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February 14, 2009 08:53 AM UTC
4 Comments
For the money to serve the intended purpose, it has to be injected into circulation as quickly as possible, so governors and legislatures had better have good ideas on how to use the stimulus to help their state’s economy as soon as they get the funds.
It also pushes those who opposed the stimulus to either take the money and explain why they suddenly love federal assistance or deny the money and explain why their state is broke.
Clever indeed.
I have no faith that he’ll get moving, instead our weak governor will send it to the legislature.
But your optimism is nice.
He may have to at least consult with senior legislators to keep them in the loop. Both sides of the aisle would go nuts if he didn’t let them get their time on the news to speak on the cooperation between branches and their collective ability to get things done.
Ritter has libraries of projects ready to go. Colorado just never had the funding for reconstruction due to TABOR and Big Oil killing proposals at the ballot box.
I’m confident Ritter has already heard from his cabinet on what’s ready to go on Tuesady. If you like, talk to anyone at CDOT, Dept of Energy, and Dept of Education and you’ll find a list of thousands of shovel ready projects. It’s not the Governor, it’s the economy stupid.