Vice President Joe Biden was in Ohio Monday to raise campaign money, and to tout the work being done across the state with federal stimulus dollars. Biden stopped at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport to praise the 17-million dollar taxi-way expansion, which he says has many benefits.
The project started earlier this month and employs 200 construction workers. It'll be finished in the middle of next year. Biden says this Ohio project and other's funded by federal stimulus dollars have saved and created thousands of jobs. But Ohio Republican Party Chairman Kevin DeWine says the stimulus money is not helping the struggling economy. He says 115-thousand Ohioans have lost jobs since Biden and President Obama took office. Biden also spent time in Cleveland raising money for Tuscarawas County Congressman Zack Space and Congressman John Bocccieri of Stark County. Earlier in the day, he was in Columbus, raising money for Congresswoman Mary Jo Kilroy.