 2, 2008; Page A01

ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 1 -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin employed a
lobbying firm to secure almost $27 million in federal earmarks for a
town of 6,700 residents while she was its mayor, according to an
analysis by an independent government watchdog group.

There was $500,000 for a youth shelter, $1.9 million for a
transportation hub, $900,000 for sewer repairs, and $15 million for a
rail project -- all intended to benefit Palin's town, Wasilla, located
about 45 miles north of Anchorage.

In introducing Palin as his running mate on Friday, Sen. John McCain
cast her as a compatriot in his battle against wasteful federal
spending. McCain, the Republican presidential candidate, hailed Palin
as a politician "with an outstanding reputation for standing up to
special interests and entrenched bureaucracies -- someone who has
fought against corruption and the failed policies of the past, someone
who's stopped government from wasting taxpayers' money."
*****
(Hey, looks like the kind of mayor my town could use. Give her a snow
shovel, and put her to work hauling your money to my neighborhood.)

[lubow]

>
> There was $500,000 for a youth shelter, $1.9 million for a
> transportation hub, $900,000 for sewer repairs, and $15 million for a
> rail project -- all intended to benefit Palin's town, Wasilla, located
> about 45 miles north of Anchorage.
>

Of course none of the contractors involved in the construction were GOP donors,
right?

[Gene Douglas]

Well, have a heart. A town of 6,700 might need a transportation hub.
And where else are you going to get a couple of million bucks? And if
6,000 people need $15 million for a rail project, well, you don't
think the railroads have that kind of money, do you? Now you can
breeze from one end of town to the other, all ten blocks, in
practically no time at all.

[lubow]

Look, Gov. Church Lady's job was to siphon off federal funds to pay off all
those contractors who finance the Alaska GOP. If that's what a VP to a sickly
72 year old man does, then she is ok. If we need someone of presidential
quality, then McCain's judgment mechanisms are, to say the least, questionable.

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