Hall of Shame: Jerry Keen
Aug 5th 2007Jason PyeHall of Shame
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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Amended budget passes | Peach Pundit on 08 Feb 2008 at 1:28 pm #
[…] This is something that I’d expect out of Democrats, in fact I believe that Appropriations Chairman David Obey (D-WI) did try something like this on the federal level. He also wanted to wait until conference to insert earmarks into appropriations bills. A similar idea was floated by Georgia House Majority Leader Jerry Keen. […]
Georgia Porkbusters » Amended budget passes on 08 Feb 2008 at 1:30 pm #
[…] This is something that I’d expect out of Democrats, in fact I believe that Appropriations Chairman David Obey (D-WI) did try something like this on the federal level. He also wanted to wait until conference to insert earmarks into appropriations bills. A similar idea was floated by Georgia House Majority Leader Jerry Keen. […]