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Posted at: 11/13/2009 7:00 PM Where the Stimulus is Going(ABC 6 NEWS) -- Congressmen Tim Walz made a stop in Albert Lea at one of the stimulus projects to see how the money is working in Southern Minnesota. Crews are working on a runway expansion at Albert Lea Airport, one of several stimulus projects in our area. Today Congressman Tim Walz visited the site to see how those stimulus dollars are being used. "Infrastructure that's an investment that has always been a long term return on the money," said Congressmen Tim Walz. The runway expansion has already created thirty-two construction jobs for Ulland Brothers. "If they weren't working for us with the lack of projects in the other areas they'd probably be on unemployment," said Vice President of Ulland Brothers Jeff Carlson. In the long term, the expansion will also help POET land corporate jets in Albert Lea. "To keep our teams moving efficiently and to go to and from the plants on a daily basis these rural airports are critical to us," said Craig Ludtke from POET. Although some republicans agree the airport expansion is an appropriate stimulus project... some are concerned about stimulus spending across the board. "Our country is spending itself into obscurity and we are spending 1.4 tillion more then we are bringing in revenues," said Republican Senate Minority Leader Dave Senjem. Senate Minority Leader Dave Senjem says future generations will have to shoulder that burden. Also he wants to make sure projects warrant taxpayer money. "What we need to be able to do is to prove to them when they say that where their dollars are going to make a difference, and this airport, i can tell you and your heard it from poet talk about it, without this airport these jobs wouldn't be here," said Walz. Of the two and half billion dollars of stimulus that has come to the state, close to 29 million of that is going to Olmstead county, close to 11 million to Mower, and thirteen million in Freeborn.
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