Although it's nearly a year away, the race for central Ohio's 15th Congressional District already is attracting national attention.
Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy, a Columbus Democrat who narrowly won last year after narrowly losing in 2006, will be defending her seat in Congress against her 2008 opponent, former state [...]
In 2008, Rep. Michele Bachmann’s district had the highest number of foreclosures in Minnesota and the highest rate of foreclosures. Now, as 2009 draws to a close, that trend continues. According to new data from HousingLink and county sheriffs’ offices, the Sixth Congressional District is [...]
For those of you in the 11th congressional district (or in fact, anywhere in Northeast Ohio) who might be looking for something fun to do over the Thanksgiving weekend as well as support one of those progressive congresspeople that actually cares whether sick people have access to health care, Congresswoman [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]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 - [...]An underdog for the Republican nomination in a central Ohio congressional district says someone is trying to sabotage him by sending counterfeit checks drawn on his campaign account.
John Adams, an Upper Arlington conservative challenging former state Sen. Steve Stivers for the GOP slot to run against [...]
Franklin County Commissioner Paula Brooks has hired Patrick Brown to manager her 2010 campaign for the 12th Congressional District against incumbent Republican Rep. Pat Tiberi of Genoa Township.
Brown, 26, grew up in northeastern Massachusetts and most recently was campaign director for the Democratic caucus of the Michigan Senate. [...]
Congresswoman Mary Jo Kilroy met with about two dozen seniors from Ohio's fifteenth congressional district yesterday at the Cantebury Apartment building in Columbus.
The roundtable discussion focused on the Affordable Health Care for America Act (HR 3962), which passed in the U.S. House of Representatives Saturday' [...]
