Make no mistake, U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fort Myers, opposes the federal stimulus.
He’s decried President Barack Obama’s American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009, which poured $787 billion into the economy, a
"waste of money" and a move "to ignore the will of the American
people."
He’s released media statements and ads accusing Obama and Sen.
Bill Nelson, whom he wants to unseat from the U.S. Senate, of pushing a stimulus
that wasted "millions in taxpayer dollars" on things like cocaine-addicted
monkeys. (PolitiFact pegged that ad as Mostly
False.)
"I’ve said time and time again, we cannot spend our way to
prosperity," Mack said in a 2010 media release about the stimulus.
That’s
why, on the night of the Oct.
17 Senate debate, Nelson was prepared to use Mack’s own political weight
against him.
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