** Media Alert ** CAGW Launches PigFoot Video Podcast | Citizens Against Government Waste

** Media Alert ** CAGW Launches PigFoot Video Podcast

Press Release


For Immediate Release

March 11, 2008

Contacts: Leslie K. Paige (202) 467-5334

Alexa Moutevelis (202) 467-5318

 


(Washington, D.C.) – Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today launched the first in its new series of occasional video podcasts called “Where’s PigFoot?”  The video podcasts, which will be posted on YouTube and hosted on CAGW’s website and blog, will feature CAGW’s mascot uncovering and exposing government waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement wherever it can be found.    


The inaugural installment of the podcast features PigFoot attempting to crash Rep. John Murtha’s (D-Pa.) recent fundraising bash in Arlington, Virginia.  The dinner was one of Rep. Murtha’s two annual “thank-you” events for defense contractors, all of whom had given money to his campaign coffers sometime since 2005.  Murtha is chairman of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee.  After a six-week online poll, he was named CAGW’s 2007 “Porker of the Year” for his relentless pursuit of congressional earmarks.  Dressed to the nines, PigFoot attempted to deliver the coveted award to Rep. Murtha personally during the dinner at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel on February 27, but he was unceremoniously ejected from the hotel.


The debut of the “Where’s PigFoot?” series also coincides with today’s announcement of the introduction of an earmark moratorium amendment to the fiscal year 2009 budget resolution.  The amendment, offered by Sens. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.), will impose a year-long moratorium on congressional earmarks.  The amendment is also co-sponsored by Sens. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), Barack Obama (D-Ill.), and Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.).  The unaccountable and dysfunctional process of congressional earmarking has increasingly become the subject of rancorous dispute and political maneuvering.  The amendment is scheduled for floor debate and a vote this week. 


Citizens Against Government Waste is also fast approaching the April 2 release of the Congressional Pig Book, the most thorough and detailed compendium of wasteful pork projects.  CAGW’s pork list has been a Washington staple since 1991.     


“Where’s PigFoot?” is available for viewing at www.cagw.org, as well as on the group’s blog, www.swineline.org.  For answers to further questions or to schedule an interview, please contact Leslie Paige (202-467-5334, lpaige@cagw.org) or Alexa Moutevelis (202-467-5318, amoutevelis@cagw.org).


The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste is the lobbying and grassroots arm of Citizens Against Government waste (CAGW), a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government. 

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