McHenry pushes $129K earmark for X-mas tree
This is why CONGRESS’ approval rating is down to 14%. America doesn’t believe either side has any integrity left. Lawmakers say one thing and do another!
Politico-Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) was all over the House floor last week, bashing Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) and other Democratic leaders for not doing enough to disclose member earmarks early in the appropriations process, as Democrats had promised when they took over the House in January. Republicans eventually got Democrats to back down and release the earmark requests — read “pork” — earlier than Obey had planned, so McHenry got what he wanted. And now McHenry will be forced to defend his $129,000 earmark, via the Small Business Administration, for Christmas trees.
Actually, the $129K is to go to the The Mitchell County Development Foundation, “a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating jobs and strengthening the educational system, as well as promoting tourism in Mitchell County.”
