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MN Gov. Pawlenty Questions McCain's Stance on Bridge Collapse
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem May 02, 2008 08:56am |
| Category | News |
| News Date | May 02, 2008 08:55am |
| Description | Updated 11:15 p.m.
By Juliet Eilperin and Michael D. Shear
Sen. John McCain today attempted to clarify comments about the collapse of a bridge in Minneapolis, saying that he never intended to say that federal budget earmarks were the cause of the fatal collapse of the span.
Responding to reporters as he traveled through Iowa, the presumptive GOP presidential candidate said he only meant to say that earmarks divert money away from necessary projects toward unneeded pork-barrel ones.
"When you divert money to projects that are unneeded and unwanted, any project that is deserved is not going to receive the funding that's necessary," he said, according to a report from CBS News. "And I will maintain again that I believe that when you fund a bridge to Alaska or you fund a highway in Florida that the people there don't even want, then money is diverted from much needed projects."
In Pennsylvania yesterday, McCain said the Interstate 35W bridge collapse last summer resulted from the fact that lawmakers have consistently spent taxpayers' dollars on items aimed at bolstering their political standing back home
"The bridge in Minneapolis didn't collapse because there wasn't enough money," McCain told reporters. "The bridge in Minneapolis collapsed because so much money was spent on wasteful, unnecessary pork-barrel projects." |
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