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Just about everyone in Walla Walla can name a favor or two that House Speaker Tom Foley has done, with taxpayer dollars, for someone or some business that they know. But what once was praised as "constituent service" these days also goes by the name of "pork." An unusual number of voters in eastern Washington State -- and in the districts of other powerful Democrats across America -- claim that they are looking beyond the local benefits of federal largess and pondering what it's costing the country to have 435 Congressmen and 100 Senators each forcing the government to keep open...
...hard to judge how serious this talk really is. While they like to think of themselves as flinty and self-reliant, Westerners are in fact heavily dependent on the Federal Government for agricultural subsidies, military bases, hydroelectric power and water projects. As Foley's constituents talk dismissively about pork in one breath, they complain about Clinton Administration efforts to increase grazing fees in the next...
...they were were finishing up their last cups of coffee, talk shifted to politics. Four of the five said they had voted for Foley in the past. This year none of them plan to. Ironically, the Speaker's effectiveness was one of the reasons why. "It's basically pork. Even though we live here, it just isn't right," said Bob Johnston, 37. They also think of Capitol Hill as a place where no favor is done for free. Foley knows who to lean on and which string to pull, they agreed. "But what did he give away...
...dead, white male," Mansfield said. "My wife was 'Big Government.' She wore a stuffed red costume and carried bacon which symbolized pork...
...poll in his eastern Washington district, published Sunday in the Spokane Spokesman-Review, found Foley had climbed to within two points of Republican George Nethercutt, 44-46. With the error margin, it's a dead heat. The poll follows Foley's newest strategy: reminding Spokane-area residents that the pork stops if he loses. BTW: Foley's message might be sinking in: a recent poll that found 30 percent of the district's voters thought a freshman Nethercutt would become House Speaker...