This could be a little awkward. Former Rep. Pat Toomey, the leading Republican candidate for Senate, is ripping the Obama administration’s economic stimulus policies this morning in a pre-buttal press conference at Computer Aid, a business in Allentown.

It’s a good move to get the GOP message out there, as Obama is coming to the Lehigh Valley tomorrow to talk about the economy. But…The Philadelphia Tribune newspaper reports that the firm participated last month in a conference for minority and women-owned businesses to, among other things, get deets on how to take advantage of federal broadband-Internet stimulus funds.

To be sure, the government’s website tracking stimulus dollars, www.recovery.org, does not indicate Computer Aid got any money from the feds. Still….

Read the Inquirer post here

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