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Power of 100?

Here at the N&R, we're committed to making sure that what you hear from candidates is accurate. So here's the next in a series of occasional fact-checking that we'll do when we hear candidates making claims on the campaign trail.

We've been talking with Jim Kee, the District 2 City Council candidate, on the claims he's made of creating more than 100 jobs in his district.

"We’ve create over 100 jobs," Kee often says of his company, Kee Development.

So we figured that we'd ask just what, exactly, he means by creatign 100 jobs.

"I have two employees," Kee said of those who he directly employs. "Most of my employees are subcontractors."

Kee is a developer, so he hires companies to help build a home or otherwise. In that way, he helps pay for those jobs. Kee said that he counts the subcontractors that he's hired through the years as jobs he's contributed.

"I subcontract my work," he said, "and one of the main reasons is the health care."

Most any business owner would tell you that paying for insurance is expensive. So are worker's compensation claims, which often occur in contracting.

Kee said that he had a crew of four workers recently finish a deck addition.

"There are various people doing  various things," he said. Kee also told us that he hasn't built a home in eight months.

"We're looking to build 100 townhouses and another 10 houses," he said, but said the economy has made times tough for business lately.