Obama’s earmark requests estimated at $860 million
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has requested $860 million in special federal spending projects, commonly referred to as earmarks, since taking office as a senator, according to an analysis released this evening by a nonpartisan budget watchdog group.
“We have had a lot of questions about earmark requests and there are a bunch of numbers going around,’’ Taxpayers for Common Sense Vice President Steve Ellis stated in an email explaining why the analysis was conducted.
Obama requested 326 projects between 2006 and 2008, but has not requested any for the 2009 fiscal year that starts Oct. 1, according to the findings.
The Illinois senator requested $321.8 million last year for fiscal 2008, but only obtained $98.6 million.
10:51 a.m. Friday update: Steve Ellis of Taxpayers for Common Sense confirms that his organization has found that Republican presidential candidate John McCain made no requests for earmarks over the same period of time.
“McCain is easy,’’ Ellis wrote in an email. “Zero requests, zero awards.’’
Here’s the link to the report:
http://taxpayer.net/resources.php?category=&type=Project&proj_id=1321&action=Headlines%20By%20TCS
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Now, this is more fair and balanced. Someone will analyze this, for sure. Now we also need Biden’s earmarks.
How many earmarks were received by Wasila, Alaska and the State of Alaska under Palin’s leadership? Then take those figures and compare it to population of the state of Alaska and the State of Illinois.
This is the biggest smokescreen I have ever seen in American politics. The single greatest earmark debacle in American history was a bridge to no where, that Palin campaigned on. And in the end, when it didn’t happen, she still kept the money for the state. She also hired the king of Pork’s former staffer (Ted Stevens) as a lobbying to bring home the bacon.
The hypocrisy is unreal.
Palin campaigned on a “bridge” not the massive boodogle
bridge that the congress appropriated..that she was against
as a waste of money..so she in fact stopped the bridge to
no where…the fact that other monies went to alaska
for other reasons is not a rebuttal of her stopping
a waste of taxpayers dollars from happening…and as
for the real issue..the candidate for President is John McCain..HE TOOK ZERO DOLLARS FOR HIMSELF AND ARIZONA
and he will stop the practice entirely when he is president
And he will be President..you can take that to the bank
Nothern Westchester is among those who thinks that if one does enough twisting, they can become Chubby Checker.
Chubby had the hits. Northern Westchester has the misses.