Maine Stimulus Jobs flaws in reporting‏

 The following submitted by Alicia P.

Hey,

I wanted to make sure you saw the below story from ABC news and the Maine page I found on recovery.gov about this.  If I’m reading it correctly, it claims that there is a 1^st, 2^nd, 23^rd and 92^nd, plus district 00 got nearly 150k.  Here is the link. http://www.recovery.gov/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=stateSummaryAllCD&statecode=ME

 And the link to the ABC news story about the issue.  http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jobs-saved-created-congressional-districts-exist/story?id=9097853

If you are interested in a quote from Jason, I have provided one.  Let me know how I can help.

AP

“My opponent, Congressman Michael Michaud, voted for this stimulus bill that costs taxpayers a trillion dollars and has done almost nothing to create jobs in Maine.  What we see now is irresponsible management of the program. They can call it simply ‘human error’  but I think when you are dealing with a trillion dollars of the people’s money,  there is no room for this kind of massive mistake in the management and maintenance of the program.   I’d like to know where this money actually went.  I’d like to know if Michael Michaud still believes we should hand him and his colleagues another trillion for another government program—this time for healthcare—when we see the government can’t handle it.”  Jason Levesque, Me. 2^nd Congressional District Candidate