$951K for "green" streetlights in Detroit

[Buy American]

Hidden in: Energy and Water Appropriations Act
Porkers: Senators Carl Levin [[D-Mich.) and Debbie Stabenow [[D-Mich.)
From the Pig Book: $951,500 by Sens. Carl Levin [[D-Mich.) and Debbie Stabenow [[D-Mich.), and House appropriator Carolyn Kilpatrick [[D-Mich.) for downtown Detroit energy efficient street lighting. That’s the least of the city’s problems.

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Does anyone really think that money will make it to the right departments?

Here's another one:

Hidden in: Transportation/Housing and Urban Development

Porkers: Sen. Carl Levin [[D-Mich.)

From the Pig Book: $3,800,000 by Sen. Carl Levin [[D-Mich.) for the Old Tiger Stadium Conservancy for preservation and redevelopment of a public park and related business activities in the Corktown Neighborhood. Michael LaFaive, a fiscal analyst with the free-market Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, summed up the project’s problems in a Detroit Free Press article on January 27, 2009: “It’s not only irresponsible to redirect these precious resources to saving Tiger Stadium … it’s unfair to everyone with no voluntary connection to the stadium whatsoever. And that comes in the form of people who don't like baseball, people who don’t go to the city of Detroit, people who have no desire to see what remains of the old stadium because of this rescue.”


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