Palin Administration Still Pursuing ‘Nowhere’ Project

http://www.propublica.org/article/palin-administration-still-pursuing-nowhere-project-913/


Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has portrayed herself as a foe of pork-barrel spending, pointing in particular to her role in killing the $398 million "Bridge to Nowhere” between Ketchikan (pop. 7,400) and its airport on Gravina Island (pop. 50). I "told the Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks,'" she said in her speech accepting the Republican vice presidential nomination. "If our state wanted to build a bridge, we were going to build it ourselves."

But Gov. Palin’s administration acknowledges that it is still pursuing a project that would link Ketchikan to its airport -- with the help of as much as $73 million in federal funds earmarked by Congress for the original project.

"What the media isn't reporting is that the project isn't dead," Roger Wetherell, spokesman for Alaska’s Department of Transportation, said. In a process begun this past winter, the state’s DOT is currently considering (PDF) a number of alternative solutions (five other possible bridges or three different ferry routes) to link Ketchikan and Gravina Island.

The DOT has not yet developed cost estimates for those proposals, Wetherell said, but $73 million of the approximately $223 million Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) and Rep. Don Young (R-AK) earmarked for the bridge in 2005 has been set aside for the Gravina Access Project.

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And my exasperation with the stupidity and arrogance of these people deepens every day.

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Say it loud, say it proud... everybody now...

LIAR!!!

they put the booshies to shame.

I mean jesus. Just say "Yes I did originally support it, but then when I read more about it, I decided it wasn't the kind of project that my state needed." I mean just say you were wrong. Fuck. How hard is that. I would have more respect for somebody that just admitted they were wrong, rather then trying to continue spinning lies.