Lawmakers consider job accountability law.

[JTFrog]

There is more fallout from an Eyewitness News investigation into Indiana's inflated job numbers. The speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives plans to fight for a new law to prevent state government from issuing "bogus" job statistics. Critics say they are prepared to fight back.

Earlier this year, the Indiana Economic Development Corporation boasted it had helped secure more than 100,000 new jobs for Hoosiers.


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This spring, WTHR exposed abandoned factories and empty cornfields where IEDC claimed tens of thousands of Hoosiers are supposed to be working. The Eyewitness News investigation showed the state's economic development agency has been inflating job numbers by promoting jobs commitments that never came. Approximately 40,000 jobs promoted by the state have not materialized years after they were announced.

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But the assembly's most powerful Democrat says, historically, Republicans in the state senate have blocked efforts to mandate more corporate accountability.

"We send it over to the senate, it's either diluted or killed," said Bauer, shrugging his shoulders.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38781091/ns/local_news-indianapolis_in/

[LiberalFighter]

1. If this and other issues are brought up on a regular basis

we stand a chance of getting control of the Senate too. Then and only then do we have a chance of accountability in Indiana.

[ls317]

2. Mitch Daniels at work

Padding job numbers and we are surprised why??