Washington, D.C.
(Nov 17, 2009)
A lot has been made of the non-existent congressional district in Arizona that the White House claimed received "
stimulus" money. So today, we went to Recovery.gov to find out how the
state of Ohio - a state with 18 congressional districts - fared.
Guess what we found: TEN congressional districts in the Buckeye State that DO NOT exist received stimulus money. Take a look below:
In fact, Ohio has never had more than 24 Members of Congress. Not soon after the "
stimulus" was signed into law in February of this year, stories about "stimulus" funds going to to Wisconsin for a bridge to Rusty's Backwater Saloon; to North Carolina where "stimulus" funds were
reportedly used by one town to hire a new worker whose job is to apply for more "stimulus" funds from Washington; to pay for bonuses for AIG executives, a turtle crossing in northern Florida, install skylights in Montana's state-run liquor warehouse - and on and on and on. House Republican Leader John Boehner said in a statement to the
Cleveland Plain Dealer today:
Not only has the 'stimulus' not produced jobs the Administration promised, but now we learn that the Administration's reports intended to track the effectiveness of government spending are riddled with errors and gross inaccuracies. How many more mistakes have been made? How are Ohioans supposed to take the Administration seriously on the economy when its own Web site credits jobs saved or created in districts that don't even exist?
The latest example - claiming credit for creating jobs in Ohio Congressional districts that don't even exist - is just one more sign the “stimulus” isn’t working.