Quote Originally Posted by texas grass
so she stole 300m from the federal government and nothing happened. shes a criminal that cant be trusted.

stealing 300m is a criminal act. plain and simple
To steal it the money would've had to of gone back into her own pocket. Which I don't believe it would otherwise she'd probably be indicted with Ted Stevens.

In either case I do believe this can hurt her and the McCain campaign. McCain has always opposed earmarks and is one of the main things he campaigns on. Now we have Palin who claims to be a reformer but has this earmark money.

I'm not sure what happened. Maybe the money was already dumped into the bridge/roads that never got finished? Maybe it just went back int Alaska's revenue? I really don't know, but alaska has a nice surplus and I agree that the money should be given back to the federal government, I don't agree that she performed a criminal act.