Professor Jason Johnson was quoted in the Philadelphia Tribune story “Ideologues stake their ground on economy.” Johnson discussed the role of government in job creation and its impact on the 2012 Republican presidential campaign.
“It’s an interesting dynamic that you have, watching all these Republican candidates who are anti-government, yet running for the highest office in the land,” observes Jason Johnson, a political science professor at Hiram College and author of the recent “Political Consultants and Campaigns: One Day to Sell.” “It fascinates me that these guys say government doesn’t create jobs, private sector creates jobs. Yet, they keep bragging about the number of jobs they created when they were governors. That makes no sense.”
