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Kaptur wants to know why Dayton got more stimulus love than Toledo
You don’t often hear lawmakers publicly state their jealousy of Dayton. But in March, U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Toledo was positively green with Dayton envy.
Here’s Kaptur, a Democrat, in a hearing earlier this year of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development, talking about economic stimulus dollars:
“Beyond that, I wanted to give you a sense of how recovery dollars had come down to us in Toledo versus Dayton, two cities of similar size, both highly — high rates of unemployment, over 15 percent. Dayton got $20 million through the transit money. Toledo got $8 million. We love Dayton. The reason Dayton got $20 million through the transit money is because they have some kind of fixed guideway system from 25 years ago or something.
“We don’t have anything like that, but we have two universities — well, two campuses of a university — that want to interconnect. And we have a plan in place to do that. For some reason, our Transit Authority didn’t get anything. I just think that somehow in the recovery dollars in the transit, if we’re really serious about this, maybe a discussion there could help.”
We smell a rivalry….
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By Jessica
May 19, 2009 2:14 PM | Link to this
Anon - thanks for the heads up on the typo. I appreciate it.By Hawk
May 16, 2009 10:51 AM | Link to this
Are you kidding, Anon? Nobody at the DDN can proofread.By keyz
May 15, 2009 12:53 PM | Link to this
Marci Kaptur is psycho…Dayton has 3 college/university campuses (and it actually is a smaller city) with UD, WSU, and Sinclair. Additionally, I would suspect that Kaptur’s plan didn’t hold water. The 2 campuses she’s talking about are UT and the medical school. Both of which are on opposite sides of the city and both are not near a highway. Much demo work and property would need to be taken in order to connect these two campuses!By Anon
May 15, 2009 11:25 AM | Link to this
Hello Reporter…last time I checked you don’t use monetary symbols with time. “from $25 years ago” That makes a WHOLE lot of sense. Please proof before publishing. More than just your eyes would help!