So much for the reformer image that is being promoted by McCain. She's more of the same, with independent-minded Alaskans gobbling up almost nine times the national average in federal pork money. Yes, oil rich Alaska can't figure out how to survive on it's own and needs the most money per person in the US. That's as bad as the freeloading corporate welfare types who always want cuts for everyone else. If she can't figure out how to run an oil rich economy without such lavish handouts, how can she possibly step in on day one to run a Republican damaged budget in Washington?
John McCain touts Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as a force in the his battle against earmarks and entrenched power brokers, but under her leadership the state this year asked for almost $300 per person in requests for pet projects from one of McCain's top adversaries: indicted Sen. Ted Stevens.
That's more than any other state received, per person, from Congress for the current budget year, and runs counter to the reformer image that Palin and the McCain campaign are pushing. Other states got just $34 worth of local projects per person this year, on average, according to Citizens Against Government Waste, a Washington-based watchdog group.
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