Four months ago, Vice President Joe Biden took a stimulus road trip to St. Cloud, Minnesota to tout the prospects of recovery program jobs. Now the Mayor of St. Cloud, Dave Kleis, is one of the nation's most outspoken stimulus critics.
At the event, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said cities like St. Cloud should expect to see stimulus jobs as early as last spring.
Kleis says he's still waiting for those jobs as he hasn't heard back from the Obama administration to approve nearly a dozen stimulus requests for his town.
But we did a little digging and found some stimulus jobs are coming to St. Cloud. The local sign-making company, Geyer Signal, has hired 25 workers. They make the Recovery Act highway signs that are popping up on interstates around the country.
And the St. Cloud Airport has received funding for a new jet bridge, even though the facility sees only three commercial flights a day.
St. Cloud has weathered the recession well. Thanks to state road construction projects, already underway downtown, the city has an unemployment rate of 7.7 percent. That's far below the national average.
Not good enough for Mayor Kleis who says his city hasn't gotten its fair share of the stimulus.