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Turner to Strickland: Tell VP to lay off NCR stimulus money
It’s safe to say U.S. Rep. Mike Turner is using all avenues to express his displeasure with a Columbus, Ga., request for $5 million to bring NCR manufacturing jobs to that city.
First he and House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-West Chester, wrote President Obama to argue that the request would be an inappropriate use of stimulus money. Then, yesterday, he grilled Office of Management and Budget Director Rob Nabors about whether the request was appropriate.
And today, Thursday, July 9, he sent a letter to Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland asking him to urge Vice President Biden to investigate whether whether the stimulus is being used to lure NCR jobs to Georgia. Biden, tasked with overseeing the stimulus expenditures, was in Cincinnati Thursday to check on the status of stimulus dollars.
“Please bring this matter to the attention of the Vice President and ask that he use his oversight role to ensure that such funds not be used as part of the package that shifted jobs from Ohio,” Turner, R-Centerville, wrote to Strickland.
The $5 million Columbus, Ga. is requesting would be used to renovate and buy a building for manufacturing jobs currently being performed in South Carolina.
NCR earlier this year announced it was moving its world headquarters from Dayton to Georgia, and Turner argues any expenditure of stimulus money used to facilitate the consolidation of NCR jobs in Georgia would be dollars used to take jobs from Dayton.
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