NPR says Ron Paul leads in earmarks. Say it ain't so!!!!

[PrismPaul]

NPR's story today: here http://www.npr.org/blogs/bryantpark/...upporters.html

Said (at 3:53 in) about Ron Paul:

"He proposed more earmarks for his district than any other member of the local Houston area delegation. He proposed 65 earmarks including renovation of a shuttered movie theater, and wild shrimp marketing..."

Anybody know if that's got any validity? Nothing in Article 1, section 8 about hometown movie theaters.... I have to believe this is wrong.

[allyinoh]

NPR's story today: here http://www.npr.org/blogs/bryantpark/...upporters.html

Said (at 3:53 in) about Ron Paul:

"He proposed more earmarks for his district than any other member of the local Houston area delegation. He proposed 65 earmarks including renovation of a shuttered movie theater, and wild shrimp marketing..."

Anybody know if that's got any validity? Nothing in Article 1, section 8 about hometown movie theaters.... I have to believe this is wrong.

OMG this has been debunked so many times!!! And also explained by Paul himself. Look it up.

[PrismPaul]

OMG this has been debunked so many times!!! And also explained by Paul himself. Look it up.

Thanks for that helpful post, allyinoh.

I did look it up, and it is TRUE. But also incomplete.

From Dallas Morning News (Wednesday, June 27, 2007)

"Tom Lizardo, a Paul aide, said Mr. Paul has always asked for spending for his district in response to local requests.

"He feels the IRS takes the money and so it's [his] job to make sure money comes back in the district," Mr. Lizardo said.

However, Mr. Paul usually votes against final spending bills containing his earmarks when they reach the House floor. So far this year he has voted against funding bills for military construction, veterans and state-foreign operations. He did not cast a vote when the Homeland Security and legislative funding bills were on the floor.

Many lawmakers feel they are better off requesting funding for specific projects in their districts rather than waiting for a bureaucratic agency to decide which project is funded. Mr. Paul agrees, Mr. Lizardo said. "

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...1.43bdd5f.html

So he puts earmarks in and then votes against the bills. Fair enough. Small detail for NPR to leave out.

(allyinoh - you should be nicer to newbies. I have thick skin, but someone else who is trying to participate for the first time here could really be turned off from that kind of post. After all, this is supposed to be the place to post bad reporting instances, and this instance had not yet been posted, as far as I could see.)