Republican presidential candidate John McCain cites three absurd-sounding examples of pork-barrel spending in a recent ad: a "bridge to nowhere," a study of the DNA of bears and a Woodstock museum.
McCain is known for fighting against earmarks, the other term lawmakers use for funding of pet projects back home. But he appears to have chosen these three because they're easy to mock, not because he had significant involvement in removing them from the budget.
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He never specifically went after the "bridge to nowhere," and he was absent for key votes on its funding.* While he tried to cut money for several other projects in the same bill,
he never proposed cutting the bear study and voted for the final bill containing it.
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He wasn't present for the most important votes on the Woodstock museum, including one on an amendment he co-sponsored to kill the earmark and divert some of the funds.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/18/mccain-voted-for-earmark_n_119651.html
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