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Lungren - Elk Grove’s Marie Antoinette?
Over the last several weeks various news outlets have been reporting on the so-called Republican “Cash and Trash” Strategy.
The strategy has been to publicly trash the stimulus plan while at the same time taking credit in their home jurisdictions for the delivery of the much-needed funding. Kind of a whine globally, take credit locally strategy.
Yesterday Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called out his fellow Republicans on national television for the obvious hypocrisy.
"I find it interesting that you have a lot of the Republicans running around and pushing back on the stimulus money and saying this doesn't create any new jobs," Schwarzenner said. "And then they go out and they do the photo ops and they are posing with the big check and they say, 'isn't this great?'"
Closer to home, Elk Grove’s representative in Congress, Republican Congressman Dan Lungren has too played loose and fast with his position on the stimulus plan. Last year Lungren voted lockstep with his fellow Republicans against the plan.
Once the money started flowing into the district, it was a different story though. Suddenly Lungren saw the light and said the stimulus money would help the area.
Not unlike Marie Antoinette, Lungren wants to have his cake and eat it too.
