Our latest inductee in to the Georgia Porkbusters Hall of Shame none other than Georgia media personality Bill Shipp. In his latest column he chastises Rep. Jack Kingston for not being apologetic, not about the amount of pork he is bring home but that he isn’t bringing home enough pork.

Shipp writes:

Rep. Jack Kingston of Savannah says he will not apologize for asking for $83 million in the current federal budget for local projects for Georgia and his district.

Cox Newspapers tell us Kingston is the king of special “earmark” requests in the Georgia delegation. No one else among the Georgia lawmakers even comes close.

“I think when you become a member of the Georgia delegation, you’re supposed to perform, as opposed to grandstand,” he told Cox reporter Julia Malone.
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Alas, despite what Jack says, he owes us Georgians a big fat apology. So do the rest of that sorry lot we have elected to Congress.

He also chastises Rep. Nathan Deal for not bring enough pork back to Georgia…and even has the stones to say that Rep. David Scott isn’t bring home enough, despite his securing more than $11 million in federal pork.

Shipp wants these Congressman to bring taxpayer dollars back home to Georgia…and they should, but by letting them keep their hard earned money in the first place. Georgians are overtaxed. We should be encouraging our elected representatives to fight for tax cuts across the board and urging them to cut wasteful spending.

Mr. Shipp, that is the best way to “give us back our money and restore our economic health.” Not by our Congressman bringing home wasteful pork projects.

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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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Our first inductee is House Appropriations Committee Chairman Ben Harbin (R-Evans), who took the floor of the State House yesterday and defended a $20.2 billion budget filled with pork and wasteful spending.

Earmarks in the FY 2008 budget include:

• $50,000 to the Aviation Hall of Fame Authority.
• $50,000 for the Civil War Commission.
• $100,000 for the Warner Robins Air Force base museum.
• $608,685 to the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame Authority.
• $1.5 million for CSX rail improvements in Waycross.
• $5 million for “Go Fish.”

Represenative Ben Harbin, you are the first inductee in the Georgia Porkbusters Hall of Shame.

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