Posted on 09/15/2010 12:14:19 PM PDT by xjcsa
Ever since the passage of the Democrats failed stimulus package that saddled Americans with almost a trillion dollars in new debt, there have been widespread reports of abuse. From a ‘tunnel to nowhere’ to international ant research, projects across the country have wasted untold amounts of taxpayer dollars – and now we can see it happening right here in Iowa.
Yesterday, Iowa House Republican Leader Kraig Paulsen asked the State Auditor’s office to review the circumstances surrounding a real estate company owned by Roxanne and James Conlin receiving more than $1 million in federal stimulus money to purchase an apartment building from its previous owners.
And just who were those previous owners? Roxanne and James Conlin.
The money, awarded by Democrat Governor Chet Culver, was designed by the federal government to stimulate the economy and create new jobs. There’s no way Roxanne Conlin can say that taxpayers received a penny’s worth of value from the money spent to purchase a building that she and her husband already owned.
No wonder she supported the stimulus program; she personally profited from it and she cannot point to a single job being created due to the taxpayer funding of her purchase of an apartment complex from herself. Conlin complains that one of her biggest reasons for running is to end bailouts for business and tax breaks for the wealthy, while taking $1.28 million in stimulus dollars directly into her pocket.
(Excerpt) Read more at theiowarepublican.com ...
Good grief...not even in Louisiana are pigs at the gubmint trough this blatant. Jail time is in order for both the Conlins and the governor, who must have gotten a cut from this theft of taxpayer money.
I don’t find it hard to believe at all.
Somebody should go to jail for that caper
Good grief! John, reality is about to send you to early retirement.
O - M - G !!! You can go to prison for stuff like this. If you not a Dem, that is.
Grassly should be calling on federal marshalls to arrest the governor and Conlin. Then go after the refund.
This should be on Drudge.
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Just so. Absolutely stunning, especially with one of the perps currently running for office.
I’ve sent a message to Drudge, alerting him to it.
Sooooo- is Roxanne using this money to fund her campaign??
Each & every day, the Democrats show us just what exactly they are really made of.
Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and her husband have gotten OVER $3,000,000 in “stimulus” funds for their section 8 housing projects.
His campaign manager is mentioned at the end (it didn't make the excerpt).
Two of them, actually. Conlin is running against Grassley, and Culver is running for reelection.
Tar, feathers, politicians. Some assembly required.
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