Democrat Representative Patrick “Patlosi” Murphy wants Bucks County voters to know that last Friday’s crappy job numbers would not have been possible without his awesome hard work giving grant money to his political contributors.
I guess thanks and other accolades can be sent directly to his office. It’s not like you’re going to be able to express your appreciation at a town hall meeting, because Murphy is running scared and won’t hold one. Which is weird, because things have been so awesome since he was elected in 2006.
“[T]oday’s positive jobs numbers are another sign that we are on the right track to recovery and cannot afford to go back to the failed Bush-Fitzpatrick economic policies that got us into this mess,” he said in a press release.
“Positive job numbers?” Let’s talk about numbers. I’m thinking of a number between one and ten. Anyone got a guess? It’s 4.4. Coincidentally, 4.4% was the Unemployment Rate in December 2006 when Mike Fitzpatrick left office. After three and a half years of the Pelosi / Murphy agenda, the Unemployment Rate has now more than doubled and stands at 9.7%.
Overall, the unemployment rate fell to 9.7 percent from 9.9 percent. The dip partly reflected 322,000 people leaving the labor force.
The number of people out of work six months or longer reached 6.76 million in May, a new high. They made up 46 percent of all unemployed people, also a record high.
Murphy pointed to his support of tax credits in the green construction industry for helping a Bucks resident find work and a $150,000 grant from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to help land a small business in Bristol Township.
That’s right, voters. Why don’t you just back off of Patlosi? Don’t you know he helped “a” Bucks resident find work? Only 394,400 working-aged Bucks County residents to go!
James Horan, CEO of Y-Carbon Inc. & Y-Energy, relocated in the Bridge Business Center and increased the size of his company from two to 10 employees.
Horan, who moved into the new facility in March, said “We’re recruiting and looking for additional employees. Within a year we’d like to be close to 25 employees.”
James Horan. Now why does that name ring a bell? Oh, that right. James Horan provided 20% of the funding for a Political Action Committee whose sole recipient during the 2008 election was…Patrick Patlosi Murphy.
Horan gives his money to a PAC. The PAC gives Horan’s money to Patlosi. Patlosi gives your money to Horan’s company. It’s a win-win. Uh, for everyone but you, that is.
In April 2008, someone named James Horan of Doylestown contributed $600 to HEP PAC, a small Doylestown-based Political Action Committee established that same month. Government filings show that the PAC received $3,100 in total for that election cycle. By that account, Horan provided 20% of the group’s funding.
The same James Horan, listed as the COO of PA Biotech Center in his donation filing, is now the CEO of Y-Carbon as of this November 2009 announcement.
HEP PAC has only two other donors, Joan Block, who established the PAC, and Philip Mohan, COO of Immunotope. Again, I’m sure it’s a coincidence, but Murphy trumpeted a $300,000 grant he got for Immunotope in 2007.
Although HEP PAC states in its organizational filing that it “supports/opposes more than one Federal candidate, and is NOT a separate segregated fund or party committee,” according to OpenSecrets the sole recipient of HEP PAC money since it was established has been Patrick Murphy.
Now Y-Carbon is getting $150,000 in free and clear tax dollars – a grant – to create Bucks County jobs designed to fight Global Warming. The company already got almost $150,000 to do the same in Montgomery County.
It’s all good though, right? After all, this is the “most ethical Congress in history.” What’s $600,000 of your hard-earned money in government grants, anyway? You’ve got plenty, haven’t you?
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