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Palin's Small Alaska Town Secured Big Federal Funds

Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News found this 9/2/2008 on washingtonpost.com

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.