We’ve all seen the list of Bobby’s line-item vetoes of NGOs and local pork projects (”earmarks”) from the State Operating Budget (HB 1, 2008 R.S.).

Below you will find links to lists of what remains of the NGOs and local pork. There’s still over $40 Million of our tax dollars spent on such items. That’s more than Kathleen Blanco or Big Daddy allowed in their budgets.

Despite Bobby’s “criteria” for lege pork, there is no rhyme or reason for what he vetoed. The only consistency in the vetoed items is the inconsistency.

Thanks to State Treasury John Kennedy for making this information available. Nobody else in state government would.

Now, as Paul Harvey says, you know the rest of the story.

C.B.

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For more details of the NGOs go here: http://www.legis.state.la.us/sif/sifssearch.aspx