Maria Elvira Salazar posed with giant novelty checks for a children's hospital, a university and a local road project, taking credit for tens of millions of dollars. She voted against the bills that funded every one of them. When local reporters confronted her on television, she said she couldn't remember how she voted. If she had gotten her way, that children's hospital and her own community would have received nothing at all.

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