Sherrod Brown Refuses to Release List of Pet Projects
WASHINGTON (CNN) — When it comes to elected officials and earmarks, the policy seems to be the less said the better.
This time the cold shoulder is coming from the Senate, which, like members of the House of Representatives, don’t want the public to know which pet projects they want taxpayers to fund.
Since Monday, CNN has called — or tried to call — all 100 senators, asking them if they would release their 2008 earmark requests. More often then not, calls were immediately sent to voice mail and never returned.
Only six senators gave us their requests and six said they made no earmark requests. Eighteen said they would not give us their requests and 70 did not return calls. (See how your senator responded)
Last week, of 435 members of the House of Representatives, 312 did not respond to our requests. Of the remainder, 47 gave us their requests, 68 said they would not and six said they had not made earmark requests.
That pdf file shows that Senator Brown’s office flat out refuses to turn over his list of pork projects that he is securing funding for. Why the big secret, Senator Brown?
It’s also a shame that Senator Voinovich’s office didn’t call CNN back. Maybe the phone lines were busy, as George was busying calling out to radio stations and giving radio interviews that make Mike Coleman’s “don’t question my manhood” Glenn Beck interview sound good.
