John McCain, Tell Sarah Palin to Give Back the Bridge Money
John McCain, Tell Sarah Palin to Give Back the Bridge Money
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravina_Island_Bridge
"On August 29, 2008, when introduced as Republican Presidential nominee John McCain's running mate, Palin told the crowd: "I told Congress, thanks but no thanks on that bridge to nowhere" — a line that garnered big applause but upset political leaders in Ketchikan. Palin's campaign coordinator in the city, Republican Mike Elerding, remarked, "She said 'thanks but no thanks,' but they kept the money." Ketchikan's Democratic Mayor Bob Weinstein also criticized Palin for using the very term 'bridge to nowhere' that she had said was insulting when she was in favor of the bridge.[34]
Although Palin was originally a main proponent of the bridge, McCain–Palin television advertisements since September claim Palin "stopped the Bridge to Nowhere".[35][36] Howard Kurtz called this a "whopper", writing: "She endorsed the remote project while running for governor in 2006, claimed to be an opponent only after Congress killed its funding the next year and has used the $223 million provided for it for other state ventures."[35] These claims have been widely questioned or described as misleading in several newspapers across the political spectrum.[37][38][39][40] Newsweek, commenting on Palin's "astonishing pivot," remarked: "Now she talks as if she always opposed the funding."[41]
McCain has also weighed in on the Gravina Island Bridge. In advertisements, McCain labeled the bridge as wasteful spending. [42] and in an August 2007 townhall speech recorded on video[43] and quoted again on April 30, 2008,[44] he blamed the tragedy of the Minneapolis I-35 bridge collapse on the Bridge to Nowhere. His advertising and comments which before September 21, 2006 contradicted Governor Sarah Palin's support of the bridge drew the attention of the media,[45] when he chose Palin as his running mate."
Comment
Sarah Palin, return the $223 million bridge money back to the United States Treasury. America needs the money with the financial crises. Since you refused to build the bridge, keeping the money intended for the bridge is fraud.
Alaska has billions of dollars in surplus funds and is a state financially in enviable better shape than most states in America. In 2008, you are even returning returning more than $3,000 to each of the 600,000 citizens of Alaska from surplus. In Alaska, you do not even have state income tax or sales tax.
Sarah Palin by not returning the $223 million your state seems greedy and you do too.
John McCain, by saying you would veto pork like the Alaska Bridge to Nowhere, why not tell everyone that you will seek refunds from pork projects that are refused or not started in a reasonable amount of time.
America, write to John McCain and Sarah Palin. Tell them to return the $223 million that was paid to Alaska by the Federal government as the first payment to pay for the Bridge to Nowhere. Alaska does not need the money as much as the Federal Government does. It is the right thing to do.
Also if she wants credit to refuse the Bridge, she does not deserve it until she returns the money. Whenever Sarah Palin mentions refusing the Bridge, everyone within earshot should ask her why did she keep the money?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravina_Island_Bridge
"On August 29, 2008, when introduced as Republican Presidential nominee John McCain's running mate, Palin told the crowd: "I told Congress, thanks but no thanks on that bridge to nowhere" — a line that garnered big applause but upset political leaders in Ketchikan. Palin's campaign coordinator in the city, Republican Mike Elerding, remarked, "She said 'thanks but no thanks,' but they kept the money." Ketchikan's Democratic Mayor Bob Weinstein also criticized Palin for using the very term 'bridge to nowhere' that she had said was insulting when she was in favor of the bridge.[34]
Although Palin was originally a main proponent of the bridge, McCain–Palin television advertisements since September claim Palin "stopped the Bridge to Nowhere".[35][36] Howard Kurtz called this a "whopper", writing: "She endorsed the remote project while running for governor in 2006, claimed to be an opponent only after Congress killed its funding the next year and has used the $223 million provided for it for other state ventures."[35] These claims have been widely questioned or described as misleading in several newspapers across the political spectrum.[37][38][39][40] Newsweek, commenting on Palin's "astonishing pivot," remarked: "Now she talks as if she always opposed the funding."[41]
McCain has also weighed in on the Gravina Island Bridge. In advertisements, McCain labeled the bridge as wasteful spending. [42] and in an August 2007 townhall speech recorded on video[43] and quoted again on April 30, 2008,[44] he blamed the tragedy of the Minneapolis I-35 bridge collapse on the Bridge to Nowhere. His advertising and comments which before September 21, 2006 contradicted Governor Sarah Palin's support of the bridge drew the attention of the media,[45] when he chose Palin as his running mate."
Comment
Sarah Palin, return the $223 million bridge money back to the United States Treasury. America needs the money with the financial crises. Since you refused to build the bridge, keeping the money intended for the bridge is fraud.
Alaska has billions of dollars in surplus funds and is a state financially in enviable better shape than most states in America. In 2008, you are even returning returning more than $3,000 to each of the 600,000 citizens of Alaska from surplus. In Alaska, you do not even have state income tax or sales tax.
Sarah Palin by not returning the $223 million your state seems greedy and you do too.
John McCain, by saying you would veto pork like the Alaska Bridge to Nowhere, why not tell everyone that you will seek refunds from pork projects that are refused or not started in a reasonable amount of time.
America, write to John McCain and Sarah Palin. Tell them to return the $223 million that was paid to Alaska by the Federal government as the first payment to pay for the Bridge to Nowhere. Alaska does not need the money as much as the Federal Government does. It is the right thing to do.
Also if she wants credit to refuse the Bridge, she does not deserve it until she returns the money. Whenever Sarah Palin mentions refusing the Bridge, everyone within earshot should ask her why did she keep the money?
posted by God Bless America - Bob at 1:16 PM
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