Our Views: ; Incumbents' Slush Funds; It Will Not Be a Simple Matter to Cure the Budget Digest Problem

Charleston Daily Mail › February 01, 2007

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POLITICIANS are elected to represent the interests of their districts and affect funding decisions. There would be no point in elections if career government employees directed all spending.

Reasoning so, members of the Legislature created an instrument that allowed them to direct spending to projects in their districts.

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Our Views: ; Incumbents' Slush Funds; It Will Not Be a Simple Matter to Cure the Budget Digest Problem

What followed was a lot of directed spending - $35 million one year, on everything from ban...

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