Re: Hagan seeks $48m in state spending

ryanteaguebeckwith — Sat, 24 May 2008 11:12:56 -0400

A fair point, but appropriations bills are the only public records available.

There's no way to know who put individual earmarks into the budget.

— RTB

Re: Hagan seeks $48m in state spending

dahedgehog — Sat, 24 May 2008 02:37:19 -0400

C'mon, RTB, you know enough about the budget process to understand that sponsoring appropriations bills (let alone cosponsoring appropriations bills) is NOT an accurate measure of what members are actually asking for.

Re: Hagan seeks $48m in state spending

Wildgoose — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:57:41 -0400

Wow, just think about how much pork she could get in the U.S. Senate. This is a true big bucks lady!

Hagan seeks $48m in state spending

ryanteaguebeckwith — Fri, 23 May 2008 13:05:03 -0400

Sen. Kay Hagan is seeking more than $48 million in state spending.

The Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate has sponsored one bill and co-sponsored 16 bills seeking appropriations in the upcoming state budget. As a longtime state senator, she is serving an advisory role on the budget in the short session.

Hagan is the primary sponsor of a bill that would give the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering run by UNC-Greensboro and N.C. A&T University $2.9 million in the budget.

Among the larger appropriations bills she is cosponsoring: $12 million for the N.C. Housing Trust Fund, $9.5 million to the UNC system for 4-H camps, and $8.1 million to buy a building for a student services center at N.C. A&T.

She is also asking for $3 million for Boys & Girls Club programs targeting dropouts and teen pregnancy, $3 million for an International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro, $2.6 million for promoting the semiannual furniture market in High Point, $2.5 million for minority financial literacy programs, $2 million for arts programs and $1 million for a parental school involvement pilot program.

Among the appropriations under $1 million: Money for a literacy program in Wake County public schools, an electronic health information study commission, Kids Voting programs, a John Coltrane Music Hall in Greensboro, job training for the homeless and former inmates, a male-oriented teen pregnancy prevention program, and housing for recovering substance abusers in Greensboro.

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