Hillary Clinton secured more earmarks for pet projects in the Defense funding bill than anyone except Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin, according to an article in The Hill.
It puts her total at 26 earmarks worth $148 million. Barack Obama has one. John McCain disapproves of earmarks, which escape normal scrutiny, and has none.
“She has learned how to play the game and to use her power on the committee to bring home dollars for her constituents,” Steve Ellis of Taxpayers for Common Sense tells The Hill. “She knows how to toot her own horn with the constituents, and that will likely play into her national campaigns.”
Among the needy constituents and worthy projects:
"Clinton’s beneficiaries include defense giant Northrop Grumman, which secured $6 million for the AN/SPQ-9B radar; New York-based Telephonics, which won $5 million for a standardized aircraft wireless intercom system for the National Guard Black Hawk helicopter fleet; Plug Power Inc., another New York state company, which got $3 million for fuel cell power technology; and Alliant Tech Systems (ATK), which won $3.5 million for the X-51 B robust scramjet research. ATK is based in Utah, but it has a tactical propulsion-and-controls division in Ronkonkoma, N.Y."
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Plug Power,Inc. wasn't that recently in the news due to its rip-off deal with fat boy Richie Kessel at LIPA? Hillary giving our tax dollars to a thieving politically connected corporation.