Tag: earmarks
NO more earmarks, really!
While the first item on the state republican agenda is to limit access to the polls for Wisconsinites, the national republicans do not have it so easy. the “tea party” crowd has let it be known they want a ban on all earmarks. The republicans have long talked of an…
Ron Johnson sought stimulus funds for Oshkosh Opera House
Back in June, I wrote that during Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ron Johnson’s tenure as a member of the Oshkosh Opera House Foundation Board of Directors, the Oshkosh Grand Opera House received a $500,000 earmark in the 2009 state budget, a budget that started with a $6.6 billion deficit over…
Does Ron Johnson support that $500,000 earmark for his opera house?
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ron Johnson thinks our government has been on a spending spree, and he’s made it clear that if he’s elected to the U.S. Senate, he’s going to work to cut government spending. There’s no mention of earmarks on Johnson’s website, so it’s not clear whether he…
Sens. Feingold, McCain, Coburn & Gillibrand propose earmark database
On Tuesday U.S. Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK), John McCain (R-AZ), Russ Feingold (D-WI), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) introduced the “Earmark Transparency Act of 2010,” a bill that meets President Obama’s call during his most recent State of the Union address for Congress to create a single, searchable database of all…
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