Re: Teapot Dome

wisdom4all — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:00:44 -0400

The teapot museum will have limited appeal to visitors to our state as well as our citizens. Why are we wasting taxpayers money? This is another example of PORK and we have too much of that now. Give the money to education where it may do some good!

Teapot Dome

ryanteaguebeckwith — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:13:14 -0400

A proposed teapot museum in Sparta has been a target of Republicans who during the last campaign held it up as an example of Democratic state legislative pork.

Now the teapot museum is getting some attention as an example of federal pork.

On their Friday night broadcast, CBS News asked some pointed questions about the support for the museum by GOP U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx and Republican U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, both of whom have backed funding of the project.

"With the help of a few good Washington lobbyists, the Sparta teapot museum has gotten $400,000 in state funds and a half a million dollars from Congress,” said CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson. "It's nothing against teapots or the dream. Maybe tens of thousands of teapot-seeking tourists will flock to Sparta and spend millions of dollars. The question is this: Why should your federal tax dollars be used for this project?"

Foxx told CBS: "The money’s going to be spent, and it’s up to us to, again, be advocates for our areas to try to help with those areas."

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