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Speaker Pelosi Visits Minnesota To See Stimulus In Action (found - at the bottom of a lake?)
WCCO ^ | 6/07/09 | Maya Nishikawa

Posted on 06/13/2009 9:30:12 PM PDT by Libloather

Speaker Pelosi Visits MN To See Stimulus In Action Reporting
Maya Nishikawa
Jun 7, 2009 6:34 pm US/Central

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) - Speaker of the U.S. House Nancy Pelosi paid a visit to Minneapolis on Sunday. Pelosi toured a school where federal economic stimulus money is helping put young people to work this summer. She was also here to raise money for Democratic U.S. Representative Tim Walz.

Young people greeted Pelosi in Minneapolis in a traditional way with Native American drums. The American Indian Opportunities Industrialization Center (AIOIC) is a place where both culture and advancement come together. Students at the AIOIC are benefiting from summer jobs created by the economic stimulus package.

"As a mother of two, this employment will help me support my family. Without this program, I would have a harder time finding a job," said Dea Garza, who will be working this summer in health care.

She's one of 43 people at the AIOIC who will be working this summer thanks to $107,000 in economic stimulus funds. Minnesota will eventually receive around $3 billion from the recovery act. The summer job recipients are among the first Minnesotans to benefit. Pelosi toured the school, though WCCO cameras were not allowed.

"I can go back to my colleagues and say that the intention of the law is being fulfilled in Minneapolis and it is being fulfilled in a way that's is a model for the nation," said Pelosi.

Political analyst Larry Jacobs says there's another reason Pelosi is putting the focus on economic recovery.

**SNIP**

In part, it said "Despite the fact that Pelosi has recently accused the men and women of the CIA fighting terrorists of lying to Congress, Walz sees fit to make her a headliner at a fundraiser in Minneapolis."

(Excerpt) Read more at wcco.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: aioic; bhostimulus; crapsandwich; mn2009; obama; pelosi; stimulus
The American Indian Opportunities Industrialization Center (AIOIC) is a place where both culture and advancement come together.

Why am I thinking casinos?

1 posted on 06/13/2009 9:30:12 PM PDT by Libloather
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...summer jobs created by the economic stimulus package.

Yeah, seasonal work subsidised by the Feds will really help the sinking economy.
2 posted on 06/13/2009 9:33:16 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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3 posted on 06/13/2009 9:43:02 PM PDT by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts....)
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4 posted on 06/13/2009 9:44:46 PM PDT by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts....)
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Native Americans beating drums is not a welcoming, it’s a stereotype.


5 posted on 06/13/2009 9:52:08 PM PDT by DHSMostWanted (There wouldn't be a North Korea if MacArthur was allowed to finish the job.)
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She was also here to raise money for Democratic U.S. Representative Tim Walz.

Ah... so the taxpayers get to pay for a fundraising trip because she calls it "work related". Nice.

6 posted on 06/13/2009 10:13:06 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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Leave it to an ignoranus like Nine Percent Nancy to celebrate 25% unemployment among minorities.

ignoranus: ignorant ahole.

7 posted on 06/13/2009 10:30:44 PM PDT by Post Toasties (Conservatives allow the guilty to be executed but Lefties insist that the innocent be executed.)
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Wait.

I’m confused.

Did they find Nancy at the bottom of a lake?


8 posted on 06/14/2009 12:51:19 AM PDT by Califreak (All hail the Islamic Avenger!)
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So Pelosi comes to my state to raise money for my idiot congressman and does the fund raising in the metro area rather then in his district?


9 posted on 06/15/2009 12:29:16 AM PDT by tickles
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