All of the Following Are True of Pork Barrel Projects

All of the following are true of pork barrel projects EXCEPT

A) typically they are public works and economic development ventures whose benefits accrue largely to a specifically defined geographic area.
B) legislative leaders shower the districts of their electorally threatened co-partisans with them in hopes of avoiding a party switch in those districts.
C) legislators believe they will help their chances of winning reelection.
D) conservative legislators who are ideologically opposed to government spending always shun such projects for their districts.