Posted on 06/05/2009 5:23:38 AM PDT by xtinct
Since Congress passed President Barack Obama’s $787 billion economic stimulus bill in February, administration officials have traveled to at least 66 events across the country to tout the massive spending program or hand out stimulus cash to grateful local officials.
But a POLITICO examination of the travel reveals a distinctly political trend line: Top officials have hosted events predominantly in states that Obama won in 2008.
What’s more, the examination revealed that Obama officials all but avoided Southern states that Obama lost.
It is not unusual for a presidential administration to find ways to reward its supporters through federal largesse, particularly in this case, when the goal of the stimulus program is push money out the door to states and localities that can spend it quickly to jump-start the economy. The Bush administration was criticized in 2004 for sending Cabinet officials on trips that critics said doubled as campaigning for the president’s reelection bid.
But the numbers tell the tale: 52 of the 66 events were in states that backed Obama. And taken together, the itineraries amount to a veritable map of Obama’s election-night victories — big-money states like California and New York, swing states like Ohio and Colorado that Obama turned blue and other solidly Democratic states Obama kept in his column.
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Personnally I’m grateful to NOT see BO or any of his entourage down here in GA.
They think we’re just a bunch of gun-totin’, bible lovin’,
rednecks intent on respecting primarily Citizens of the USA.
And ya know what?
They’re right!
It’s fine with me if he keeps his fancy pizza chefs, arugula connosouirs, and butt-kissing basketball buddies
up there and away from us.
We in the Magnolia state want him to out too!
US pushing for shake-up at Citigroup....
(Obama’s Treasury Department its largest shareholder)
Forbes /Ass(oc) Press | 06.05.09
Posted on 06/05/2009 8:08:33 AM PDT by IrishMike
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265531/posts
Job Losses at Smallest Level Since September
The Wall Street Journal | June 5, 2009 | BRIAN BLACKSTONE
Posted on 06/05/2009 5:45:12 AM PDT by sitetest
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265409/posts
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