November 14, 2007
Specter Spends Nearly $1 Mil To Harm Children
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Whoops! It turns out Arlen Specter has an earmark in a recently vetoed spending bill that spends nearly a million dollars to hurt Pennsylvania children!
Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, secured 25 earmarks providing $882,000 for abstinence education programs around the state.
“There are people who say that abstinence education doesn’t work,” Mr. Specter said, but “I’ve seen a lot of indicators that it does work.” In addition, he said, “I have 12 million people in Pennsylvania, they have a lot of different ideas,” some of them strongly favor abstinence education, and their values “ought to be recognized.”
He's seen indicators it does work. I can only assume that means he's traveled the commonwealth checking teenage girls to see if their hymens are still intact. Icky.
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