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To: combjelly who wrote (412771)	9/2/2008 9:10:08 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573930

This article doesn't quite tell it like it was. The fact of the matter is that Palin did not support the bridge after the pricetag increased (as government project pricetags ALWAYS do) by $329 Million leaving it woefully short of funding. Any competent administrator would have done precisely the same thing. One can point to huge highway projects now underway solely because some legislators somewhere down the road wanted the funding for it. The entire I69 corridor project is a perfect example -- not NEEDED -- not anywhere nearly so much as merely fixing up existing Interstates I40/I55/I45/I30/I20 and others I'm sure both of us can name. It is, unfortunately, a by-product of a screwed up system in which Congressmen represent their districts by bringing home the bacon. That Palin opposed the bridge after the cost escalation gives her every right to claim it just as she did. It certainly isn't a flip flop in the sense of the humongous flip flops of Obama's. And it isn't a "lie".