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Candidates' Earmarks Worth Millions - Only McCain Abstained
washingtonpost.com — Hillary Clinton helped secure more than $340 million worth of home-state projects in last year's spending bills, placing her in the top 10 Senate recipients of what are commonly known as earmarks, according to a new study by a nonpartisan budget watchdog group. Clinton supported four times as much spending on earmarked projects as Senator Obama.
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- DanThePainter, on 02/14/2008, -0/+3At Captain's Quarter's Blog: >...Clearly, the race in November will pit two very different kinds of philosophies against each other. McCain has spent his career trying to control federal spending and fighting the kind of corrupting influence pork brings to Congress. Barack Obama has rationalized its use by limiting it to "public entities". Hillary hasn't even bothered to limit her use of earmarks, which led to the embarrassing revelation of the Woodstock Museum pork that would have cost taxpayers a million dollars.
With both Clinton and Obama planning on adding over $200 billion per year as president in new federal programs, they show themselves as typical statist, top-down spenders. Their track records show that they have spent more time spending our money than in solving problems. Barack Obama's one legislative achievement -- besides pork spending -- has been the Coburn-Obama spending database. Hillary Clinton hasn't even done that much. Neither one has even attempted to pursue their presidential agendas during their time as legislators, but they've found the time to redirect almost half a billion dollars into the pockets of their political support......>> more >>
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/01 ... - lobster1, on 02/15/2008, -0/+1Quote: "Working with her New York colleagues in nearly every case, Clinton supported almost four times as much spending on earmarked projects as her rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.), whose $91 million total placed him in the bottom quarter of senators who seek earmarks, the study showed."
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