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Bonner earmark #s 11 & 12
By Bill Allison Feb 28, 2008 3:56 a.m.The next two earmarks are went to the same recipient. Rep. Jo Bonner, R-Ala., secured a $352,500 earmark for Team Focus, a Mobile, Ala.-based nonprofit which aims to "provide young men that do have a father figure in their life, ages 10 18 with leadership skills, guidance, Godly values, and a continual relationship with a mentor," according to its Web site. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., joined Bonner in sponsoring the earmark in the Commerce, Justice and Science appropriations bill. Team Focus got another earmark in the same bill for $517,000--this one sponsored by Sens. Shelby and Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., and joined by Bonner. The first earmark is for mentoring and education, while the second is for youth education and mentoring. (This information comes from Taxpayers for Common Sense, something I haven't pointed out as I should.)
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More Bonner earmarks...
By Bill Allison Feb 27, 2008 10:16 p.m....later tonight. Right now I'm going to the check out the PorK Fest...
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Bonner earmark #10
By Bill Allison Feb 26, 2008 10:09 p.m.Rep. Jo Bonner and Sen. Richard Shelby joined President George W. Bush in requesting an earmark for the Mobile Tensaw Delta; the final value of the earmark, in the Interior, Environment, and related agencies appropriations bill, was $1,969,000.
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Bonner earmark #9
By Bill Allison Feb 26, 2008 5:39 a.m.In the Transportation and Housing & Urban Development appropriations bill, Rep. Jo Bonner joined Sen. Jeff Sessions in securing a $735,000 earmark for the Mobile Downtown Airport for ramp rehabilitation and drain repair.
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Bonner earmark #8
By Bill Allison Feb 26, 2008 4:45 a.m.Rep. Jo Bonner joined Sen. Richard Shelby in securing $470,000 in the Commerce, Justice & Science appropriations bill for the Mobile County Commission to acquire interoperable communications systems.
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Bonner Earmark #7
By Bill Allison Feb 25, 2008 11:18 p.m.In the Labor, Department of Health and Human Services and Education appropriations bill, Rep. Jo Bonner secured a $199,000 earmark for the Fairhope Center for the Arts in Bay Minette, Ala., for arts education programs, including purchase of equipment. The Fairhope Center for the Arts doesn't seem to have hired a federal lobbyist. The organization forms 990 aren't available on Guidestar.org, so I wasn't able to double check the numbers.
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Bonner Earmark #6
By Bill Allison Feb 25, 2008 2:57 a.m.Rep. Jo Bonner attached his name to an earmark originally requested by Sen. Richard Shelby for $1,372,000 for the City of Mobile's Transit System, known as the Wave Transit System.
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Bonner Earmark #5
By Bill Allison Feb 25, 2008 2:36 a.m.Rep. Jo Bonner earmarked $245,000 in the Transportation, Housing & Urban Development appropriations bill to the "City of Jackson for construction of a building in conjunction with a 240-acre industrial development park."
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Bonner earmark #4
By Bill Allison Feb 24, 2008 2:17 p.m.Rep. Jo Bonner earmarked $245,000 for the Bay Area Food Bank for construction of a commercial-size kitchen. Bay Area Food Bank, which distributes food donated by grocery stores, restaurants and the like to soup kitchens and homeless shelters, doesn't have a federal lobbyist, according to the Senate Office of Public Records. To double check, I looked the organization up in Guidestar, a great resource for finding out about nonprofits--their forms 990 show no payments for lobbying. I also ran the names of the organization's executives and board members through OpenSecrets.org looking for campaign contributions, and found nothing.
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Bonner earmark #3
By Bill Allison Feb 23, 2008 11:03 p.m.I thought this one would be harder.
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Another Bonner Earmark, another lobbying link
By Bill Allison Feb 23, 2008 4:27 p.m.Going for the low hanging fruit first (earmarks in EarmarkWatch.org). So let's look at the $141,000 that the Alabama School of Math and Science in Mobile, Ala., got in the Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations Act.
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Aderholt's bio: record levels, responsibility
By Bill Allison Feb 23, 2008 3:13 a.m.I'm still looking mostly at the earmarks that Rep. Jo Bonner, R-Ala., has sponsored, but while I was looking at them, I came across the official biography that Rep. Robert B. Aderholt, another Alabama Republican, has on his Web site. The language is instructive:
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Following Bonner's earmarks
By Bill Allison Feb 22, 2008 10:23 p.m.Let's start with this earmark, because it's already in EarmarkWatch.org, and hence easy to research. A few interesting notes...
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Bonner & earmarks
By Bill Allison Feb 20, 2008 10:41 p.m.Last week, our friends in the Porkbusting movement expressed their dismay that the Republican House leadership chose Rep. Jo Bonner, R-Ala., over Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., for an open slot on the House Appropriations Committee.
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