He compiles some sort of list of groups which are given way too much money for way too little.
Essentially, he's done a great thing by "calling out" officials for their waste.
Now this is embarrassing. It seems that John McCain's soulmate has also made his anti-earmark "pork list".
Three times in recent years, McCain's catalogs of "objectionable" spending have included earmarks for this small Alaska town, requested by its mayor at the time -- Sarah Palin.
Oops. But hey, it's not like Palin was the first Wasilla mayor to go after federal money, right?
Wasilla had received few if any earmarks before Palin became mayor. She actively sought federal funds -- a campaign that began to pay off only after she hired a lobbyist with close ties to Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), who long controlled federal spending as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. He made funneling money to Alaska his hallmark.
Yeah, she's quite the anti-pork, anti-lobbyist maverick. It's too bad the McCain campaign is now refusing to answer questions about the vetting process because it would be nice to know if they knew about this.
