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luckyleftyme2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-19-10 06:49 AM
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HERE IS A GOOD REASON THE REPUBLICANS ARE SO MIS-INFORMED ABOUT THE STIMULUS AND HEALTH-CARE!
THEIR LEADERS ARE EITHER OUT TO LUNCH OR LIARS!
John Boehner was wrong about Ohio stimulus spending
By Karl Turner, The Plain Dealer
July 06, 2009, 5:43PM
WASHINGTON — When U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner told a newscaster Sunday that not a single stimulus-funded road contract in his home state of Ohio had been let, he was wrong.

The Ohio Department of Transportation has OK'd 52 stimulus-funded road and bridge projects at a cost of nearly $84 million.

Boehner told Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace that in Ohio, "the infrastructure dollars that were sent there months ago," as part of the economic recovery package, "there hasn't been a contract let, to my knowledge."

Karl Frisch, senior fellow for Media Matters, a media watchdog group that monitors news reports, said it seemed that Boehner, a Republician from West Chester in southwestern Ohio, might want to be more aware of what's going on in his home state.

Frisch said he also wanted Wallace to have some basic facts on the stimulus spending in Ohio if he's going to interview Boehner on the topic.

"This is something pretty basic," said Karl Frisch, senior fellow at Media Matters. "If you're going to interview someone on stimulus funding, you should know something about it." Media Matters, a nonprofit "progressive research and information center," monitors daily newspapers, Sunday news talk shows, and other media outlets looking for and correcting conservative misinformation.

The aim is to put the spotlight on the media to smarten up to stop politicians from "twisting the facts to serve their own talking points," Frisch said.

Boehner spokeswoman Jessica Towhey did not return phone calls. Wallace did not respond to an email.

An ODOT spokesman called Boehner's statement "disappointing."

And Scott Varner noted that ODOT had just OK'd six more stimulus road projects which will cost about $43 million.
PERHAPS HE SHOULD SPEND LESS TIME WORKING ON HIS TAN AND MORE ON THE PEOPLES BUSINESS!!!!


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