re: #148 efuseakay

What’s the deal with the “pork”? How much is there, if any?

The Sandy pork storm

* $150 million for Alaskan fisheries.

* $8 million for cars for the Homeland Security and Justice departments.

* $2 million for the Smithsonian to repair roofs damaged before Sandy

Possibly but a sniff test of the list going around probably not much pork. It’s really easy to spin these lists dishonestly. For example the “Alaska Fisheries” thing is probably some sort of joint research project involving habitat, fisheries studies, stocking programs, etc.