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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (416165)9/10/2008 4:11:48 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1588485
 
"Hardly - in the end Barry and Biden voted for it"

Waving your hands again.

"she merely picked up in the middle of the process what her predecessor had started - until she realized it was not needed."

She ran for governor using it as one of her planks. She only dropped it when it was obvious that Congress wasn't going to fund the whole thing. She regretted the necessity of dropping it.

"You do know local politicians are supposed to fight for money for their State at the trough or government."

Correct. But, if you do it, then claiming you are against earmarks later is a lie.