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September 19, 2005

Maine's Pork

This is just a great idea. Find pork in your state or congressional district, point it out on the web, and contact your senators and representatives about it.

It's pretty easy to find pork in Maine, since our senior senator tends to brag about it on her press release page. So, without further ado, these are just the ones I found while on my lunch break:

$57,500 for the Moosetown Riders, Inc. to purchase a snowmobile trail groomer

$38,000 to the St. Croix Economic Alliance to conduct a feasibility study to identify potential benefactors for the Downeast Heritage Center

$22,000 to the Portland Stage Company to support the production of a play entitled Yemaya’s Belly by Quiara Alegria Hudes.

$20,000 to the Center for Cultural Exchange to support a commissioning, production, and touring initiative titled Unintended Consequences. The director will create a multimedia performance based on the repercussions of September 11, 2001, in the lives of refugee and immigrant communities in Maine.

$25,000 to the Alice James Poetry Cooperative, Inc. to support the publication and promotion of poetry titles selected from two annual competitions and a new and selected poetry collection by Donald Revell.

$44,600 grant to Hancock County Commission to provide technical assistance to increase recycling and composting

$850,000 to Southern Midcoast Maine Chamber in Brunswick to help construct a new structure to serve as their tourist Information Center and provide administrative office space

$555,000 to Knox County to improve air service. The grant, awarded under the Small Community Air Service Development Program, will be used to provide eight island communities off the coast of Rockland with service to the mainland

Grand total: $1,610,000.

That's just a start. If you'd like to contact members of our congressional delegation to ask them to give up some of their pork to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina, here is that information:

Senator Olympia J. Snowe
154 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510-1903

Senator Susan M. Collins
172 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510

Representative Tom Allen
(1st District)
1630 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515

Representative Michael Michaud
(2nd District)
437 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515

Signed letters work better than emails, and remember to be polite.

Posted by slublog at September 19, 2005 12:41 PM

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Comments

This is just federal pork, right? I'd be interested to see too what kind of pork state legislators are putting into the state budgets. I think it's a toss-up which budget is more screwed up, Maine's or Indiana's.

Posted by: MainiacJoe at September 19, 2005 02:51 PM

It is just federal. The state budget would be all sorts of fun, I think.

Posted by: Slublog at September 19, 2005 04:11 PM

Okay, so this is like a "Therapist" thing? You made these up, right? It's satire. Oh, whew. You fooled me. What a riot!


Oh, no, wait. I think you were serious. Gulp.

Posted by: Partisan Pundit at September 19, 2005 08:26 PM

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