As Tom Emmer was setting up at Permac Industries in Burnsville to announce the first part of its budget plan, the Minnesota DFL party’s Twitter account announced…:
Spoiler Alert: Tom Emmer to Hold Press Conference at Company Saved by the Recovery Act Funding He Opposes http://ht.ly/2A8QT #goDFL
This prompted other DFLers to crow that Permac had been “saved” by the stimulus, or “expanded” because of it. They harped, naturally, on the irony; Emmer opposes the measures that, they said, kept Permac in business.
Wow. That woulda been a fumble.
Except it’s not true.
Permac has received not one nickel of cash from the stimulus.
Two sources with knowledge of the situation confirmed that Permac hired a worker who’d gone through a Dakota County training program that had received stimulus money to help train the unempoyed. The hiree was an unemployed worker.
Permac also got a tax break from the Bush Administration stimulus. Which, if you’ve been paying attention, is exactly the sort of “stimulus” Emmer proposed at the press conference fifteen minutes later.
Why is the DFL lying to the people?
UPDATE: It wasn’t just leftyblogger Sally Jo Sorenson who claimed the tax break and the county-trained worker “saved” Permac. The DFL’s press release said so.
I’m working on contacting a Permac source to address this gross DFL distortion.
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