Dispatch:
.....Columbus, Ga., Mayor Jim Wetherington said he does not know if the federal government will approve his request for a piece of the $787 billion stimulus package to help refurbish a 340,000-square-foot facility and construct a 100,000-square-foot building for NCR to manufacture automated teller machines....
.....Sen. Sherrod Brown, who cast the deciding vote in the Senate to pass the stimulus bill this year, urged the Obama administration to prevent stimulus money "from being used for this purpose."
In a letter to Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, the Ohio Democrat wrote that the purpose of the stimulus bill "is to create or retain jobs, not to relocate them from state to state. Stimulus funds should not be used in a manner that benefits one local economy at the expense of another."
Do you believe the nerve of that mayor? If you can't afford to make accommodations for NCR, why did you pursue them? Why should he be rewarded for stealing jobs from another state?
Please contact the Department of Commerce and tell them that Georgia should not be rewarded for stealing jobs from Ohio: contact information for Department of Commerce.
U.S. Department of Commerce Main: (202) 482-2000 Mail
1401 Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20230 Phone