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The Taxpayers Get Teed Off Award

For $3 million for the First Tee Program in St. Augustine, Fla.

 

 

 

The Out, Out Damn Pork! Award

For $2.25 million in various Shakespeare-related funding.

 

 

 

The Whole Hog Award

To Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) for his $524 million in pork for Alaska.

 

 

 

The Gobbling Up Tax Dollars Award

For $538,000 for the National Wild Turkey Federation in Edgefield, S.C.

 

 

 

The Fiscal Unfitness Award

For $6.8 million in YMCA funding.

 

 

 

The Milking the Taxpayers Award

For $15 million for overseas dairy development programs.

 

 

 

The Byrd Droppings Award

To Senator Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) for his $238 million in pork for W.Va.

 

 

 

The Taxpayers Can’t Get No Satisfaction Award

For $300,000 for Rock and Roll related pork including $200,000 for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and $100,000 for the Kids Rock Free Educational Program.

 

 

 

The Goofy Earmark Award

For $500,000 for Anaheim Resort Transit (Disneyland) buses in the district of Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.).

 

 

 

It’s the Real Pork Award

For $100,000 to restore a historic Coca-Cola building in Macon, Ga.

 

 

 

The Soaking the Taxpayers Award

To Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) for $50 million for an indoor rainforest in Coralville, Iowa.

 

 

 

The Drowning in Red Ink Award

To Rep. Jim Gibbons (R-Nev.) for $225,000 to rehabilitate the Deer Park Pool in Sparks, which Rep. Gibbons clogged with tadpoles in the 1950s.

 

 

 

The Hall of Shame Award

To Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) for his 23 years of pork barreling at taxpayers’ expense.

 

 

 

The Taxpayers Get Scrooged Award

For $2.2 million in pork for North Pole, Alaska (pop. 1,570).