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ANN KENEVAN on May 13, 2025

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OBAMA'S $861 BILLION DOLLARS of shovel ready jobs for democrats! Here's a list of 100 head scratchers ... 1.“Almost Empty” Mall Awarded Energy Grant ($5 million)... View MoreOBAMA'S $861 BILLION DOLLARS of shovel ready jobs for democrats! Here's a list of 100 head scratchers ... 1.“Almost Empty” Mall Awarded Energy Grant ($5 million) 2. Renovations for Federal Building as Expensive as New Building ($133 million) 3. DTV Advertising Agency Generates Three Jobs ($5.9 million) 4. Research to Develop Supersonic Corporate Jets ($4.7 Million) 5. Water Pipeline to a Money-Losing Golf Course ($2.2 million) 6. Police Boat Gets High-Tech Upgrade Even As Force May be Downsized ($190,000) 7. Program to Control Home Appliances From a Remote Location ($787,250) 8. 18-Mile Tourist Rail Extended ($2 million) 9. Dinner Cruise Company Gets Terrorism Prevention Money ($943,190) 10. Hanford Nuclear Site Gets Billions for Failed Cleanup Effort ($1.9 billion) 11. All Aboard The Wine Train!($54 million) 12. Broadband Map That May be Obsolete by the Time It’s Complete ($350 million) 13. Grant to Fund Search for Fossils ... In Argentina ($1.57 million) 14. Anti-Capitalist, Socially-Conscious Puppet Shows ($100,000) 15. Trail to Minnesota Twins Baseball Stadium ($484,572) 16. Inspector General Questions New Anti-Gunrunning Teams ($10 million) 17. Buffalo Residents Paid to Keep Daily Journal of Malt Liquor and Marijuana Use ($389,357) 18. Oklahoma River Cruise Boats Get Transportation Funding ($1.8 million) 19. Government Spends Money on Salaries and Overhead ($186 million) 20. Repaved Georgia Road ... Getting Repaved Again ($88,000) 21. Little-Used Bridge for Beachgoers Gets a Paint Job ($3.1 million) 22. Federal Building With Uncertain Future Gets Huge Makeover ($117 million) 23. Studying the Icelandic Arctic Environment in the Viking Age ($94,902) 24. Bobber the Water Safety Dog Costumes ($21,116) 25. Shakespearean Festivals ($225,000) 26.“Clown” Theatrical Production ($25,000) 27. County Agency Mismanages Millions, Gets Millions More ($11.9 million) 28. Free Rides on a Water Taxi to Relieve Downtown Congestion ($1.6 million) 29. Studying the Learning Patterns of Honeybees ($210,000) 30. Money for Exit Polling……in Africa ($233,825) 31. Contemporary Art Sculpture: A Series of Giant Tubes ($13,000) 32. Surf and Squat Rest Stop in Texas ($13.8 million) 33. Study on "Hookup" Behavior of Female College Coeds ($219,000) 34. Developing the Next Generation of Football Gloves ($150,000) 35. Study of Wildflowers in a Ghost Town ($448,995) 36. Jazz Festivals ($400,000) 37. Another Golf Course Gets Recycled Water ($831,700) 38. Recovering Crab Pots Lost At Sea ($700,000) 39. New Hampshire Buys Buses It Doesn’t Need ($2 million) 40. Martini Bar and Brazilian Steak House Remodeling ($100,000) 41. Stimulus-Funded Workers with No Work ($3.2 million) 42. States Spend Big Bucks on Stimulus Highway Signs ($1.3 million) 43. Highway “Beautified” by Fish Art 44. Fish Food ($50 million) 45. Museum Dedicated to “Man’s Relationship With the Horse”($1.2 million) 46. Pennsylvania Police Department Purchases Two Horses ($40,000) 47. College Students Visit Costa Rica for Summer Studies ($564,635) 48. Pennsylvania Paves Bike Lane on Deteriorating Local Road ($2 million) 49. California Gets Money to Upgrade Computer System ... Twice ($60 million) 50. Arizona Ants Work While Some Arizonans Remain Unemployed ($950,000) 51. Study On Why Young Men Do Not Like Condoms ($221,355) 52. Firm with Tax Fraud, Pollution History Wins Road Contract ($21.8 million) 53. Agency with Habit of Losing Pricey Equipment Gets Funds for Major IT Upgrade ($85 million) 54. Arkansas Teachers to Attend Education Conference ($413,124) 55. Firm under Criminal Investigation Awarded Construction Contract ($6.4 million) 56. Homeland Security Funds Assist Boat Tours of Alcatraz ($50,783) 57. Money for Companies with a History of Environmental or Workplace Safety Penalties ($54 million) 58.“Math and Literacy Coaches” for North Carolina Teachers ($4.4 million) 59. OSU Professor to Study Alaska Native Grandparents ($1.1 million) 60. Town of 838 to Renovate Old Hotel into a Welcome Center ($300,000) 61. Methamphetamines and the Female Rat Sex Drive ...($30,000) 62.... Study on Mice and Alcohol ($8,408) 63. Locals Plan Bridge Funding, Feds Insist on Paying ($5 million) 64. Wastewater Treatment Center with “Talking Water Gardens”($8 million) 65. Obsolete Bridge Converted to Bike Path ($5.6 million) 66. Youth Summer Jobs Program Fails to Put Kids to Work ($1.2 billion) 67. Colorado Climbing Gym Gets Renewable Energy Grant for Solar Panels ($157,800) 68. Colorado Dragon Boat Festival ($10,000) 69. Low-Priority Airports Get Money from FAA ($272 million) 70. Storytelling Festival in Utah ($15,000) 71. Beautification of Hollywood’s Sunset Strip ($1.1 million) 72. Half of Stimulus Contracts Not Competitively Bid 73. Hollywood Entertainment Museum ($20,000) 74. Controversial Helicopter Program Gets Stimulus Boost ($20,000) 75. Contracts Awarded to Firms Suspended for Suspected Fraud ($30 million) 76. Amtrak Loses $32 Per Passenger, Rewarded with Windfall ($1.3 billion) 77. Fire Station without Firefighters ($2 million) 78. Low Priority Waste Water Projects Getting Stimulus Funds ($47.8 million) 79. Money for Lighthouse Repairs on Uninhabited Island (Nearly $1.5 million) 80. College with Teachers “Unqualified to Teach in Their Fields” Receive Millions ($31.3 million) 81. Brooklyn Slumlord Gets Share of Stimulus Funds ($270,000) 82. Protecting against Carpet Beetles ($187,632) 83. Indiana Sending Half of Weatherization Funds to Politically Active Builders Group ($66 million) 84. Pedestrian Bridge Few Will Use ($80,000) 85. Town Doesn’t Know What to Do With Money ($25,000) 86. Dance Troupe to Weatherize Homes in Washington, D.C.($935,000) 87. SBA Loan Program Expects 60 Percent Default Rate ($255 million) 88. Removing Lead Paint from a Pedestrian Bridge ($3.5 million) 89. School District Splurges on iPod Touches ($75,129) 90. Global Warming Field Trip to Copenhagen for 11 Students ($49,818) 91. Audit Finds Abuse of Tax Credit Program ($504 million) 92. Ohio Town to Turn Railroad Crossings into “Quiet Zone”($800,000) 93. Pennsylvania Winery Uses Stimulus Funds to Help Pay for Building Already under Construction ($25,000) 94. Abandoned “Eyesore” Train Station to Get Green Renovation ($1.8 million) 95. Despite Delays and Overruns, Space Telescope Gets Boost ($65 million) 96. Museum Receives Geothermal Grant after Hosting Stimulus Signing Ceremony ($2.6 million) 97. Money to Airport Authority Cited for Having Problems Managing Federal Money ($9.6 million) 98. Bureaucratic Bungling Slows Homeless Prevention Grants in Nevada ($4.1 million) 99. Learning to Cooperate by Observing Birds ($90,000) 100. Climate-Controlled Water Taxis Get New Home ($750,000) *Check out the Report: http://coburn.senate.gov/public/

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May 13, 2025

ANN KENEVAN

WHAT WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAN UPGRADES A NEWARK ? PAYING OFF HILLARY CAMPAIGN DEBT? Mark Penn's two firms got $6 million from stimulus for PR campaign By Alexander Bolton - 12/09/09... View More

Firms owned by Clinton pollster received $6M in stimulus funds nypost.com

May 13, 2025