Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Obama using executive authority to entice key constituencies

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has repeatedly accused President Obama of running a cynical, divisive campaign.
“His campaign strategy is to smash America apart and then try to cobble together 51 percent of the pieces,” Romney said earlier this month.
And Obama has repeatedly over the past several months used his executive authority to reward certain key constituencies, a process sometimes referred to as “vote buying.”
Here are five prominent examples:

1. $12 million in transportation funding for Ohio

Several days before a scheduled campaign event in Ohio last week, the Obama administration announced the release of more than $450 million in unspent high funds to various states as part of the widely mocked “We Can’t Wait” campaign.
Ohio is set to receive more than $12 million for transportation and infrastructure projects.
The White House also announced the launch of a “public-private institute for manufacturing innovation” in Youngstown, Ohio, less than a week before the president’s visit to the state.

Read more: http://freebeacon.com/sugar-daddy-in-chief/

 

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