No wonder that Sen. Stevens keeps getting re-elected. He gives more money per capita than any Senator. I hope this guy gets hammered. Alaska was suppose to join the Union and not cost tax payers a dime. I guess they decided to change their policy up North. From Citizens Against Government Waste.
CAGW has brought widespread attention to Sen. Ted Stevens’ (R-Alaska) lengthy record of securing special interest, pork-barrel projects following his indictment by the Justice Department at the end of last month on seven counts of failing to disclose $250,000 worth of gifts from a corporate benefactor. Sen. Stevens helped take home a total of 1,452 pork-barrel projects worth $3.4 billion between 1995 and 2008, and Alaska has been the number one state in pork per capita every year since 1999. Some of Sen. Stevens’ more infamous earmarks include $25 million for a supercomputer to study how to trap energy from the aurora borealis; $750,000 for grasshopper research; $500,000 for the Alaska Spruce Bark Beetle Task Force; $200,000 for the city of North Pole for recreation improvements; and $176,000 for the Reindeer Herder’s Association. Sen. Stevens also defended the $223 million earmark for Alaska’s notorious “Bridge to Nowhere” on the Senate floor in 2005, threatening to resign his seat if Congress removed funding for the bridge. “The incarceration of two members of Congress and the conviction or confession of numerous staff members in relation to earmarks has done nothing to rein in the proliferation of pork on Capitol Hill. This latest allegation about the abuse of power will be ignored at members’ peril,” warned CAGW President Tom Schatz. Read more about Sen. Stevens' indictment. See his "Pork Tally."
View some of the media coverage of CAGW's statistics and comments on Sen. Stevens' pork barreling in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Scotsman, USA Today and The Washington Times.
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