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Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Turner prods OMB director to reject NCR stimulus funding
U.S. Rep. Mike Turner has asked the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget to bar the federal government from spending $5 million in stimulus dollars to move NCR jobs to Georgia.
During a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Wednesday, July 8, Turner, R-Centerville, related to OMB Director Rob Nabors how NCR was moving its world headquarters from Dayton to Georgia and how Columbus, Ga., had requested $5 million in stimulus money to help renovate a building to move manufacturing jobs from South Carolina to Georgia.
“Is this an appropriate and allowable expense under stimulus guidelines?” asked Turner, who with House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-West Chester, wrote a letter to President Obama in June opposing the request in June.
Nabors responded that while he didn’t have specifics on the request, the description was “disturbing.”
“This does not sound like an appropriate use of recovery dollars,” he said.
He said he would talk to his office’s general counsel about the request.
While the $5 million would not go toward physically moving jobs from Ohio to Georgia, Turner argues any use of stimulus money aimed at facilitating the consolidation of NCR World Headquarters in Georgia is inappropriate. He said the expenditure would be the equivalent of using federal dollars to buy jobs away from other states, and “violates the spirit of the law.”
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UAW endorses Fisher
Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher Wednesday, July 8, garnered the endorsement of the state’s United Auto Workers, a group of more than 134,000. The UAW is one of the state’s largest unions, with workers at 291 facilities across the state, according to a release by Fisher’s campaign.
Ken Lortz, director of UAW Region 2B, covering all of Ohio, said Fisher “is a proven leader who will fight to keep manufacturing jobs in Ohio and work to strengthen our domestic auto industry.”
“American auto workers have been hit hard by the economic crisis and we need a voice in Washington that will stand up for the working men and women of Ohio,” he said.
Fisher formerly served as the state’s economic development director. He faces Democrat Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner in the primary to replace Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, who is retiring at the end of 2010. Republicans running include northern Ohio car dealer Tom Ganley and former U.S. Rep. Rob Portman, R-Terrace Park.
