The Hill reports the DNC released a new web video this morning accusing House Minority Leader John Boehner of “willfully misleading the public about the effect of the President’s economic recovery package to score political points.”
According to DNC Press Secretary Hari Sevugan:
“Either way, considering that the Republican ‘alternative’ included ZERO funding for construction projects, it’s the height of hypocrisy for Boehner to criticize the status of these projects at all,” Sevugan added. “I’d say it’s time for John Boehner to decide who he really represents — the people of Ohio or the ‘Party of NO’ — but he’s already made that clear through his false and irresponsible claims.”
Boehner spokesman Michael Steel responded:
Ohio was very nearly the last state to get the first 50 percent of its stimulus construction money obligated for construction projects, which is ridiculous. As of late May, approximately, no contracts had been signed. Since that time, some contracts have been belatedly set in motion, but the entire process has been absurdly slow-moving — just as Republicans warned it would be last winter when we called for an economic recovery bill based on fast-acting tax relief for small businesses and working families rather than spending on slow-moving government programs. It’s embarrassing that the DNC can’t defend its own indefensible trillion-dollar stimulus that isn’t working and resorts to desperate tactics like this.