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Originally Posted by firstdown
From what I have read the media is twisting around what I think an earmark is in the first place. She asked for funds from her state for her state. Most earmarks I hear of is someone wanting federal funds to pay for their state pet projects. You don't here people calling them earmarks if someone ask for federal funds to pay for federal projects.
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You're right in the sense that all earmarks have been portrayed as evil and that's just not the case. Bachmann's particular problem is that she guided nearly $250K in farm subsidies to her father-in-law's farm, which she's also a partner. I think somewhere in the neighborhood of $260K. Her filings show that a small portion of that may have gone to her. Nothing illegal or improper happened there, I'm sure. But she's just not the poster child for small government and fiscal responsibility that she so adamantly claims.
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