Here is John Boehner on Sunday claiming no stimulus is being spent in Ohio:
But there’s a problem. Ohio has been spending stimulus funds, and now John Boehner has been called out on his lie and had to issue a “clarification”:
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.
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Boehner issued a clarification Monday.
“The entire process has been absurdly slow moving just as Republicans warned it would be when we called for an economic recovery bill based on fast-acting tax relief for small businesses and working families,” Boehner said in a statement.
There is a pretty major project going on right here in Boehner’s own county. It bad enough to get the facts wrong on his own state and district, but his own home county? Come on. Either Boehner is lying or just doesn’t know what’s going on in his district. Either reason is inexcusable. How in the hell can someone claim to be a representative when they don’t even know what they are representing?