April 17th, 2008
The Daily Oink: We’re All Going To Disneyland Edition
Posted by
Rob Port in
Pork Barrel
Your daily dose of government waste news:
- Texas Congressman denies any wrongdoing for directing earmarks to an Alabama company that contributed tens of thousands of dollars to his campaign
- New Jersey Congressman who earmarked $624,000 for his wife’s employer denies wrongdoing
- Congressman has spent more than $1 million on legal fees to fend off federal investigations into earmarks, political favors, and campaign contributors
- With Nevada facing multi-billion shortfall in basic highway and transportation funding, Nevada Senator earmarks billions to develop a magnetic levitation train between Las Vegas and Disneyland
- Most earmarks are not effective according to poll of newspaper readers and 78% said they should be banned
[…] little anger might be what you need. The Oink Report says hundreds of thousands of our tax dollars go to earmarks that should be eliciting […]