(Columbus) - Ohio Republican Party Spokesman John McClelland issued the following statement today regarding an Ohio Democratic Party conference call on economic recovery in Ohio:
"The Democratic Party's reckless government spending spree clearly isn't working, so they're wasting more tax dollars to send Joe Biden out here to put lipstick on a pig. Ohio's unemployment rate is at its highest level in a quarter century, and nearly 70,000 Ohioans have lost their jobs since Democrats passed the stimulus bill in February.
Other states are even trying to use stimulus dollars to lure major companies away from Ohio, and it's working. The Democrats failed to deliver on their promise to turn around our economy, and Ohioans are realizing that President Obama and Gov. Strickland are out of ideas and out of people to blame."
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The Columbus Dispatch: Frustrated Ohioans are starting to blame President Barack Obama for the state's economic problems, according to a statewide poll released today. Obama's approval rating is in a free-fall in Ohio, considered by many political observers to be the most important swing state in a presidential election. A new survey by the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute shows that only 49 percent of the state's voters approve of the way Obama is handling his job, 13 points lower than the 62 percent who gave Obama a thumbs up in a May 6 Quinnipiac poll of Ohioans. (7/07/09)
Washington Post: In light of the latest unemployment figures, there are more persistent questions coming at the administration. Did Obama and his team get it right last winter when they put together their $787 billion stimulus package, or did they undershoot? If they made a mistake, what should they do now? The administration is trying to tamp down talk that it didn't get it quite right -- talk created by Vice President Biden. On Sunday, he told ABC's George Stephanopoulos, "We and everyone else misread the economy." But he insisted that the stimulus "is the right package given the circumstances we're in." (7/8/09)
Cincinnati Enquirer: Ohio's unemployment rate continued to climb in May and hit 10.8 percent, making the Buckeye State one of the nation's hardest hit by unemployment. The rate was Ohio's highest since October 1983, when the jobless reading hit 10.9 percent, according to the state Department of Job and Family Services.
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