Thread: Earmarks in the Amnesty Bill: Trading Votes for Pork

June 27th, 2007

http://robertbluey.com/blog/2007/06/27/ ... -for-pork/

Earmarks in the Amnesty Bill: Trading Votes for Pork

There are all sorts of goodies in Sen. Harry Reid’s clay pigeon amendment, but two pork projects — one in Utah and the other in Alaska — stand out. Why? Three of the senators who would benefit from the earmarks voted in favor of cloture yesterday.

Let’s begin in Utah, where Republican Sen. Bob Bennett would get a satellite U.S. attorney office in St. George, Utah. “The primary function of the satellite office shall be to prosecute and deter criminal activities associated with illegal immigrants,â€

this is not surprising. Those people who live in those areas need to send notes to their senators that bring home the pork is not going to work while you are voting to destroy america.