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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (135373)	9/9/2008 6:24:02 PM
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just that the right has disdain for every other welfare mother that makes the same choice. Bristol Palin is cut from the same cloth Bristol Palin is hardly a welfare mother - she's the daughter of a family doing well enough to take care of her without government assistance. Besides she will be getting married soon and her husband will then be supporting her and the child. Palin cuts funds to assist with teenage pregnancy. You've once again bought into the poorly reported facts - she actually raised the amount by 3x. What's been reported is she cut it from the proposed 5 million to 3.9 million which was 3x higher than the amount of 1 million the year before. Please try to get your facts correct - you're looking like a partisan hag. Covenant House Alaska grant income received from the State of Alaska: (2006) $1.2 million (2007) $1.3 million (2008) $3.9 million In 2008, Covenant House Alaska asked the state for $10 million to assist in the building of a new $22 million facility. The legislature appropriated $5 million, and Governor Palin used her line-item veto to limit this year’s grant INCREASE to $2.6 million (a total grant this year of $3.9 million). Additional money will be allocated for this capital expenditure project over the next few years, a phased-in grant rather than all the money at once. This was confirmed in a quote from the Executive Director of Covenant House Alaska, Deirdre Cronin: “Despite some press reports to the contrary, our operating budget was not reduced. Our $3.9 million appropriation is directed toward a multi-year capital project and it is our understanding that the state simply opted to phase in its support for this project over several years, rather than all at once in the current budget year.”