Friday, October 19, 2007

Taxpayer Funding for Hippie Museum Defeated

WASHINGTON -- American Conservative Union Chairman David Keene says the successful effort by Senator Tom Coburn
(R-OK) to eliminate one million dollars of taxpayer funds for an arts center dedicated to the Woodstock Festival of 1969 is a victory over liberal hypocrisy.

"The fact that this was part of a bill to fund children's health and
education programs puts the lie to liberals in Congress who have fought
every attempt to restrain the massive increases in government spending
we've seen in recent years," Keene said. "Senator Coburn has set an example
for others in the Congress to follow in not being intimidated by liberal
attacks on the integrity of fiscal conservatives."

The earmark in the Senate appropriation bill funding labor, health and
education programs was sponsored by the two senators from New York, Hillary
Clinton and Charles Schumer.

Keene went on to say that Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic
presidential nomination, was so embarrassed by the debate that she did not
take the Senate floor to defend it. Keene said it was also disturbing that
the benefactors of the earmark, the Gerry Foundation, is run by a
multimillionaire, Alan Gerry, whose foundation has assets of $150 million
and who has contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Democratic
Party over the last decade, including $9200 to Clinton's presidential
campaign.

"It is an outrage that taxpayer money should be diverted to a wealthy
private foundation," Keene said. "The next time you hear a liberal cry
crocodile tears over cuts to government programs for kids, remember they're
really talking about people like Alan Gerry and his liberal friends."


SOURCE American Conservative Union

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