Richard Mourdock Slams Stimulus, Gets Endorsed At Company That Got Stimulus Money

Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock -- a vehement opponent of President Barack Obama's stimulus act -- could have probably picked a better backdrop to accept an endorsement Thursday.

Mourdock, the state treasurer, chose to accept the nod from the National Federal of Independent Businesses at a firm called Quality Environmental Professionals, Inc. At first glance, this is a slick political move, since QEP is a women-owned firm in a year when the GOP is fighting a considerable gender gap.

However, the firm was also a beneficiary of stimulus cash worth more than $1.6 million.

Just days before visiting the company, Mourdock criticized the stimulus act. “President Obama’s ‘stimulus' plan and other big government policies like Obamacare -– a massive tax on Americans -- have not spurred long-term economic growth and have pushed our national debt to over $15 trillion."

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Comments

[CSKAP]

10:28 AM on 07/13/2012

Well, to be fair, as long as he demands that the company immediately refund every dollar they received in Tax payer funded (with corresponding interest of course) regardless of the impact on the company I think it will be just fine.
Just like all the clowns that excoriate the Presidents stimulus plan then show up with the giant Federal checks at local companies proclaiming what “they” did to help the company.

[StillAmused]

09:15 AM on 07/13/2012

Look at this frèak.

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That's all... just LOOK at him.

[MaybeMilo]

08:49 AM on 07/13/2012

Doh!

[neanderthal2012]

08:44 AM on 07/13/2012

I hate to be "that guy", but we should get the facts straight. CH2M Hill received the $1.6 million in stimulus money. QEP was a subcontracted firm that received a very small fraction for a very small portion of the work. Its a government contract so this info is out there. I hate giving republicans ammo that WE are twisting the facts. Yes, it's splitting hairs, but we lose credibility when we do things like this.

[Ulalume s Ague]

08:50 AM on 07/13/2012

No-- QEP benefitted from the stimulus--a benefit that kept peopel in their jobs and probably hired some, too. This directly contradicts Mourdocks claim that the stimulus was a waste. That he so utterly lacks any principles, as also QEP must surely be guilty of, is evident in that he didn't seek out a company who DID NOT receive any benefit from the stimulus package that he so publicly excoriates. Your splitting of hairs is disingenuous at best.

[neanderthal2012]

09:40 AM on 07/13/2012

Not disputing the benefit, only the amount they received. The article attributes the entire $1.6 million to QEP which is not correct. They were an insignificant subcontractor with a tiny scope of work. Yes they benefitted, but not to the exent implied. We don't need to artificially inflate numbers to bolster this argument.

[madHenry]

08:17 AM on 07/13/2012

Irony...lost on the clueless.

[Kalikat]

07:45 AM on 07/13/2012

What do you expect, corporations love republicans. And the more conterversial the better it seems.

[calypso54]

07:01 AM on 07/13/2012

Who's stupider -- Mourdock or the company that got stimulus $$$ that worked (they're still in business) supporting this clown?

[dwnthalane]

05:23 AM on 07/13/2012

republicans caught being hypocritical isn't even a news story anymore. it just happens so often.

[DPAS2012]

02:28 AM on 07/13/2012

I'll be surprised if Indiana goes blue again in November. Where is that big red button when you need it?

[Micheal Anderson]

01:24 AM on 07/13/2012

Remember kids, it's only wrong when "they" do it.

[skjn62]

12:37 AM on 07/13/2012

I'm embarrased that he is from my state of Indiana. I hope and pray Joe Donnelly will win the senate seat over this train wreck.

[tector]

12:30 AM on 07/13/2012

there is, rightly so, a lot of contempt for mourdock here but have any of the critics sent any money for the campaign of his opponent joe donnelly? the koch/rove et al super pacs are loading up mourdock's coffers and donnelly is running behind in funds. i have sent him a few small donations even though i live elsewhere because the defeat of these baggers wherever possible is the business of all americans who oppose their philosophy no matter where they live.

i challenge you to back up your criticism with a few bucks and have indiana hopefully represented in the senate by a decent man.

joe donnelly 2012

[Jim Pasterczyk]

12:13 AM on 07/13/2012

That's the GOP, making the world safe for hypocrisy.

[AngelainIndiana]

11:57 PM on 07/12/2012

Yep.That seat will be blue for the first time in years!

[ZeraLee]

11:47 PM on 07/12/2012

It sounds like Quality Environmental Professionals, Inc. are the bigger hypocrites here. They are the ones who took the stimulus money then turned on the helping hand. The ingrates are just proving that there is no honor in capitalism. Or reminding us that corporate "persons" are soulless.

Mourdock is just being a typical republican opportunist.