Posted on 11/19/2009 6:24:06 AM PST by opentalk
Hawaii received $2,284,000 million of federal stimulus funds for the 11the Congressional district, $40,903,941 million for the 15th Congressional district, $1,651,811 for the “00” Congressional district, and $799,656 in the 99th congressional district creating a combined “3.4” jobs or $13,423,355 per job, according to the federal government’s transparency web site for stimulus funds, http://www.Recovery.gov/.However, Hawaii has just two congressional districts, 1 and 2.
Those districts received $592,211,484 million and $174,075,308 respectively, according to the federal web site, creating combined total of 1,541.5 jobs.
See the full report on Hawaii here: http://www.recovery.gov/Transparency/StateSummaries/Pages/statesummary.aspx?StateCode=HI
Media inquires to the governor’s office, the state budget office, Hawaii’s US Senators’ office, and the Recovery.gov web site manager this morning about the $45,639,408 allocated to four phantom districts has so far has yielded two responses.
US Sen. Daniel Akaka’s spokesperson, Jesse Van Dyke Broder, says the allocation report most likely has a “clerical” error. He says his office will alert the White House to the problem.
Russell Pang, spokesperson for the governor, says “Mark Anderson, who is the lead for the state on our federal stimulus funds, is sorting through this to see if he can match up what we’ve been awarded / received versus what is reported below for each district.”
Hawaii is far from the only state finding clerical errors in the Recovery.gov web site.
According to the Franklin Center report seen here – http://watchdog.org/2009/11/17/6-4-billion-stimulus-goes-to-phantom-districts/ – New Mexico Watchdog broke the story on Monday morning after finding that $26 million in stimulus money had been distributed to 13 congressional districts–ten more than the state actually has. They say similar reports soon followed from New Hampshire, Kansas, Ohio, Minnesota and West Virginia.
Laura Brown, researcher and reporter for Hawaii Reporter, contributed to the research for this report
“creating a combined “3.4” jobs or $13,423,355 per job”
Are they in the public records department?
A few data entry errors I can see, it happens. However, with then numerous ones brought to light this is a pattern. A pattern of deception that some ‘genius’ though would go unnoticed.
This has to be covered under the RICO statute.
I mean this is NOT a mistake. This had to be planned and carried out by the Zero Admin.
Impeachable offense?
TOUCHE!
someone... is stealing all this money...
I want one of those jobs. Better yet, just give me the cash and I’ll go away for good. ;-)
Payback to Hawaii for doctoring the BC?
Mmmm-Hmmmm. Dang gubmint employees. They've been making the same clerical errors all over the country.
Where in the world is all of our money going? Yes, I know. 'Rat pockets.
There were also two non existent districts in Texas that got stimulus $$$$$$$s that save ________ # of jobs.
Porkulus is nothing but a slush fund doled out to big government supports. They haven’t spent all of it yet so that they can use it to sway votes in close districts next year.
“I want one of those jobs. Better yet, just give me the cash and I’ll go away for good. ;-)”
Who better to get a Chicago no-show job than a Dead Corpse?
This sounds impeachable to me
where is this money actually going?
Agree with all you posted. Who will investigate this is the problem. Total Fraud.
Ummmmm
How do you make a clerical error when you only have two districts to choose from??????
Exactly. WHO’S POCKET IS THIS MONEY IN, AND HOW DO WE PROSECUTE THEM, AND GET THE MONEY BACK?
Time for a revolution!
Are those permanent jobs? Did they last 2 weeks, what?
That money is going somewhere, this is the worst kind of corruption.
..they must be getting to move his birth certificate again
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