That’s the message the state is trying to push, NPR reported Monday, in the wake of NASA budget proposals that would cut aeronautics funding and potentially hundreds of jobs at NASA Glenn. Area politicians are fighting the cuts, and one of them, Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora, thinks the state is due some respect from the White House because of the 2004 election: “We have got to remind the President that Ohio was the state that put him over the top.”
What, do they think Bush is going to run for a third term?
And what is this ‘put him over the top’ business? Every state that went to Bush did its part to ‘putting him over the top'; is Ohio to be especially commended because they have problems counting their votes quickly?
And do they think that the sole purpose of a space program is to create government jobs, and that the only important thing is where that happens?
They probably do.
“do they think that the sole purpose of a space program is to create government jobs”
That is the only interest that many politicians have in anything NASA related, IE “how many jobs can NASA create in my district and how I can take credit for it”.
This is rather rich. Cuyahoga County went overwhelmingly Kerry.
What do you expect from Ohio, the very same state that stole both North Carolina’s tourist motto (NC — “First in Flight” OH — “Birthplace of Aviation”) as well as the theme of their state quarter. Sorry, I am just a North Carolinian griping and complaining
I don’t recall any problems with the voting in Ohio. As for the jobs being lost, so what, NASA mission is to send humans to space not provide jobs on Earth..