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Pelosi’s Office: Conservative Talking Point About $30 Million For Mice Is “Fabrication”

Is there really $30 million in the new stimulus package devoted to saving the salt marsh mouse in Nancy Pelosi’s district?

That’s what some conservatives are now charging, and the claim seems to be gaining some traction with elected GOP officials and conservative media outlets, who are using it to argue that the bill is stuffed with Dem pork.

But there isn’t any such money in the bill. And Pelosi’s office is saying that the claim is a “total fabrication.”

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/stimulus-package/pelosi-staff-conservative-talking-point-about-30-million-for-mice-is-fabrication/

Taxpayer Money and the Salt Marsh Mouse
By Cheryl Casone


Are you sitting there wondering what exactly where your tax money is going for stimulus? How do you feel about the Salt Marsh Mouse? Because the mouse is getting some. According to the Washington Times, the San Francisco Bay Area (Nancy Pelosi’s district) is getting thirty million dollars for wetlands restoration. It is a cause she has been behind since the 90’s, and this stimulus package will give her her wish. (for the record Pelosi says she wasn’t involved in the current initiative.)

There is more…..programs for STD’s are back in, there is a smoking prevention earmark, 200 million for a clean-burning power plant in Mattoon, Illinois, and my favorite: 1 billion dollars for admin costs and construction of new office buildings for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration buildings.

http://casone.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2009/02/12/taxpayer-money-and-the-salt-marsh-mouse/