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To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (80817)8/30/2008 12:37:18 PM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 542243
 
Fairbanks paper:

Referring to her speech today, the paper noted, "There was also some pandering right from the start. 'I told Congress, Thanks but no thanks on that bridge to nowhere,’ Palin reported to the crowd in Dayton, Ohio. 'If our state wanted a bridge, I said, we’d build it ourselves.'

"But the state kept the bridge money. That’s because Alaskans pay federal gas taxes and they expect a good share to come back, just like people do in every other state. We build very little by ourselves, and any governor who would turn that tax money down likely would be turned out of office."



To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (80817)8/30/2008 3:13:35 PM
From: Sam  Respond to of 542243
 
It's was all over the news that she was the person that killed the project.

It was one of the big Republican talking points, yes. But if you listen Alaskan journalists, you get a very different picture. She killed it only after she welcomed it, and then it "sadly" became politically impossible to accept it.

She still took the money that Young and Stevens got for it. The best of all possible worlds--get a few hundred million dollars with no strings attached.


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