Live from the Bridge to Nowhere...

After visiting 27 states and dozens of pork-barrel earmarks from Vermont to San Diego and Florida to Wyoming, the Ending Earmarks Express has now visted the granddaddy of all pork-barrel earmarks... the infamous Bridge to Nowhere in Ketchikan, Alaska. As you'll see in the accompanying video we shot on the ferry between Ketchikan and tiny Gravina Island in a remote section of southeastern Alaska, there's really no need to spend $223 million federal taxpayer dollars on a bridge longer than the Golden Gate and taller than the Brooklyn Bridge.

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[rockit1]

this is sad ....we need leaders in this country !!!!

[hiwaymanx]

All politicians are in on the scam to grab taxpayers money. Voting doesn't make a difference, since there is only one party, traitors.

[NoAbomination]

CNN article 09/23/08:Although Democratic vp candidate Joe Biden routinely mocks his Republican counterpart, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, for her onetime support of the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere," Biden and his running mate voted to keep the project alive twice. Both Biden and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama voted to kill a Senate amendment that would have diverted federal funding for the bridge to repair a Louisiana span badly damaged by Hurricane Katrina, Senate records show.

[steve-n-lisa joseph]

i thought is was the bridge to russia inwhich i do support,with there help though?

[martatay]

the bridge doesn't connect ketchikan with the mainland, but with another island that has the airport on it.

[AFPFoundation]

Actually, McCain voted AGAINST the original bloated transportation bill that included the earmark. Then there was a vote on an amendment to kill that one earmark and send the money to Louisiana for Katrina relief -- Obama and Biden voted AGAINST that amendment. McCain wasn't present for the vote.

[david1122321]

McCain did vote for it actually.

[66barry]

Fact is Obama and Biden Voted FOR this Bridge. Mccain did'nt!

[4teirah]

Oh rockit1, how prophetic your words appear to be! What kind of leaders is the real question. I hope more people see this video.

[redbloof]

it has just 50 people

[Miron111111]

this simply sucks. I think the cost analysis based off of loonie journalist with political agenda is the worst thing that can happen.

I think bridge linking an island with 7000 people with mainland and "brodge to nowhere" is a vast difference. Now, if for instance these 7000 people happen to own any significan land in the vicinity, that brings to our country coffers untold riches, denying them bridge is a national tragedy.