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Strickland, Kasich agree - sort of - on stimulus bucks and NCR
Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland and former Republican U.S. Rep. John Kasich, Strickland’s potential challenger next year, don’t seem to agree on much but they may have one thing in common.
Both think using any federal stimulus money to help NCR leave Dayton and consolidate its world headquarters in Atlanta stinks.
“The governor believes federal Recovery Act resources were provided to states to create and retain jobs in their communities, not to be used as a tool to raid jobs in other states,” Amanda Wurst, Strickland’s spokeswoman, said in a prepared statement.
Rob Nichols, Kasich’s press secretary provided this:
“Ohioans will remember that Gov. Strickland led his fellow governors to Washington, D.C. to beg for federal stimulus money to bail him out. Now that same money is being used by the state of Georgia to lure NCR away from its 125 years home in Dayton, Ohio.”
The federal bucks haven’t exactly landed in Georgia yet.
Columbus, Ga. Mayor Jim Wetherington told Dayton Daily News Washington correspondent Jessica Wehrman that his city has requested $5 million in stimulus money to go toward buying a building for NCR employees and also for construction of a building for an NCR manufacturing operation.
See Wehrman’s story for details.
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By Big O
June 4, 2009 10:07 AM | Link to this
Obama said that “stimulus money is just about spending”. It does not matter how we waste or spend this money, it just needs to be dumped. Well, Georgia is dumping it. but NCR knows that taxes are much lower.By Well Hell!!!!
June 4, 2009 12:46 AM | Link to this
May I comment on something not related to this article…as n50 has done? I have a pimple on my butt… does anyone know if “Proactive” will work on “gludes” (butt cheeks)…I’ve been told that it will…but I’ve heard that NCR has stolen the formula, and is ready to whisk it off to Georgia. Any truth to this? Will a zit remain after NCR is gone?By n50
June 3, 2009 10:30 PM | Link to this
Another “NO-hio presentation! Lets let another business get away! And all you state reps…lets add another year to the dozen or so that you’ve failed to obey the state supreme court’s third ruling that requires you to change the unconstitutional school funding system! All you’s guys and the Gov too should be recalled for failure to uphold your oath of office by keeping our illegal school funding laws still on the books and in effect!