Ypsi: Stimulus Funds

On the Trusty Getto blog, Cameron Getto posts an open letter to Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn, who cited the $500,000 in stimulus funds earmarked for Ypsilanti’s Freighthouse renovation as one of the 100 worst projects being funded. Getto writes: “Those of us here in Ypsilanti who pay our taxes and love our Freighthouse deserve better. You owe everyone in my community an apology, sir. If you are the ‘watchdog’ you claim to be, and if you take your elected position seriously, you will re-check the basis for every single criticism in your report and issue a correction for every error you find. Moreover, you will remove the Ypsilanti Freighthouse from your list, and you will admit that the project is not the least bit wasteful, but a worthy civic project that stands to benefit my community in ways that you clearly will never understand.” [Source]