Since the night of her acceptance speech, Sarah Palin has proudly touted the fact that she said, "thanks, but no thanks" to Congress for the money to build the bridge to nowhere.
In actuality, Sarah Palin supported the bridge while running for Governor of her state because to do otherwise according to another quoted Alaska governor - Bob Weinstein - was political suicide.
So, while John McCain first began scolding his fellow politicians about earmarks back in 2005 to include the bridge for over 200 million dollars to a town of 50 people, Palin was running on a platform to win the governor seat saying Alaska's voters should support their congressional leaders because they are bringing money home to Alaska.
Then, when Palin became Governor, she rejected the bridge only there was no bridge to reject at that point because John MCain's efforts to stop the bridge and the outrageous earmarks had embarrassed the Alaska Reps to reword what the money would be for in the legislation they were earmarking to receive the money from.
Palin DID accept the earmarked money that was originally for the bridge. She just used the same amount of money (I don't know the exact amount but it's over 200 million dollars) for other pet projects in her state.
Since this "thanks, but no thanks" nonsense is a main pillar to her stump speech we need to be armed with the real story and let people in on what really happened.
The fact Mc Cain chose her also speaks volumes since he has to know she was supporting the bridge in the beginning just to get elected and then still took the money from the Federal Government.
Please get the word out, Palin took the money and ran when it was offered from Congress.
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