His name is Lou Gentile of Steubenville, a former Strickland congressional staffer who worked for the Strickland office worker who exposed himself to 12 year old girls.
The unpopular Governor gave his former employee a glowing endorsement:
“I know how much Lou loves this region,” said Gov. Ted Strickland. “I [...]
Bill Buckley once suggested that he would rather have the US government run by the first 400 people in the Boston telephone book. And considering that 79% of voters are apparently smarter on fiscal policy than your average Democrat Congressman, I agree:
As the policy debate has unfolded in Washington [...]
Both candidates for the U.S. Senate have been busy today.
Jennifer Brunner had another OpEd on Huffington Post today, calling attention to four key steps she believes congress can take to address the myriad of issues facing America's veterans. It's a smart piece worth reading and I'm hoping to' [...]
Washington, D.C. – Rep. Betty Sutton (D-OH) has been appointed by House Democratic Caucus Chairman John Larson to co-chair the Congressional Task Force on Job Creation. The task force will focus on bringing new and innovative ideas to the table that will create jobs and restore the [...] Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan of Urbana wants Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner to look into allegations that the advocacy group ACORN had an at least preliminary plan to boost Democrats' political prospects in 2008 in key congressional races in Ohio.
Jordan is citing as his evidence a document' [...]
Obama's nominee for undersecretary of the Treasury for international affairs, Lael Brainard, is the fifth [...]
Stephen D. Steinour, the chief executive officer of Huntington National Bank, joined Sen. Sherrod Brown today in Washington for a roundtable chat on ways to help small businesses obtain financing
The forum took place at the U.S. Department of the Treasury Department included members of Congress, bankers, small business owners [...]
Fred Dailey is nervous about his race against Bob Gibbs for Congress, and had to hire some political operatives. That is a smart move, but nothing can cover up Dailey’s record as a pork-loving state bureaucrat.
From the New York Times, “Iowa Finds Itself Deep in Heart of Wine [...]
According to Lynn Walsh of the Buckeye Institute, not only do stimulus jobs cost more in Congressional districts controlled by Democrats, but jobs have been “saved or created” in districts that don’t exist.. such as District 00 or District 99.
But the question remains: In those pretend districts during [...]
WASHINGTON- The Strengthening and Updating Resources and Equipment (SURE) Act, which was introduced by Congresswoman Kilroy on October 16th, was passed today by the House Committee on Homeland Security.
The SURE Act, which will allow first responders to maintain the capabilities necessary to prepare and protect [...]
I noted this briefly this morning at Lickety-Split Links (”Recovery.gov lists hundreds of millions spent and hundreds of jobs created in Congressional districts that don’t exist“), and it has caught the attention of several SOBers:
Maggie Thurber — “Bogus jobs numbers in the stimulus & Ohio phantom congressional [...]He lost by 20 points to Rep. Zack Space in 2008 and now faces a potentially crowded GOP primary field for 2010 that includes a sitting state senator apparently preferred by many in his party for the general election - but Fred Dailey is making it clear he intends [...]
Good thing they spent $18 million on the web site revamp — “Recovery.gov lists hundreds of millions spent and hundreds of jobs created in Congressional districts that don’t exist.”
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Maybe we should hold the congressional elections on April 16, 2010 — TaxProf Blog has a roundup of establishment [...]
I just looked up the summary of Ohio data on Recovery.gov and here's some of what I found. Compare the numbers for jobs created/"saved" and money wasted spent for Ohio's 18 congressional districts, and the numbers for the ten nonexistent districts that turned up.
District Jobs Porkulus 1 - Dreihaus (D) 349.7 $1,063,584,388 2 - [...]
Democratic National Committee has launched radio commercials against Rep. Pat Tiberi of Genoa Township and 31 other House Republicans for voting against a House bill earlier this month aimed at overhauling the nations health care system.
"Congressman Tiberi joined Republicans in Washington and voted against real reform,'' the" [...]
