On Stimulus Anniversary, NRCC Releases New Website: TextsfromLastCongress.com

February 17, 2011

FYI, a similar version of this release below went out to the following districts: Jason Altmire (PA-04), John Barrow (GA-12), Sanford Bishop (GA-02), Dan Boren (OK-02), Leonard Boswell (IA-03), Bruce Braley (IA-01), Russ Carnahan (MO-03), Ben Chandler (KY-06), Gerry Connolly (VA-11), Jim Costa (CA-20), Raul Grijalva (AZ-07), Martin Heinrich (NM-01), Jim Himes (CT-04), Maurice Hinchey (NY-22), Ruben Hinojosa (TX-15), Dale Kildee (MI-05), Ron Kind (WI-03), Jim Matheson (UT-02), Mike McIntyre (NC-07), Jerry McNerney (CA-11), Brad Miller (NC-13), Ed Perlmutter (CO-07), Gary Peters (MI-09), Chellie Pingree (ME-01), Nick Rahall (WV-03), Mike Ross (AR-04), Betty Sutton (OH-13), David Wu (OR-01)

On Stimulus Anniversary, NRCC Releases New Website: TextsfromLastCongress.com

We Know What You Did Two Years Ago, Jim Matheson: It Wasn’t Creating Jobs

Washington—In marking the second anniversary of the passage of the $814 billion stimulus package, the National Republican Congressional Committee has given Jim Matheson a painful reminder of the toxic piece of legislation he supported that has hardly lived up to its lofty promises. In debuting “Texts From Last Congress”, the NRCC puts Democrats like Matheson in the hot seat as they struggle to explain their vote for a law that has only piled debt onto the backs of hard-working families while stifling job creation.

“Jim Matheson’s failed stimulus, which only grew the size of government and put America deeper into debt, epitomizes his party’s big government, big spending ways,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay. “Two years later, Democrats have yet to own up to their reckless policies that continue to stifle job creation. ‘Texts From Last Congress’ serves as a reminder to Jim Matheson that Americans weren’t sold on the stimulus then, and they’re still not sold on the Democrats’ continued big-government policies today.”

As Matheson pauses today to reflect on the second anniversary of the stimulus package he so valiantly defended, Utah voters are left to deal with the consequences of having a Representative that ignored his constituents. “Texts From Last Congress” is a reminder to Jim Matheson that he, for far too long, toed the line of the Democratic Party that spends too much, borrows too much and taxes us all too much.

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