MinnPost - D.C. Dispatches: Despite opposing stimulus, Bachmann, Paulsen sought money for their home districts

Michele Bachmann has campaigned saying the stimulus was a "failure" and has criticized it repeatedly, including in a Townhall.com blog in January headlined "Stimulus is not creating jobs."

Yet despite her vocal opposition to the law, the founder of the House Tea Party Caucus quietly sent at least six letters to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood urging stimulus funding for transportation projects in her district.

In one of them, in support of $300 million in spending for the $700 milliion replacement-bridge project crossing the St. Croix River, Bachmann cited a MnDOT estimate that the project would create nearly 3,000 jobs. In others, she noted that the projects would have economic benefits beyond just the projects in question, spurring development and private sector hiring in the communities surrounding the proposed stimulus projects.
MinnPost - D.C. Dispatches: Despite opposing stimulus, Bachmann, Paulsen sought money for their home districts

LINK TO THE LETTERS: http://www.minnpost.com/client_files/pdfs/BachmannRequest.pdf