(Teabagger) Republican candidate Mark Neumann: Companies got $500,000 from stimulus (WI)

[jpak]

http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20120204/APC0101/202040505/Republican-candidate-Mark-Neumann-Companies-got-500-000-from-stimulus

MADISON — Solar energy companies owned by a Tea Party Republican running for an open U.S. Senate seat in Wisconsin who is opposed to the 2009 federal stimulus package have received $500,000 in grants under the program.

The Associated Press first reported Thursday that GOP candidate Mark Neumann's company Neumann Solar Leasing received about $81,000 in grants last year. But Neumann said Friday that company and another one, MN Solar Leasing, had gotten even more in stimulus grants and other tax credits.

The U.S. Treasury Department confirmed Friday that MN Solar Leasing got nearly $418,000 in stimulus grants. Additionally, Neumann said the two companies collectively have received another $250,000 in income tax credits under the Bush tax credits.

Neumann, who is one of three Republican candidates running for the Senate seat, has been a critic of the 2009 stimulus program enacted by Congress as a way to spur economic investment in the midst of a recession. In his 2010 campaign for governor, Neumann said he would devote any Wisconsin stimulus money to tax cuts and reducing the state's debt.

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[madrchsod]

1. these people are really really dumb.....

they actually think no one would notice?