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Senate/Assembly Pork: Who's Getting The Choicest Cuts?

Times Union | Times Union | Posted 09.03.2009 | New York

Read More: Pork Barrel, New York State Senate, Grants, New York State, Pork Barrel Spending, New York State Assembly, Pork, New York, Legislation, New York News

Under Democratic control of the Senate, upstate lost nearly $26 million in member items, the discretionary grants doled out by legislators commonly ca...

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Bear DNA and John McCain's Silly Science

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Earmarks, Pork Barrel, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Mccain Bear Dna, Politics News
Robert Schlesinger

We've all heard John McCain's tired joke about the pork barrell spending on bear DNA (a paterniy issue or a criminal one -- so funny the first dozen t...

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Flashback: Steve Carrell Nails McCain On Pork-Barrelling

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 10.11.2008 | Media

Read More: John McCain, Daily Show, Pork Barrel, John McCain Earmarks, Jon Stewart, Steve Carrell, Pork Barrel Spending, Sarah Palin, Steve Carell, Media News

Back when the media was allowed to question him, a certain sharp-eyed journalist caught McCain on not always being so maverickly anti-earmark.

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The Real Sarah Palin Scandal

Robert Silvers | Posted 10.02.2008 | Home

Read More: John McCain, Pork Barrel, Earmarks, Bridge to Nowhere, Palin Bridge to Nowhere, Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska, Pork Barrel Spending, Alaska, Pork, Home News
Robert Silvers

The real scandal for John McCain's V.P.-to-be is that Palin has exhibited a voracious appetite for the very congressional earmarks and pork barrel spending that John McCain has made a signature issue of trying to stamp out.

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