Sunday, February 15, 2009

Which states did best in the Porkulus spending extravaganza?


Courtesy of Papa B, here's the list rank-ordered by number of boondoggles projects.

I guess Robert Byrd dozed off during the proceedings: West Virginia got only a single project.

California (1971 projects)
Texas (1240 projects)
Illinois (1031 projects)
Arizona (743 projects)
Florida (1752 projects)
Ohio (847 projects)
Michigan (782 projects)
Indiana (713 projects)
Mississippi (552 projects)
Kentucky (524 projects)
Connecticut (449 projects)
Louisiana (433 projects)
Missouri (403 projects)
Virginia (400 projects)
Washington (368 projects)
Wisconsin (358 projects)
Pennsylvania (352 projects)
Idaho (348 projects)
Puerto Rico (340 projects)
Minnesota (335 projects)
North Carolina (319 projects)
Alabama (318 projects)
Hawaii (316 projects)
Utah (298 projects)
New York (289 projects)
South Carolina (271 projects)
Georgia (266 projects)
Massachusetts (266 projects)
New Jersey (261 projects)
Oklahoma (223 projects)
New Mexico (215 projects)
Colorado (201 projects)
Arkansas (199 projects)
Nevada (163 projects)
Oregon (159 projects)
Nebraska (154 projects)
Kansas (139 projects)
Rhode Island (116 projects)
Tennessee (103 projects)
Wyoming (85 projects)
Maine (72 projects)
North Dakota (61 projects)
Vermont (61 projects)
Montana (57 projects)
Maryland (54 projects)
Iowa (51 projects)
Alaska (46 projects)
South Dakota (30 projects)
Washington, D.C. (8 projects)
Delaware (7 projects)
West Virginia (1 projects)
New Hampshire (0 projects)

Data courtesy of StimulusWatch.org.

Update: Commenter Dave asks "Where's New Hampshire? Punished for Judd Gregg?" The answer is zero. The table was updated accordingly.

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