Last year, Palin requested more earmarks per person than any other state

[elehhhhna]

GOP vice presidential candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin touts her record as a reformer who worked to end the "abuses of earmark spending in Congress." But Palin has embraced earmarks from early on in her career as a mayor of Wasilla to the governor's mansion in Juneau. Just this year she sent to Sen. Ted. Stevens a proposal for 31 earmarks totaling $197 million — more, per person, than any other state.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008154532_webpalin02m.html

[tekisui]

1. Perfect! One sentence says it all.

Those are what lasting sound bites are made of. I hope Biden uses that.

[Jim__]

2. Miss Earmark 2008.

:shrug:

[d_b]

3. rec this

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

4. What they say and what they do is always different.

This is why she can't afford tobe interviewed.

[MrMonk]

5. Alaska's reliance on federal money should be talked up as an issue

regarding Palin's fiscal experience. Alaska runs on oil and gas, federal money, some tourism/hunting/fishing, and what else? Does anyone know?

[Historic NY]

6. Yes sir she will do great taking taxes from other states for her own...

earmarks, pork, members items, members initiatives are all funded by the US taxpayer. Alaska's Palin believes its should pay its residents from taxes on oil company profits and then take hand outs from the lower 48 too. Isn't that socialist policy.

[PA Democrat]

7. Great article. I recommend everyone read so they can counter the "reformer" myth.

More from the article:

Palin's requests to Congress came at a time of huge federal deficits, while Alaska state revenue was soaring due to rising oil prices and a major tax increase on oil production that Palin signed into law in late 2007.

As a result, Alaska this year was in such a money-flushed condition — with no state income tax or sales tax and total state revenues of $10 billion, double the previous year's — that Palin gained legislative approval for $1,200 cash payments to every Alaskan.

In addition, each Alaska resident gets an annual dividend check, about $2,000 this year, from Alaska's oil-wealth savings account, known as the Permanent Fund, now fattened to more than $35 billion.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008154532_webpalin02m.html

[L. Coyote]

8. Don Young, "the King of Pork," and Sarah Palin , "the Queen of Pork"

Now I have to go find that nickname thread.