Record Contradicts Palin's 'Bridge' Claims

WSJ ^ | September 9, 2008 | ELIZABETH HOLMES and LAURA MECKLER

[meyer]

"And while she did take part in stopping the project after it became a national scandal, she did not return the federal money.'

Maybe the "federal money" shouldn't have been stolen from the taxpayers in the first place.

[Lancey Howard]

And while she did take part in stopping the project after it became a national scandal, she did not return the federal money. She just allocated it elsewhere.

(yawn)

How stupid would it have been to send the money out of Alaska and back into the Washington DC toilet?

This is just another "no there there" story....

[DeLaine]

I know, I was being facetious. ok, ok, SARCASTIC! You caught me

[DJ MacWoW]

It wasn’t even the whole amount. Only about $36 million.

[Fred]

PALIN SHOOTS...SHE SCORES!!!!!

[DJ MacWoW]

Scratch the $36 mill. If I read the article that I posted correctly, it was about $69 million.

[DJ MacWoW]

See post 35. It’s an original story.

[Ilya Mourometz]

Article is wrong; it was $36M and that was not Earmarks, it was FHWA funds, which are from normal allocations to all states. Many states receive quite a bit more than that.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2077758/posts?page=5

[Need4Truth]

So, if elected, are Obama/Biden promising to reign in earmark spending or not?

[DJ MacWoW]

Thank you. :-)

[CharlesWayneCT]

And when McCain ran this ad, he tricked Obama into running an ad attacking Palin for originally supporting the Bridge — implying that ANY support of the Bridge meant you were NOT an agent of change.

But who opposed the Bride in the Senate — John McCain.

And who voted for the Bridge in the Senate — Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

So, by the admission of Obama’s campaign, Obama and Biden are posers who aren’t real change agents, while McCain is.

Palin, on the other hand, DID originally hold Obama’s BAD position (although from her perspective, she was running for the office and didn’t have all the information she would have later as Governor).

But once she WAS governor, and had all the information, she killed the Bridge.

Obama and Biden voted for it.

[KingofZion]

Good example of why earmarks must go - if the money can just be spent on anything then really it is just a gift to a senator’s home state.

More shoddy WSJ reporting. Do they really think their readers appreciate this crap? What happened to business reporting?

[blasater1960]

"Here is former aide to Gov. Sarah Palin, Meg Stapleton, explaining to CNN's Wolf Blitzer the reality of Gov. Palin's role in killing the so-called, "Bridge to Nowhere" in Alaska. Democrats are claiming Gov. Plain is lying about her role in killing the project, saying she actually favored it."

http://blogsforjohnmccain.com/former-palin-aide-alaska-blows-democrats-bridge-attack-palin-out-water-video-9808