ProPublica: Palin Administration Still Pursuing ‘Nowhere’ Project

"Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has portrayed herself as a foe of pork-barrel spending, pointing in particular to her role in killing the $398 million 'Bridge to Nowhere” between Ketchikan (pop. 7,400) and its airport on Gravina Island (pop. 50). I 'told the Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks,'' she said in her speech accepting the Republican vice presidential nomination. 'If our state wanted to build a bridge, we were going to build it ourselves.' But Gov. Palin’s administration acknowledges that it is still pursuing a project that would link Ketchikan to its airport -- with the help of as much as $73 million in federal funds earmarked by Congress for the original project."

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