Earmark applicant’s complaint fuels critics
Passed over for funding, group cites inequities
WASHINGTON - They had no track record, no airplanes, no political sponsor, and they missed a deadline for requesting money. So it was hardly surprising that the founders of a nonprofit disaster relief organization were rejected this year when they lobbied for a $20 million earmark in a Senate defense budget. (Full article: 867 words)
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