Senate quashes grant for Woodstock museum (The museum looks COOL!) see both links

[babsbunny]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-10-18-senate-woodstock_N.htm

By Ken Dilanian, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Thursday to kill a $1 million grant for a museum on the site of the 1969 Woodstock concert, a rare rebuke of a legislative pet project and a blow to the presidential candidate who backed it, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Clinton and her New York colleague, Sen. Charles Schumer, had the funding inserted into the $604 billion education and health spending bill. The Woodstock project's main backer, Alan Gerry, is a registered Republican who recently became a major contributor to the Schumer-led Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

Nine days after the "earmark" was placed in the bill in June, Gerry and his wife contributed the maximum of $9,200 to Clinton's primary and general election campaign funds. The Gerry family contributed an additional $20,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, USA TODAY reported Wednesday.

http://www.woodstockmuseum.com/

It's near the original Woodstock site. Let's go!

[tularetom]

1. Well she can kiss off the aging hippie flower child voting bloc

Like they couldn't see through her anyway.

[jwirr]

2. Actually I fit that category and I am an Obama supporter so I don't

care how it effects her. However, I would have voted against that also. I think we are in an age when it is going to vital to our survival to look at the priorities that are most important. The museum would be great but we all use our infrastructure.

[otherlander]

3. The government doesn't need to be spending money on that.

If they want to spend money on something in keeping with the vision of woodstock, though, they could:
-Cut funding for the Iraq war
-Fund affordable housing
-Get rid of elitist free-trade deals
-Raise the minimum wage
-Legalize gay marriage

:shrug: