crooksandliars.com - 9/6/2008
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After finishing as a runner up for Miss Alaska 1984, Sarah Palin went on to be crowned the state’s Queen of Earmarks and its Empress of Fiscal Irresponsibility.
Wonk Room : Sarah Palin: Earmark Queen Of The Earmark State
In 2000, Sarah Palin, as mayor of the Alaskan town of ...
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She's An Earmark Killer Queen
Jesus' General —
I was going to write a parody to mock and otherwise satirize the Earmark Queen of Alaska when it occurred to me that Freddie Mercury/Queen's lyrics were absolutely perfect just as they were. Carry on! ++++
Stop the presses
The Sideshow —
... . They're trying to treat Palin as a fresh, uncorrupted face of the newly reformed RNC, when in fact she is typical of the last eight years - a spendthrift, ...
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Sarah Palin: Earmark Queen Of The Earmark State
thinkprogress.org 9/4/2008 — In 2000, Sarah Palin, as mayor of the Alaskan town of Wasilla, hired a Washington lobbyist to secure federal earmarks for her community.
This is not totally atypical in her state. Alaska’s government receives more money per capita in federal ...
McCain Opposed Palin Earmarks —
Drudge Retort
Three times in recent years, John McCain's catalogs of "objectionable" spending have included earmarks requested by Sarah Palin during her tenure as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska. Her town of 6,000 people received $11.9 million in earmarks from 2000 to 2003.
McCain v. Palin on Wasilla Earmarks —
Angry Bear
The spend-and-spend record of former mayor Sarah Palin gets better and better as reported by the Washington Independent . But I should let McCain’s trolls that hang out at this blog know I learned about this from Josh Marshall so they can complain that Josh is a liberal. After all – reality has ...
More on Palin and Earmarks —
Outside The Beltway | OTB
It appears that while Sarah Palin was busy hiring lobbyists to get Congress to provide earmarks to the small town of Wasilla, John McCain was fighting her earmarks.
For much of his long career in Washington, John McCain has been throwing darts at the special spending system known as earmarking, ...
Palin's Legacy —
Daily Kos
When Sarah Palin left office as mayor of the village of Wasilla, she not only left behind the $27 million in federal earmarks that she finagled for her tiny hamlet, she left behind a legacy that would make even Ted Stevens proud. From the 2003 "mission and goals" of the city of Wasilla: ...
Sarah Palin, Earmark Queen —
Outside The Beltway | OTB
Steven Taylor has an excellent rundown of Sarah Palin’s reliance on earmarks during her tenure so far as governor and especially during her tenure as the Mayor of Wassila. Of particular interest to me in the articles linked is this piece:
In fiscal year 2002, Wasilla took in $6.1 million ...
Pork-Barrel Palin, The Earmark Champ —
Pundits Blog
Now John McCain learns, as we do, that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) sent a 70-page memo to Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) in February seeking $200 million for new Alaska earmarks, and as mayor of the village of Wasilla she lobbied hard for and won more than $26 million of earmarks.
If you believe ...
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