Posted on 09/02/2008 6:16:58 PM PDT by markomalley
Gov. Sarah Palin on Friday axed about 10 percent of the spending that state legislators approved for hometown projects.
This is the second year in a row Palin vetoed projects dear to legislators. She said lawmakers stuffed the $2.7 billion state capital budget too full.
"There were things like dealing with killer shrubs and Zamboni blades that are not the state's highest priority at the time," Palin said on Friday.
She cut $43,000 from the budget for landscaping at Klatt Elementary in South Anchorage. A legislative document justified the money, saying "the risk of a child impaling themselves is substantial." Palin also vetoed a Homer Zamboni blade sharpener.
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Anchorage Republican Rep. Kevin Meyer, Stedman's counterpart in the House, said Palin vetoed things she told legislators were safe.
"Those are obviously going to cause the most heartburn with legislators," Meyer said.
ARTIFICIAL TURF AND POLAR BEARS
But Anchorage Democratic Rep. Mike Doogan said legislators were in "sort of your classic feeding frenzy" in putting the capital budget together.
"It's smaller now that she's done some vetoing, but I still think it's too big," Doogan said.
Palin's $268 million in vetoes hit dozens of projects across the state. She reduced funding for things like artificial turf at Service and Palmer high schools, expansion of Covenant House for homeless and runaway youths in Anchorage and support of the group Arctic Power's lobbying in Washington, D.C., to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil development.
Palin eliminated other projects entirely. That includes study of a second bridge between Juneau and Douglas Island, a Cook Inlet Housing Authority community center for seniors, Ketchikan Little League batting cages and big utility projects through the Railbelt Energy Funds.
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A pro-Palin thread on FR? Is there a blue moon?
GOOD!
I like slashers.
Ha! There’s another thread stating that Palin cut funding to the Covenant House, which helps house teen moms (what a hypocrite alert). It made it sound like she was slashing their already-established budget. Looks like, in reality, it was cutting increases in their funding.
Only 10%. I expect more when she is president.
“• Anchorage Dolly Parton Imagination Library — $90,000”
Please tell me this is a joke.
Ms. Parton has to have made lots of money in her entertainment career, and there must be resources available to her besides TAX DOLLARS if this is an urgent cause of hers.
I smell pork barrel.
Go, Sarah!
Way to go Governor Veto!
I think Covenant House helps runaway and street YOUTH. Don’t know about teen moms. As for “being a hypocrite” about that, the teen mom she is concerned about is her own daughter. Covenant House should look for donations. It started out as a Catholic charity. Where’s the Archbishop on this?
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This thread needs to be posted again and again.
She allowed Covenant House’s govt. funding to triple in two years according to their IRS records. She slashed nothing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravina_Island_Bridge
They run the numbers that show it was a boondogle, which are also far too hard for a 'rat to comprehend.
Looks like she’s annoying the entrenched pigs at the trough in her own state!
I’m in love!
“....She slashed nothing.”
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With apparently what will turn out be a lot of effort, maybe one day you might learn to read with comprehension.
for starters:
“Palin’s $268 million in vetoes hit dozens of projects across the state.”
That isn’t “nothing”.
And she probably bakes great cookies.
Send this to Fox news. Rush, and anyone else you can?
Oh wait, I’m sure they will be all over this by morning. /s
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