Sarah Palin is No Reformer
Today the Wall Street Journal took aim at one of the bedrocks of the McCain –Palin campaign, Sarah Palin’s Earmark fighting reputation. Sarah Palin has claimed to have slashed earmarks and even rejected the Bridge to Nowhere.
It is difficult to compare Sen. Obama’s earmark record with Gov. Palin’s — their states differ in size, for instance, and the two candidates play different roles in the process. But using the same calculation that the McCain campaign uses, the total amount of earmarked dollars divided by the number of working days while each held office (assuming a five-day workweek, every week, for both), Gov. Palin sought $980,000 per workday, compared with roughly $893,000 for Sen. Obama.
The McCain campaign has an excuse, masquerading as an “explanation.”
Mr. Bounds, the McCain campaign spokesman, called this an “apples and oranges comparison” because Sen. Obama sought more than Gov. Palin and because she cut earmark requests.
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