Sunlight Foundation

Earmarks help benefactors' re-election bids

Publication: Springfield News

Jonathan Riskind
June 8, 2008

WASHINGTON — When TPI Composites showed off the new armored vehicle it helped build at its growing Ohio factory in Springfield last year, company officials invited U.S. Rep. David L. Hobson as a special guest, hailing his crucial support for using the company's material in a lightweight Humvee for the Army.