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Main Entry: pork Pronunciation: ‘pOrk Function: noun In American political slang, it is politics (including government money, jobs, or favors) dealing with funding at the Federal level of local projects with little or no national significance yielding rich patronage benefits. In a literal sense a “pork barrel” is a barrel in which pork is kept, but figuratively speaking it is a supply of money, often the source of one’s livelihood. |
This week’s pork, served fresh, hot, and steamy: Tennessee’s Legislative Black Caucus.
Tennesseans of all ethnicities paid $20,000 to fund the Legislative Black Caucus Retreat and Training
Seminar. This payment was made despite the Caucus’s two-decade-long lapse in filing disclosures and failure to reapply for tax-exempt nonprofit status after having its 501(c)(3) status revoked.
The retreat featured seminars on public policy issues, including education and healthcare, with politicians, lob-byists, ministers and civic leaders in attendance. No other “specialty” caucuses have similar retreats.
Your tax dollars at work in Tennessee.
