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Originally posted by: extra
Yeah, the reason only 50ppl live there is because... There is no way to get there except a ferry lol...

PORK tho.. is .. paying $500,000 of taxpayer money to paint an alaska airlines jet like a salmon (though the paint job looks great i must say LOL)

It was paid out of a fund for the promotion of Alaskan seafood.

A local nonprofit agency, the Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board, gave Alaska Airlines a $500,000 grant to paint the jet. The money came out of about $29 million in federal funding U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska and his congressional colleagues have appropriated to the marketing board, created in 2003, to promote and enhance the value of Alaska seafood. The senator's son, state Sen. Ben Stevens, is chairman of the agency's board of directors.

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The "pork" was getting the $29 million for the marketing board to promote Alaskan seafood. After that, it was the board who approved the grant to have the plane painted. This was just another issue that was grossly misrepresented by the MSM.