Steve Cohen On Southern Governors Thinking Of Declining The Stimulus

By Kleinheider Posted on February 27, 2009 at 5:46 pm

The congressman’s words are not kind:

Not to take the funds, said Cohen, would be “wrong—socially, morally, and economically.” Drawing an implicit comparison to Southern officials of an earlier age, Cohen suggested that those Southern governors (few so far, and so far all Republican) who have declined to accept federal stimulus funds for the unemployed are acting in the tradition of “”Jim Crow,” in the mold of former separatist-minded officials like the late Alabama governor George Wallace.

Asked if he would so characterize Bredesen in the same light, should the Tennessee governor also turn down the unemployment funds, Cohen declined to do so, but he said, “It is odd that all of the governors who’ve turned down the money so far are Southerners. Southern governors aren’t the only ones who care about fiscal solvency.”

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