claim: palin "stopped the bridge to nowhere."
author: john mccain
evidence_1: after canceling the bridge, palin's administration spent more than $25 million to  build the gravina island highway, which would have connected with ... in  response to an inquiry of whether palin could have stopped construction,  stapleton told boudreau that palin had "no viable alternative" ...
evidence_2: sep 24, 2008 ... ketchikan, alaska (cnn) -- the "bridge to nowhere" may have been shelved.  but the "road to nowhere" is alive and well. gov. sarah palin let the "road to  nowhere" go ahead because the contract had been signed. the proposed $400  million span that would have connected the coastal city of ...
evidence_3: sep 22, 2008 ... we've written about the gravina access project, also known as the bridge to  nowhere, several times – first back in november when john mccain used it as ...  independent groups and media fact-checkers have said palin advocated for the  federal earmark before opposing it, only ended after congress had ...
evidence_4: aug 31, 2008 ... sarah palin's assertion that she rejected congressional funds for the so-called " bridge to nowhere" has upset many alaskans. ... last year, palin announced she  was stopping state work on the controversial project, earning her admirers from  earmark critics and budget hawks from around the nation.
evidence_5: sep 9, 2008 ... a tv advertisement repeats the dubious claim that vice-presidential nominee  sarah palin "stopped" the nation's most infamous symbol of pork-barrel spending . it's been pretty clearly established by now that the "bridge to nowhere" was  going nowhere at all before the alaska governor formally signed the ...