Arkansas' Non-Existent Congressional Districts Get Big Bucks

Jobs 'Saved or Created' in Congressional Districts That Don't Exist: "ABC News has found many more entries for projects like this in places that are incorrectly identified. Late Monday, officials with the Recovery Board created to track the stimulus spending, said the mistakes in crediting nonexistent congressional districts were caused by human error."

24 Jobs at $951,895.83 each in Arkansas’ '76th Congressional District. Wow - that kind of money would really stimulate Arkansas!

Republican United States Senate candidate Col. Conrad Reynolds (U.S. Army, Ret.) issued congratulations to Arkansas’s non-existent 76th, 6th, 7th, 15th, 5th and 00th Congressional Districts “saving or creating” 48 jobs to the tune of nearly $24 million according to Recovery.gov:

“I wish to congratulate President Obama and Sen. Lincoln for creating a stimulus program which not only allegedly ‘creates or saves’ jobs, but appears to ‘create or save’ entirely new congressional districts.

Having managed millions in taxpayer dollars during my military career, I knew I would be held accountable for reporting errors or mismanagement. Sadly, this type of error in Washington is not surprising, given that the stimulus bill was hurried through and voted on without ever having been fully read.

We must restore accountability in Washington and responsibility for those who recklessly account for our runaway spending. I call on Sen. Lincoln to publicly demand from President Obama an immediate fix to these outrageous errors and demand a thorough and transparent accounting of the money spent, its location and the true amount of jobs created so citizens can be better informed and begin to have their faith in government restored.”

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