Forbes.com claimed Palin "oppos[es]" earmarks -- but her administration "request[ed] 31 earmarks,

[tannybogus]

from 54 last year."

Forbes.com's Brian Wingfield asserted that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin "shares McCain's opposition to earmarks." However, in a Juneau Empire op-ed, John Katz -- Alaska's director of state-federal relations and special counsel to Palin -- wrote that in 2008, the Palin administration "request 31 earmarks, down from 54 last year."
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Wingfield also wrote that Palin "oppos the infamous 'Bridge to Nowhere.' " However, Media Matters for America has noted that while Palin canceled the project for a proposed bridge between Ketchikan, Alaska, and Gravina Island in September 2007, Palin reportedly supported it during her 2006 gubernatorial campaign and suggested that Alaska's congressional delegation should continue to try to procure funding -- which was authorized by the federal government in 2005, but never appropriated -- for the project.

From Wingfield's August 29 Forbes.com article:
Palin also shares McCain's opposition to earmarks, opposing the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere," a pet project of two titans of Alaska politics, Rep. Don Young and Sen. Ted Stevens.

"I told Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks' on that Bridge to nowhere," said Palin, who describes herself as a foe of the "good-old-boy network."
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http://mediamatters.org/items/200808290024

She's ready to be a Rethug VP right now. Lyin' dog!

[dkf]

1. Seriously...what kind of vetting did they do?

Isn't it SOP to review all this stuff?

[tanyev]

2. He's Maverick John McCain! He doesn't have to vet.

He just shoots from the hip and makes his decisions from the gut! Got it?