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Earmarks and their lobbyists

 
| Published: March 15, 2009    Comment on this article Leave a comment

This chart shows the Oklahoma entities that received earmarked projects in the $410 billion spending bill approved last week and that employ registered lobbyists in Washington.

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City of Piedmont


• Earmarks: $95,000 for a traffic light (requested by Sen. Jim Inhofe); $95,000 for a community development plan (requested by Rep. Frank Lucas, Inhofe)


• Lobbyist: Joshua McClintock (ex-staff member for former U.S. Rep. J.C. Watts)


• 2008 lobbying fees: No specific lobbying fees reported

Norman Regional Health System


• $381,000 for electronic records initiative (Rep. Tom Cole, Inhofe)


• Carmen Group, including Gary Hoitsma, former staff member

for Inhofe


• $170,000

Oklahoma State University Health Sciences Center


• $618,000 (Rep. Dan Boren, Rep. Mary Fallin, Rep. John Sullivan, Lucas, Inhofe)


• Former U.S. Rep. Bill Brewster, Steve Irizamy


• $170,000

Rural Enterprises Inc.


• $475,000 for Native American Rural Business and Resource Center (Inhofe); $175,000 for Minority Business Development (Boren); $143,000 Entrepreneurship Training (Boren)


• Suzie Brewster, Karel Brewster, Monika Laws


• $50,000

Mid-America Christian

University


• $285,000 for teacher training (Cole)


• Tom Keller


• $120,000

Jenks Public Schools


• $190,000 for equipment

(Sullivan)


• Chad Bradley (former staffer for Inhofe) and Todd Singer


• $140,000

Ada Public Works Authority


• $500,000 for wastewater lift station (Cole, Inhofe); $190,000 for water tower (Cole, Inhofe)


• Brook Simmons (ex-aide to former U.

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