Which is why she wants the Bridge to Wasilla. Cuts down her commute time.
Breaking: Same Lobbyist, Another Bridge, TO WASILLA. Updated w/Silver background & Digg Link
by pattisigh
Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 07:05:51 AM PDT
It seems that Governor Palin's favorite lobbyist is also working on another bridge.
This one leads straight to the the most famous Alaskan Barracuda's back yard...yup, yup...Wasilla
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washingtonindependent.com...
Wasilla’s All-Purpose Lobbyist
Town Lobbyist Is 'Bridge to Nowhere' Lobbyist
By Mike Lillis 9/4/08 9:09 PM
Steven W. Silver, a Washington lobbyist who began representing the small town of Wasilla during Palin’s tenure as mayor, is also lobbying for construction of a controversial bridge linking Anchorage to the borough housing Wasilla, according to lobbying disclosure records.
That proposed span — dubbed "Don Young’s Way" after Alaska’s lone House member — gained notoriety in 2005, when Young and Sen. Ted Stevens (R) fought to earmark hundreds of millions of federal dollars for it and another controversial bridge connecting Ketchikan, Alaska (pop. 7,300), to an island airport. Both became symbols of wasteful federal spending, and were widely ridiculed as "Bridges to Nowhere."
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On Wednesday, Palin told the GOP faithful gathered in Minneapolis for the Republican National Convention, "I told the Congress ‘thanks but no thanks’ for that ‘Bridge to Nowhere.’ If our state wanted a bridge, we’d build it ourselves."
OOPS. As soon as the Bridge to Nowhere became a laughing stock, I guess Sarah figured it should be replaced with yet another bridge right to Wasilla.
I think it's obvious WHY THE CLOCK STARTED RUNNING upon her selection as VP last week to the present, to have her sit down with the press. So many questions and no one to answer them.
But she hasn’t come out against "Don Young’s Way." In fact, the Palin administration has plans to hire an outside contractor to estimate what the project would cost, according to a June report from The Anchorage Daily News. The contractor alone is expected to run the state $200,000, the report said. The bridge itself has been tagged at between $450 million and $1.5 billion.
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