republican congressmen with the giant check, right? you weren t one of those republican congressmen who was a real hypocrite on the stimulus, were you? here s how that exchange went on that radio show. i assume you voted against the stimulus, and i m just curious if you accepted any money in your district? no, i m not one of those people who votes for something and writes the government to ask them to send us money. i did not request any stimulus money. i did not request new stimulus money. i m not one of those people. yes, in fact, he is one of those people. he did that exact thing that he denied right there. and his hypocrisy on this issue criticizing it publicly then privately asking for it for himself, it did get some attention at the time. frankly, paul ryan was just a back bench wisconsin republican. granted he was one who wanted to be known as somebody who s very serious about government spending but he wasn t all that famous and the issue of his hypocrisy on the stimulus
letter in private to the secretary of transportation asking for the terrible, horrible stimulus money to come to your district. stimulus money that, will provide much needed new jobs and economic growth throughout the region. that s what eric cantor wrote to transportation secretary ray lahood. after bashing the stimulus as pointless waste, here s eric cantor touting the benefits of stimulus money when it made its way to his district. we can create a lot of jobs, again, the estimates of job creations are 85,000 to 160,000-some jobs for common wealth. most of that in this area. there were a bunch of republicans who did this, and the issue here is not that there was going to be this money laying around and they didn t want that money to be around at all, but as long as it was there, you try to get some for your district. that s not the issue here. the issue here is that these guys were making a public case that this money is bad, that it would hurt the economy. but then privately,