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McCain Promises To Help Ohio Residents Who Lost Their Jobs Because Of His Campaign Manager
Think Progress —
Today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is in Wilmington, OH and being forced to address DHL’s merger with Airborne-Express, which may cost roughly 8,000 jobs in the area. In a private meeting, “residents will ask McCain for help in stopping DHL’s proposal to quit using the airport as a hub,” which would put the air park out of business.
In a townhall on July 9, a resident asked McCain what he would do to mitigate the merger’s effects on the area. “I want to be able to keep our nonprofits alive,” she said, crying. McCain said the impact of the merger on area jobs is a “terrible blow”: ...
Hullabaloo — The Wilmington Factor by dday Yesterday Digby mentioned that John McCain's campaign has a plan to visit a lot of grocery stores and paint Obama as a "job-killing machine" to even out the economic gap between the two. It may just work. Since the media largely stays out of policy fights, the facts of the issue, that McCain will continue Bush's war on the middle class and Obama won't, will be obscured, and McCain telling shoppers how to stretch their dollar could make him appear to be in touch with ordinary Americans' struggles. But there is a way to combat this, with a very powerful and straight-forward narrative, a ...
McCain’s DHL problem may cost him Ohio
Political Animal —
One month ago today, John McCain hosted a town-hall event in Ohio, when Mary Houghtaling, who runs a hospice in Wilmington, choked up in describing the devastating job losses associated with DHL’s plans to close its domestic air hub in her town. McCain said he’d been “briefed” on the situation, which he described as “a terrible blow.”
Responding directly to Houghtaling, a McCain supporter, the presumptive Republican nominee added, “But I’ve gotta look you in the eye and give you straight talk. I don’t know if I can stop it or not, or if it will be stopped. So I have to tell you that. ...
