LoHud pork
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- May
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The other day, The Journal News and LoHud.com ran an article on how much money various state Senators and Assembly members had gotten in what are technically called member items, but more colloquially called pork.
Our data desk has put together a searchable database that you can access here.
Rockland’s lone state senator, Thomas Morahan (R-New City), ranked in the top 10 of all state legislators in the amount of money he secured for projects and organizations in his home district.
He alone brought about $2 million to his district. For all of Rockland’s legislators combined — Morahan and Assembly members Ellen Jaffee, D-Suffern; Nancy Calhoun, R-Blooming Grove; Annie Rabbitt, R-Greenwood Lake; and Kenneth P. Zebrowski, D-New City — nearly $3 million came to their constituents, though Morahan, Rabbitt and Calhoun also serve parts of Orange County, where some of those funds went.
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on Thursday, May 8th, 2008 at 12:36 pm by Amy Vernon.
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This pork, through member items, is disgusting. This is our tax money. We don't need politicians lording over us and picking which village, which hospital, which town will get these funds. Besides, politicians like Thomas P. Morahan use these "member items," this PORK if you will to secure their jobs in Albany.
It's a flagrant misuse of taxpayer money and it should be abolished.