The Bridge to Nowhere

In addition to being only a little corrupt (which is good by AK conservative standards!) the other policy-related thing we’ve heard about Sarah Palin is that she killed Alaska’s infamous “bridge to nowhere.” Except it seems clear that what she actually did was fight hard to get federal funding for the bridge, and only abandoned the project when it became clear that federal funds wouldn’t be forthcoming. Nothing wrong with that, of course, you expect Governors to support pork-barrel schemes that benefit their state, but this alleged bridge-busting was heavily featured in the public’s introduction to this previously unknown figure and it doesn’t even turn out to be true.