May 24, 2007

The Pork List

Thursday afternoon I placed a call to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research and alerted them that state House Finance committee chairmen Craig Fitzhugh's office had finally made copies for the public of the legislators' pork requests - which Fitzhugh's office had insisted for days that they would not do. A few hours later, the whole PDF file is on the web. Warning: It's a 1149-page PDF file. Here's the TCPR press release. File the pork list away for future reference. Have some fun with it. Cross-reference your legislator's pork requests with his or her campaign donations records, past and future. See if any legislator gave some of your tax dollars to a campaign contributor.