Report: Communities used federal stimulus money to lobby for higher taxes
Fraud, waste, and abuse of government money…SAY IT AIN’T SO!!!!!
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“In one example, California’s Santa Clara County Public Health Department allegedly used taxpayer money to hire a tobacco-retail-license coordinator to lobby for a workplace smoking ordinance and also used program funds to support a state-wide tobacco tax increase.
“In the South Carolina case, the CDC found the state violated rules by using program money to plan a press conference to lobby a city council to support a pending, clean-indoor-air ordinance with no exemptions.”
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