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There is an old truism to politics that what is pork to you is necessary spending to me. It is the same with earmarks. Basically, people love pork and earmarks if they are flowing into their state, but hate them if they are flowing into someone else's. Representative Peter Welch of Vermont secured some twenty-nine earmarks for Vermont, which is quite low to be honest. One of those earmarks is going to Outright Vermont, a Burlington-based queer youth advocacy organization. It is the first time that any Vermont LGBT group has been given a federal earmark. In August, the nonprofit received its first installment of a $100,000 appropriation that will be given to them over the next three years.

more at http://lezgetreal.com/2010/07/federal-money-to-go-to-vermont-lgbtq-youth-groups-anti-bullying-campaign/ [7/22/10]