Well, since Ms.Dede Scozzafava, the aforementioned state legislator, backed the “stimulus,” let’s check Recovery.gov to see just how this $787 billion plan is working out for her state. With the Empire State receiving $59,970,000 in federal funds (of $750,000,000 awarded from this budget boondoggle, 656, that’s right, 656 jobs, by the government’s count, have been created (or saved). That’s only 17.644 fewer jobs than the number of private sector jobs lost in the month of September (2009) alone. That’ll should put a big dent in the state’s 8.9% unemployment rate.
That should provide one clue why rank and file Republicans (as well as a plurality of independents) aren’t satisfied with the GOP nominee in the upcoming special election in the state’s 23rd congressional district?