House Minority Leader John Boehner is a fierce critic of the stimulus. He recently posted a web video featuring a bloodhound named "Ellie Mae" on the hunt for stimulus jobs. The video asks, "where are the jobs?"
As it turns out, he should have released the hounds on his own home turf. We visited Boehner's Ohio district where we found the Butler County Sheriff got almost a million dollars in stimulus dollars. He's using the money to hold on to correctional officers he had planned to layoff. If he had laid off those officers, the Sheriff says, he would have been forced to release inmates. It's his department's policy to have a maintain a safe ratio of officers to prisoners.
Meanwhile just up the road from the Sheriff we found a stimulus road project that's days away from getting started. It's on I-75... Also in Boehner's district.
Vice President Joe Biden held a campaign style rally in Cincinnati to defend the stimulus. To Boehner's claim of "no jobs," Biden responded "that dog won't bark."
Biden held the event outside an an abandoned warehouse that's slated to get stimulus money. Developers want to use the funds to turn the building into loft apartments.
It was a curious spot for the event. The project's developer says he's still waiting on financing from the bank to start construction.
No wonder Biden asked the crowd for patience.