Pages 490-491 of A.R.R.A- State Legislatures can accept the funds with or without Governor approval

[underpants]

So for all of Jindal and Perry and Sanford's collective blowhard activity to ACT like they don't want the funds the states can and most likely will get them anyway. In the meantime we have to listen to these guys get air time to pander for the GOP nomination 4 years from now.


http://appropriations.house.gov/pdf/Recovery_Bill_Div_A.pdf

SEC. 1607. (a) CERTIFICATION BY GOVERNOR.–Not
26 later than 45 days after the date of enactment of this Act,
1 for funds provided to any State or agency thereof, the
2 Governor of the State shall certify that: (1) the State will
3 request and use funds provided by this Act, (2) and the
4 funds will be used to create jobs and promote economic
5 growth.

6 (b) ACCEPTANCE BY STATE LEGISLATURE.-If funds
7 provided to any State in any division of this Act are not
8 accepted for use by the Governor, then acceptance by the
9 State legislature, by means of the adoption of a concurrent
10 resolution, shall be sufficient to provide funding to such
11 State.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. OK, time for activists in LA and other states

to call their state reps and state senators. In my experience, these folks really pay attention when someone calls on them, because they know those folks mean business. Tell them their political lives depend upon accepting the stimulus money.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. write letters to the editors and call in to the radio stations and CSPAN

humiliate them

[Ernesto]

3. DUH!

Good Call on getting the facts out there.
Honestly, does anybody on this forum believe that these grandstanding pukes would risk being voted out for taking these idiotic positions?

[blogslut]

4. Yep

Rick Perry is tap dancing for 2012.

As for my state legislature, well I guess it's time to make some calls to my State Rep and State Senator. There's the possibility some of the funds may get blocked anyway but Texas is changing so you never know. The GOP controls the Lege only barely.

Oddly, I live in the reddest county in the United states yet my state Rep and Senator are 20 times more reasonable than my two wacky US Senators and sycophantic US Rep.

[gratuitous]

5. (Gasp!) Y-you don't mean to say . . .

That Jindal and Sanford and the rest of them are just engaging in cynical demagoguery? Oh, say it isn't so!

[underpants]

7. Don't forget Perry

he has an ace up his sleave-the GOP base will be so old in 4 years they will think he is Romney

Squint your eyes and don't get a TV converter and you tell me

[ThoughtCriminal]

6. Problem - our state legislature is just as wacked out

as our governor. Maybe more.

[elocs]

8. I think I heard on Hardball or NBC news tonight that the legislatures could simply take the funds

no matter what the governor did.