Earmarks, Pork, A Puget sound businessman and the Military..

[Waterbuffalo]

This is an interesting story about a fire resistant T-shirt that one Seattle Businessman is trying to sell to the military and how earmarks made sure he would win a contract. This has connections to David Wu's (think Oregon congressman) earmark to get one of his local businesses a T-shirt contract.

There is a lot more in this article than this, so please read it here:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004079521_nobid18.html