Alaska town opens ‘road to nowhere’ (AP)

Nambe

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Sat Sep-20-08 08:13 PM
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Alaska town opens ‘road to nowhere’ (AP)

Source: The Associated Press

... The state this week completed a $25 million gravel road that was intended to lead up to the bridge linking the city of Ketchikan to its airport on a neighboring island.

The bridge project became the symbol of federal largess, and Congress eventually dropped the earmark for the bridge.

The state still received the money, but Gov. Sarah Palin _ who once supported the bridge _ killed the project.

Ketchikan Mayor Bob Weinstein says the road now is ideal for road races and hunting. But with no bridge to serve it, that's probably about it.

Read more: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/sep/20/alaska-town-opens-road-to-nowhere/

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bigworld

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Sat Sep-20-08 08:43 PM
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1. Well if I were an Alaska taxpayer

Edited on Sat Sep-20-08 08:43 PM by bigworld

I'd be pretty upset that the state just wasted $25 million

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harmonicon

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Sat Sep-20-08 09:11 PM
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2. oh, those WERE your taxes at work

No way in hell did that money come from Alaska - that came from pork barrel federal budget earmarks that you and I pay for.

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Pete2069

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Sat Sep-20-08 10:56 PM
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5. These are federal funds so you paid for it too.

While our roads and bridges crumble away...

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Pete2069

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Sat Sep-20-08 11:04 PM
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6. This is "YOUR" money paying for the bridge to Nowhere

While our roads and bridges crumble away...

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110ap_road_to_nowhere.html

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's transportation department has
completed a $25 million gravel road leading to the site of a
bridge that Palin, as John McCain's vice presidential
candidate, now boasts that she stopped, so as to save
taxpayers money. The road was built with federal tax dollars.

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here_is_to_hope

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Sat Sep-20-08 09:33 PM
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3. Man, I would build a jump ramp at the end of that

thing and just WOOOSH! Right over to that island I would fly!

I wonder what it would have cost to move the airport?

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struggle4progress

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Sat Sep-20-08 10:17 PM
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4. Another Palin triumph! Completing the road to the nonexistent bridge to nowhere!

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OakCliffDem

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Sun Sep-21-08 05:26 AM
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9. Palin is the politician to nowhere. n/t

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AllyCat

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Sat Sep-20-08 11:25 PM
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7. Hmmmm....maybe we should go back to AK for a vacation and use

that road we paid for. That's what Mr AC says anyway.

CNN is reporting this on their top-and-bottom of the hour reports, but fails to include Palin's name in the discussion.

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Politicalboi

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Sun Sep-21-08 02:13 AM
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8. See it only costs

25 million rather than hundreds of millions. She said "Thanks but no thanks " Nothing to see here. And why did they print that SHE killed it? Oh because she did. :sarcasm:

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