Many thanks to our friends at the Sunlight Foundation for recognizing our efforts here at Georgia Porkbusters.

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The Club for Growth has released the RePORK card for 2007, up to this point, which rates Congressman on the fifty anti-pork amendments that have been offered.

Here are some examples of targeted pork projects:

• $1 million to the Center for Instrumented Critical Infrastructure in Johnstown, Pennsylvania
• $2 million to establish the “Rangel Center for Public Service” at City College of New York
• $34 million for the Alaska Native Education Equity program
• $50,000 for the National Mule and Packers Museum in California
• $100,000 for renovation of the Fire Fighters Hall in Columbus, Ohio
• $100,000 for the renovation of St. Joseph College’s theatre in Indiana

Georgia is doing well, or at least as well as one can expect. We have one of the more pro-taxpayer delegations in the country. Westmoreland (50/50), Deal (50/50) and Broun (12/12) are batting 1.000. Price (49/50) and Linder (48/50) aren’t far off. Much praise is deserved for these guys on this front.

Gingrey (37/50) and Kingston (26/50) are lagging, though Kingston has voted for more of anti-pork amendments than anyone else on the House Appropriations Committee.

Barrow (10/50) and Marshall (8/41), like Kingston, leave much to be desired.

Bishop (1/48), Johnson (1/48), Lewis (1/50), Scott (1/50) are very much pro-pork and ordinarily don’t mind spending taxpayer dollars on vote buying projects for themselves or their colleagues. However, they joined the rest of the Georgia delegation in voting to strike a $129,000 earmark for the “perfect Christmas tree.”

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Our latest inductee into the Georgia Porkbusters Hall of Shame is House Majority Leader Jerry Keen.

Keen is proposing that “capital projects,” which is a nice word for pork, not be added to the budget until conference between the House and Senate.

This is a move that is similar, if not exactly the same, as what Democrats have done on the national level in order to hide their pork projects from the public.

There must be sunlight in the process.

Dis-honorable mention to Rep. John Heard (R-Lawrenceville) for endorsing the idea.

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Since he has been in office, Paul Broun has voted for all of Jeff Flake’s anti-pork amendments that have been brought to the floor for a vote.

So…good on the new Congressman from Georgia’s 10th District.

Also, Bill Shipp has a good column on how Broun’s victory is bad news for incumbents.

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