{"id":644865,"date":"2010-01-27T08:46:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T13:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001306"},"modified":"2010-01-26T23:42:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T04:42:19","slug":"ohio-spends-1-million-of-stimulus-money-to-tell-you-its-spending-stimulus-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/644865","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Spends $1 Million Of Stimulus Money To Tell You It&#8217;s Spending Stimulus Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/road-thumb-340x238-36385.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>At least Ohio isn&#8217;t sitting on its stimulus funds. State senator Tim Grendell is raising a stink that the state is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/US\/01\/25\/kaye.signs\/index.html?hpt=C1\">spending $1 million of stimulus money<\/a> simply advertising the fact that it&#8217;s spending funds on road projects, CNN reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some road projects have two signs, and some don&#8217;t have any at all, but the signs aren&#8217;t cheap.<\/p>\n<p>The bigger signs can cost as much as $3,000 each, according to Grendell, who says this is just a big &#8220;thank you&#8221; to the Obama Administration.<\/p>\n<p>He told CNN, &#8220;Send a fruit basket if you want to say &#8216;thank you.&#8217; Don&#8217;t waste a million dollars saying &#8216;thank&#8217; you to Washington for giving us back our tax money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Ohio sign industry must appreciate the gesture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/US\/01\/25\/kaye.signs\/index.html?hpt=C1\">Signs of waste? $1 million used to tout stimulus funds at work in Ohio<\/a> [CNN] <br \/>\n<i>(Thanks, Colette!)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least Ohio isn&#8217;t sitting on its stimulus funds. State senator Tim Grendell is raising a stink that the state is spending $1 million of stimulus money simply advertising the fact that it&#8217;s spending funds on road projects, CNN reports: Some road projects have two signs, and some don&#8217;t have any at all, but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2HL3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}