November 16, 2005

Bridge to Nowhere Defunded

By Adam Groves
Blake Wylie reports that the so-called "Bridge to Nowhere" has been defunded. In the strange bedfellows category, the stripped earmarks was made possible by a joint effort against the bridge between the Club for Growth and the Sierra Club.

Radley Balko says despite this victory, it means very little to the real porkbusting efforts:

All the conference committee did was remove the earmark for the bridges. Alaska will still be getting the same obscene amount of money from the federal government, it's just that the state won't be required to use it to build those two particular bridges. It'll be up to the executive and the state legislature to decide how to spend it.