claim: mccain says the price of a gas tax "holiday" would be about the same as "a bridge to nowhere (or) another pork barrel project."
author: john mccain
evidence_1: sep 25, 2008 ... it's not just sarah palin's claim about killing the bridge project that she had ... but  that isn't part of obama's tax plan, which would raise rates ... the 'bridge to  nowhere' ... as mccain was denouncing it repeatedly as pork-barrel spending. ...  at mccain's claim that a summer-long “gas tax holiday” would save ...
evidence_2: (nov 2007); factcheck:bridge-to-nowhere never built; would serve 200,000. ... ( oct 2008); $300b to buy up home mortgages; put a floor under it. ... veto all pork- barrel bills and announce pork spenders. ... ban on same-sex marriage is  unrepublican; leave it to states. ..... (dec 2006); gas tax holiday for the summer.
evidence_3: oct 20, 2015 ... in another case, rep. ... government watchdogs say the ban, which prohibits  lawmakers from ... government waste, which compiles an annual list of pork  projects. ... complete transparency so you don't get the 'bridge to nowhere,' but ...  at the same time, traditional earmarks would provide members with a ...
evidence_4: oct 16, 2008 ... "mccain says his life changed while he was in vietnam, and he is now a different  ... as "agents of intolerance," promised more drilling and deeper tax cuts, even .....  at a cost of nearly $7 billion in today's dollars — was pork-barrel politics. ... for a  pork project that would pay for a dozen bridges to nowhere.
evidence_5: another way to look at it is from the top of the chart down: obama has 238 .... at  electionprojection.com projects 353 electoral votes for obama, while the arch ......  mccain said the price of a gas tax holiday would be about the same as a "bridge  ..... said "thanks but no thanks" to the bridge to nowhere, but actually supported it  ...