Throughout this campaign, we've focused on the issues, including the wasteful spending and corrupt pay-to-play process Marcy Kaptur has engaged in.

We began with The Kaptur Files, a website devoted to detailing her votes and actions and each week we released a particular pork project she supported. Here is the countdown so far:

• #10 - $100,000 to a boxing club in Nevada – total pork projects in the bill: 1,987
• #9 - $138,000 to ACORN in Arkansas – total pork project in the bill: 11,772
• # 8 - $500,000 to a teapot museum in North Carolina – total pork projects in the bill: 1,987
• #7 - $1,500,000 to the Presidio Heritage Center in California – total pork projects in the bill: 2,322
• #6 - $200,000 for a tattoo removal program in California – total pork projects in the bill: 9,287
• #5 - $200,000 for an opera house in W. Virginia – total pork projects in the bill: 2,007
• #4 - $90,000 for a cowgirl museum and hall of fame in Texas – total pork projects in the bill: 7,500
• #3 - $211,509 for fruit fly research in France – total pork projects in the bill: 8,983
• #2 - $50,000,00 for an indoor rainforest in Iowa – total pork projects in the bill: 7,000

Which leaves us with the #1 pork project – the infamous 'bridge to nowhere' in Alaska.

On July 29, 2005, Marcy Kaptur voted in favor of HR 3, a $286 billion transportation bill containing 6,376 earmarks including $223 million for a bridge to Ketchikan (roll call vote 453). The total cost of the 6,376 earmarks was $24 billion.

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