U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning and U.S. Rep. Geoff Davis earmarked $3.92 million in the defense spending bill signed into law Dec. 19 for American Freedom Fuels, a Lexington company owned by Robert Addington, who is also a major campaign donor.
Addington, who with his brothers founded and ran several large coal companies, has given about $35,000 in combined political donations since 2005 to Bunning and Davis, both Kentucky Republicans.
..."If he can't get enough money in the private sector for his companies, it shouldn't be up to the members of Congress to step in and pick winners and losers using money that isn't theirs," [spokeswoman for Citizens Against Government Waste Leslie] Paige said. "That's why we have a free market, to decide which ideas will get capital."
Friday, January 8, 2010
Geoff Davis donor gets $3.9 million earmark
The Lexington Herald-Leader has the story:
