There are only 18 Congressional Districts in Ohio, and this time www.recovery.gov agrees. The most recent state/territory summary page for Ohio lists information for all 18 districts as well as “unassigned congressional district(s).”
Earlier this week, the website, which has an $84 million budget, listed 10 additional congressional districts in Ohio that received federal stimulus money: 00, 20, 21, 99, 69, 87, 85, 49, 54, 56. According to the site these 10 phantom districts created 11 jobs costing a total of more than $5.3 million. Those 11 jobs are now listed in the “unassigned congressional district” column.
After national media pressure, the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board began purging www.recovery.org by reassigning the 440 phantom congressional districts nationwide to “unassigned congressional district” columns or correcting the data. The senior White House appointee overseeing the stimulus transparency website dismisses the errors; the problems, “are relatively few and don’t change the fundamental conclusions one can draw from the data,” G. Edward DeSeve said.
[...] received stimulus money. After much media scrutiny the most recent state/territory summary for Ohio lists the correct number of congressional districts in Ohio, 18, and a category named “unassigned [...]