How did the bridge to nowhere happen?

[wacki]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...pending21.html

Seriously, I want to know how do you become so powerful that you can make a move like that? What was his leverage? Why did nobody else in the Senate vote against this? What is going on?

Please, if you are going to make a worthless post that so and so is a scumbag... all republicans are scum.... all blah blah blah...just don't even bother posting. I don't care who is scum. i just want to know how he managed to get this bill passed. In otherwords, what was his secret weapon? What tactics did he use?