On Fox News's, On the Record with Greta Van Susteren, former Bill Clinton adviser Dick Morris was talking about how earmarks can lead to corruption and used West Virginia Congressman Alan Mollohan (D) as example.
This illustrates how West Virginia constantly looses with Alan Mollohan has our Congressman. When the Congressman earmarks money to his friends as Dick Morris points out, that money doesn't help the people of West Virginia. That is why it is unethical, but most people don't see how it actually hurts us.
Consider that if the Congressman earmarks $3 million dollars to his friends at Vandalia, then he used his efforts for the wrong reason. It would have taken the same effort to earmark $3 million dollar to fix Doresy's curve on US 50 in Mineral County where 8 people have been killed over the past several years and our school buses travel everyday. What is more important to the Congressman the lives of school childern or funding his friends? There are countless projects in each county across the West Virgina 1st Congressional District that need funded, but the Congressman ignores them in favor of his personal interest.
We are going to have to ask ourselves this next election. Do we want a Congressman that puts the interest of the people of West Virginia first or his own person gain first?
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