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' [...]
US Senate candidate Tom Ganley’s campaign manager Jeff Longstreth is confused:
Longstreth said that he views the primary as similar to the special election earlier this month in New York’s 23rd congressional district, where a moderate Republican dropped from the race under pressure from conservatives. Since Portman has the “backing [...]
Newt Gingrich (R-GA, Former House Speaker) and House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH)
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) endorsed Republican candidate in New Yorks 23rd Congressional district Dede Scozzafava. The press is writing that Scozzafava is a centrist or moderate but this is the furthest [...]
How will federal health care reform impact Canton and the 16th Congressional District?
Please join in the discussion this Friday with Canton City Councilman Tom West, health care professionals, and small business owners.
WHEN: Friday, November 6, 5 PM to 7 PM
WHERE: The Cantonian Restaurant, 1076 O'Jays' [...]
A Republican candidate with a historic name says he won't drop out of the GOP race for the nod to take on Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy, D-Columbus, in the central Ohio 15th congressional district - despite what he claims is the urging of the Franklin County Republican Party.
John' [...]
The election still is a year away, but the race for central Ohio's 15th Congressional District will be another potboiler, according to a Capitol Hill newspaper.
Roll Call said new Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy (D-Columbus) is one of the 10 most vulnerable members of Congress in next year's' [...]
Well, at least in Paula Brooks' world.“No out of state group has the right to target our way of life”
In Ohio’s 8th Congressional District, we are blessed with some of the richest farmland in the world. Therefore it comes as no surprise that the counties in our District are leading producers in a state well known [...]
Ohio’s Second Congressional District has been represented by Jean Schmidt since September 2005. Almost Over four years later, it appears that she finally has a worthy, serious, sensible conservative challenger (i.e., after the last time it happened, which was June 2005).
It’s worth recounting how Jean Schmidt got to this point [...]
Freshman Congressman Steve Driehaus now has three things in common with former Congressman Steve Chabot: both have represented Ohio's 1st Congressional District, and both raised over $150k and have on hand slightly over $500k.
The August of GOP Angst apparently didn't give either candidate an advantage in campaign fundraising in [...]
In the Democratic primary for the Second Congressional District, David Krikorian leads in the fundraising race against State Representative Todd Book. Krikorian reported having nearly $115k on hand to State Representative Book's nearly $45k. Krikorian's fundraising total was boosted by nearly $80k in donations from the candidate himself. Nearly all [...]
