"Palin 'bridge to nowhere' line angers many Alaskans"

This is just another example of McCain's poor judgment in making a gut decision to choose Palin on Thursday. Here is more information regarding why Palin's opening speech about the Bridge to Nowhere is full of shit, and how Alaskans feel that she is now throwing them under the bus after arguing forcefully in favor of the bridge:

Palin "bridge to nowhere" line angers many Alaskans

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080901/pl_nm/usa_politics_palin1_dc_1;_ylt=AkUlVGf09dXwVkK3MQwvHN7Za7gF

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The bridge, a span from the city to Gravina Island, home to only a few dozen people, secured a $223 million earmark in 2005. The pricey designation raised a furor and critics, including McCain, used the bridge as an example of wasteful federal spending on politicians' pet projects.

When she was running for governor in 2006, Palin said she was insulted by the term "bridge to nowhere," according to Ketchikan Mayor Bob Weinstein, a Democrat, and Mike Elerding, a Republican who was Palin's campaign coordinator in the southeast Alaska city.

"People are learning that she pandered to us by saying, I'm for this' ... and then when she found it was politically advantageous for her nationally, abruptly she starts using the very term that she said was insulting," Weinstein said.

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The state, however, never gave back any of the money that was originally earmarked for the Gravina Island bridge, said Weinstein and Elerding.

In fact, the Palin administration has spent "tens of millions of dollars" in federal funds to start building a road on Gravina Island that is supposed to link up to the yet-to-be-built bridge, Weinstein said.

"She said 'thanks but no thanks,' but they kept the money," said Elerding about her applause line.

Former state House Speaker Gail Phillips, a Republican who represented the Kenai Peninsula city of Homer, is also critical about Palin's reversal on the bridge issue.

"You don't tell a group of Alaskans you support something and then go to someplace else and say you oppose it," said Phillips, who supported Palin's opponent, Democrat Tony Knowles, in the 2006 gubernatorial race.

A press release issued by the governor on September 21, 2007 said she decided to cancel state work on the project because of rising cost estimates.

"It's clear that Congress has little interest in spending any more money on a bridge between Ketchikan and Gravina Island," Palin said in the news release. "Much of the public's attitude toward Alaska bridges is based on inaccurate portrayals of the projects here."

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the wind blows. Its no wonder she magically wants every rejected political proposition,
No real intelligent person believe the wrong side of every argument.

Republicans have no idea who their voting for.

It will only get worse for her as Hillary and surrogates pound her into the ground. :D

I must say I am stunned at how brazenly McBush and his sidekick lie.

Say anything that is convenient at the moment to pander to votes and throw both Republicans, Democrats and your own constituents under the bus. Indeed, it is funny that her whole national campaign messages is that all her colleaguges in Alaska are corrupt except for her, which is kind of like McCain.

The Two Hypocrite Twins at Twin Cities. How appropriate.

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