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Last Updated on Monday, 23 February 2009 12:46 Written by rslcpol Monday, 23 February 2009 10:11
RSLC’s President Scott Ward and others on the stimulus package:
“This shows that states like Idaho that have creative ideas … are being stymied by an uncreative, old-ideas bill,” says Scott Ward, president of the Republican State Leadership Committee in Washington.
The rebel governors may be playing to simmering taxpayer discontent over the size and obligations of the package, evident in anti-tax protests across the country, including one that greeted President Obama recently in Denver. Politically, the GOP has found some success in painting the package as an overblown spending bill. Support for the package has waned in recent days, polls show.