The Daily Oink: Government-Funded White Water Rafting Trips Edition
Your daily dose of government waste news, courtesy of The Oink Report.
- Chicago aquarium “sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars in net assets” received $1.8 million in earmarks from members of Congress who received campaign donations from Aquarium officials
- Miami Beach Teen Club used part of a $50,000 earmark to take club members white water rafting in Tennessee; “That’s a lot of white water rafting trips,” joked Congresswoman who requested the money
- Mississippi Congressman earmarked $478,492 to examine the feasibility of establishing a medical school that the Commissioner of Higher Education says that state has no intention of opening
- Members of Congress from New York promise to earmark millions of dollars to transform a bridge into the longest walkway bridge in the world
- Alaska village may be relocated at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars; Most of exploratory work being paid for with $4.2 million Congressional earmark
- Obscure Florida road leads to controversy
- “The Road to Somewhere Shady”
- Congressional ethics group calls Senate vote for DOJ investigation into earmark scandal is “nothing more than Kabuki theater given the likely constitutional impediment to a Justice Department investigation”
