Three of Orange County’s congressmen have attacked the federal stimulus program, but have also sought a share of the $800 billion in spending, according to this investigation by California Watch and the Center for Public Integrity.

Reps. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Costa Mesa, Ken Calvert, R-Corona, and Gary Miller, R-Diamond Bar, have all written letters seeking stimulus funding for transportation projects while publicly decrying the program, saying it will not generate new jobs. The investigation found other representatives statewide and nationwide in the same boat.

On the other hand, would you rather have them bringing money back to Southern California or not?

According to California Watch:

Rohrabacher, an Orange County Republican, argued in a letter that high unemployment rates around Long Beach should help justify the funding of an emissions reduction program at California State University, Long Beach. “I am keenly aware of the critical need for economic stimulus in the City of Long Beach where the July 2009 unemployment rate was 13.7% compared to the national rate of 9.7%,” Rohrabacher wrote last September in a letter to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. But five months later, Rohrabacher posted a statement assailing the stimulus as a “boondoggle,” and writing that “334,000 Americans, just in the past year, have been desperately looking for work but have given up, no thanks to the stimulus.” His spokeswoman did not return calls and e-mails requesting comment.

Click on the lawmakers name to see the letter he wrote seeking stimulus money: Rohrabacher. Calvert. Miller.

Only Miller sought money for an Orange County project. The other two sought money for projects elsewhere in their districts.

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