Click here to listen to a press conference call held earlier today "in response to the many falsehoods spread by Republicans in Virginia about the success of the Recovery Act both nationally and state-wide." To the contrary, DPVA chair Dick Cranwell and Rep. Gerry Connolly pointed out, there has been "tremendous progress throughout the state resulting from the Recovery Act passed earlier this year." With regard to our friend Eric Cantor, Democratic National Committee Press Secretary Hari Sevugan said:Congressman Cantor has been out and about essentially spreading misleading information about the effect of the Recovery Act. He says, "the Recovery Act has not produced jobs." That is flat-out false. In fact, he has touted jobs that will be created by the Recovery Act on his own website.DPVA Chair Dick Cranwell added:
I've been rather amused at Eric Cantor's comments. He and I were colleagues for a long time, and I find it kind of amusing that a guy who was one of George Bush's chief lieutenants that gave us...let the Democrats inherit probably the greatest economic disaster since the Great Depression. And the Stimulus Act, I think, has worked admirably well...the money's really starting to flow...Eric, you go to his own website, he says the high-speed rail is gonna create 185,000 new jobs, yet he says that the stimulus package is not working. Where I grew up out in Richland, they had an old saying, "those dogs don't hunt in the same pack." Now, if this high-speed rail project is gonna create 185,000 jobs in a corridor from northern Virginia down to Richmond, a good portion of that is Eric Cantor territory...I can pick off some projects that are going on as we speak in his district...Finally, Gerry Connolly commented, "What's ironic about my colleague Congressman Cantor is that he...successfully roped every Republican member of the House to oppose [the Economic Recovery Act]… and claimed that the act hasn't generated the jobs hoped for, while at home he's writing letters urging that a major chunk of that money be invested in his district."
Great stuff, listen to it all here.
