“So, a city or a state cannot lobby for federal money?”
Only if its to become a “chocolate city” and then the number must be in the BILLIONS to rebuild on the coast and under sea level.
No, a republican cannot.
If we could only get the media to look into Barack Obama’s back ground with the same fervor and passion.
I expect the mayor of a small town to seek federal money -- are they arguing that she was pulling strings?? She was a nobody -- but apparently an extremely effective nobody. I say good on her.
I guess we should look at Obama ear marks and his payoffs. Resko and Michelle Obama. Most towns apply for Federal money non Story.
Did she ask for any funds for her friends like Obama?
Just damn!
They are throwing everything at her, along with the kitchen sink!
Ah, another blatant attempt to turn conservatives against the McCain-Palin ticket.
It sounds like she was just doing her job.
If people have problems with that much federal grant money being available, they need to address that problem at the source.
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,
So basically the article is sayiong she did her job? What the people elcted her to do? I’m okay with that..
The one thing I do have a problem with is terms such as Federal earmarks Federal funds Federal money. The FEDERAL GOVERNMENT has no money. It makes no money, it quite honestly earns no money. Any money the Federal Government has originally came from the very people it gets back to. Such as the town Palin represented as mayor
Sarah has never said she is against earmarks. She is against WASTEFUL earmark spending. The vast majority of this money sounds like it was spent on infrastructure needs.
The federal government consistently constrains Alaska’s revenue by denying permission for drilling.
Palin has made the point that Alaska would love to become more self sufficient if the feds would allow more exploitation of natural resources, AND boost energy production for the good of the nation. (CNBC interview with Maria Bartiromo)
http://www.cnbc.com/id/26462569?__source=RSS*blog*&par=RSS
I guess the MSM isn't interested in those...
So they admit the mayor did her job, and did it well.
At least she didnt keep the money in a plastic wrap in the freezer.
All the left is doing is pointing out that Palin has experience and Obambi has never voted for a darn thing.
He was “Present.”
Obama’s Chicago Annenberg Challenge (per wikipedia): $139 million to improve education with this outcome.
“Results suggest that among the schools it supported, the Challenge had little impact on school improvement and student outcomes, with no statistically significant differences between Annenberg and non-Annenberg schools in rates of achievement gain, classroom behavior, student self-efficacy, and social competence.”
Obama is good at spending other people’s money without result.
What people do not know is that Wasilla is the hub of many small communities located in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley that has had its roads and infrastructure built in the 70’s and with our arctic conditions roads here barely last 5 years, population has exploded just outside of Wasilla in new housing tracts and thus schools had to be built.
I have seen it all for over a decade up front as I manage a concrete batch plant in Wasilla, all federal funding was sorely needed and we desperately need more because every day people keep moving here and now I expect a veritable stampede that will be almost like the gold rush days because Wasilla is in the international spotlight.