North Carolina has not been left out in the phantom districts stimulus sweepstakes. It has six of the 440 phantom districts in which the Obama administration has claimed stimulus jobs were “saved or created”:
North Carolina has distributed more than $5.7 million in federal stimulus money to six congressional districts that do not exist, according to Recovery.gov.
According to Recovery.gov, the six districts, the number of jobs created, and the amount spent, are:
37th congressional district, 2 jobs, $3,925,318
86th congressional district, 40 jobs, $1,255,629
24th congressional district, 2.3 jobs, $200,625
14th congressional district, 0 jobs, $180,848
00 congressional district, 0 jobs, $90,248
91st congressional district, 54, $69,563
For the record, North Carolina has only 13 actual congressional districts. Here’s how Recovery.gov says they fared:
13th congressional district (Miller, D), 21,304.3 jobs, $1,097,112,330
4th congressional district (Price, D), 1,371.8 jobs, $812,267,476
2nd congressional district (Etheridge, D), 3,531.7 jobs, $799,600,843
1st congressional district (Butterfield, D), 277.5 jobs, $266,748,698
12th congressional district (Watt, D), 261.2 jobs, $243,996,100
3rd congressional district (Jones, F), 260.3 jobs, $197,530,838
7th congressional district (McIntyre, D), 237.5 jobs, $187,880,307
11th congressional district (Shuler, D), 193.6 jobs, $174,916,016
5th congressional district (Foxx, R), 111.7 jobs, $149,349,233
8th congressional district (Kissell, D), 112.2 jobs, $122,681,187
6th congressional district (Coble, R), 149.4 jobs, $96,321,828
10th congressional district (McHenry, R), 71.5 jobs, $87,959,472
9th congressional district (Myrick, R), 92.5, $60,648,183
UPDATE: Which brings up the question: How did Brad Miller “create or save” jobs that are the equivalent of a Duke or an IBM without even a press release announcing it?
