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'''Gravina Island Bridge''' was a proposed 2007 project in [[Alaska]] meant to link the city of Ketchikan with Gravina Island. Sometimes referred to with the disparaging moniker the "'''Bridge to Nowhere'''," the project was used to criticize a since-failed congressional [[earmark]] sponsored by Alaskan Senator [[Ted Stevens]] during a [[partisan]] [[witch hunt]] to unseat the senior [[Republican]] senator.

'''Gravina Island Bridge''' was a proposed 2007 project in [[Alaska]] meant to link the city of Ketchikan with Gravina Island. Sometimes referred to with the disparaging moniker the "'''Bridge to Nowhere'''," the project was used to criticize a since-failed Congressional [[earmark]] sponsored by Alaskan Senator [[Ted Stevens]] during a [[partisan]] [[witch hunt]] to unseat the senior [[Republican]] senator, who was ultimately found not guilty because of prosecutor misconduct, falsification of evidence.

 

 

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