subtee -> RE: President Palin? (8/29/2008 9:16:59 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Thadius Uhm... because state legislatures decide what goes into a budget? I could be crazy and have that wrong. She still wanted the bridge and she still wanted federal help. You read it, yes? "So she was very much for the bridge and insisted that Alaska had to act quickly—the party of Ted Stevens and Don Young might soon lose its majority, after all. By that point, the project was endangered for reasons that had nothing to do with Palin—the bridge had become a national laughingstock, Congress had stripped away the offending earmark, shifting the money back to the state's general fund, and future federal support seemed unlikely. True, after Palin was sworn into office that fall, her first budget didn't allocate any money for the bridge. But when the Daily News asked on December 16, 2006, if she now opposed the project, Palin demurred and said she was just trying to figure out where the bridge fit on the state's list of transportation priorities, given the lack of support from Congress."
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