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« The Pork List | Main | Blackburn Endorses Thompson » May 25, 2007Porky Pigs
Although the memo from Fitzhugh's office to House members regarding making requests for community enhancement grants explicitly stated that "No list should include grants totaling more than $100,000," six Democrats and one Republican couldn't help themselves and requested more. The king of the porkers: state Rep. Les Winningham, D-Huntsville, who filed a request for "community enhancement grants" totaling $570,000. Also on the Porky Pig List: State Rep. Mike Kernell, D-Memphis. The chairman of the Government Operations Committee requested $106,500. State Rep. Mary Pruitt, D-Nashville, who requested $105,000. State Rep. Bill Harmon, D-Dunlap. who filed three separate requests totaling $104,000. State Rep. Phillip Pinion, D-Union City. The chairman of the House Transportation Committee and the West Tennessee Caucus requested $101,000. State Rep. Dolores Gresham, R-Somerville, requested $100,917. Total Democrat requests above the allotted amount: $558,500. One other interesting thing I noticed in the stack of requests that Fitzhugh's office released to the public yesterday: A copy of Rep. Fitzhugh's written requests was not included. That's a curious omission as the AP summary of the grants requests says Fitzhugh has requested money for "Senior citizens center, volunteer fire department, rescue squads, community development." Posted in Tennessee Government News
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Bill, the Gresham thing kind of surprises me. I've heard her name mentioned as a candidate for Wilder's seat next year. Sharing Naifeh's pork won't help her with all those conservatives over there next year. Posted by: dan at May 25, 2007 4:09 PM It would be interesting to see how many of these projects would have been adopted by the county or municipal government if the lions share of the sales taxes was not already being consummed by the state. Letting the richer and more able to pay state fund local projects is just an extension of the ability to pay arguement that drives the BEP formula and other socialist concepts. Post a comment
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Perusing the list of pork projects for which most members of Tennessee's state House are seeking funding I noticed something: A few legislators couldn't keep their requests within the $100,000 allotted to each member under House Finance committee chairman Craig Fitzhugh's "community enhancement grants" project.