McCain Promises To Help Ohio Residents Who Lost Their Jobs Because Of His Campaign Manager
McCain Promises To Help Ohio Residents Who Lost Their Jobs Because Of His Campaign Manager
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”:
MCCAIN:This is a terrible blow. Um, if there’s an anti-trust implication that’s associated with this, I certainly would seek a thorough investigation … I’ve got to look you in the eye and give you some straight talk; I don’t know if I can stop it or not. Or if it will be stopped it. … In fact, some more straight talk: I doubt it. Ok?
“In the meantime, there are manufacturing jobs that have been lost all over the state of Ohio, and it’s been a terrible trauma,” he said. Watch it:
Today, McCain is dealing with the fallout from the merger. But five years ago, McCain’s campaign manager lobbied heavily for the deal. The AP reports that Davis “lobbied the Senate to accept the proposal by DHL to buy Airborne Express for $1.05 billion.” Davis’s lobbying firm reaped the benefits:
Filings in the Senate show Davis’ lobbying firm, Davis Manafort, was hired to help both companies deal with Congress, where objections over DHL’s foreign ownership arose. Davis and a partner earned their firm $185,000 for the DHL-Airborne Express work that year, records show.
“McCain took steps that helped Davis’s clients” and thwarted Sen. Ted Stevens’s (R-AK) “effort to insert language into legislation that would prohibit foreign-controlled companies such as DHL from holding certain military contracts,” the Washington Post reported in June.
Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH) called the situation “one of the worst job catastrophes that any community in this nation is facing.” Will McCain deliver straight talk about the role that he and his campaign manager had in helping shuttle through the DHL deal?
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d’oh! insert foot in mouth in 3… 2… 1…. gulp!
August 7th, 2008 at 1:36 pmWill McCain deliver straight talk about the role that he and his campaign manager had in helping shuttle through the DHL deal?
I’m gonna have to give you a little straight talk here………………….NO!!!
RIP
August 7th, 2008 at 1:41 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
McPutz was for the merger before he was against it.
FLIP-FLOP, FLIP-FLOP, FLIP-FLOP……………….
August 7th, 2008 at 1:41 pmMaybe McCain will give them all jobs working for his campaign.
August 7th, 2008 at 1:45 pmOhio did not listen the last time and they went ahead and voted in Bush. They will probably do the same again..so in my book they get what they deserved. How stupid are you to turn around and do the same thing again.
Anybody that votes republican is nuts….
August 7th, 2008 at 1:47 pmWow! What a Maverick! McCain went against members of his own party to help a foreign company eliminate thousands of American jobs!
August 7th, 2008 at 1:50 pm“DISHPICKLEABLE”… either Daffy Duck or Sylvester the cat.
Both make great cartoon representation of McNumbNuts!
August 7th, 2008 at 1:59 pmMan, how bad is legislation when even Ted Stevens is against it?
Or was it just because Stevens wasn’t allowed to dip his beak the same way McSame was?
August 7th, 2008 at 1:59 pmAs Paris Hilton notes…is that the old white haired guy?
Let’s hope he doesn’t demand topless debates. For his own good.
August 7th, 2008 at 2:02 pmWhat an INTERESTING question:
Will McCain deliver straight talk about the role that he and his campaign manager had in helping shuttle through the DHL deal?
Answer: Are you fffukkking CRAZY! Of Course NOT!…They’ll blame it on BHO’s energy plan…
August 7th, 2008 at 2:04 pmHang this hide on the door, and make sure McIIIrd’s nose gets rubbed in it at every stop. Especially during the debates. Obama needs to make him admit his ‘aides’ set this up, and take responsibility for it…
August 7th, 2008 at 2:08 pmIt’s pretty clear to greg palast and to anyone else with half the functioning brains cells of a sea-cucumber that Ohio was just picked clean last time. If there were votes cast, the count of those votes was irrelevant. The Fix was in.
It is in again, this year, though maybe not in so prominent a place as Ohie. This year, mebbe it’s new mexico…
But have no fear: The Fix Is In
August 7th, 2008 at 2:10 pmMcCain :
August 7th, 2008 at 2:11 pm“Now you have a choice between Airborne Express and my Straight Talk Express…”.!
Well, the people in Ohio are in a world of hurt. They want to work, but we keep getting sold out. No McCain fan here.
August 7th, 2008 at 2:12 pmTranslation: You’re screwed, blued, and tattooed, but… you should vote for me anyway.
August 7th, 2008 at 2:20 pmStraight-Talk Express! Right up the old wahzoo.
August 7th, 2008 at 2:40 pmHey dennis, did you actually read the post? Not only was his campaing manager involved in this (just like several of them are with Big Oil) but Johnny Boy lobbied Ted ‘Indicted” Stevens to help out as well.
And that is OK by you, huh?
I also bet you don’t live in Ohio.
August 7th, 2008 at 2:58 pmobamagr8 Says:
How did Obama vote on this issue?
The Illinois State Senate didn’t vote on this issue.
Looks like another malfunctioning trollbot. You guys at the RNC need to institute a regular maintenance schedule for your bots.
August 7th, 2008 at 3:00 pmanother great ad opportunity presents itself. they could make it today and start running it in ohio this weekend.
will they do it? of course not.
August 7th, 2008 at 3:04 pmIf Rick Davis had his way, his friends would talke ALL of the money and force the rest of us to live live troglodytes.
August 7th, 2008 at 3:04 pmThe fact that JM has let Davis run his campaign says it all.
At the end of the day, what are you going to believe? What someone says, or what they have done?
dennis Says:
The degrees of separation are so great here as to render the association and blame on John McCain as absurd.
Let’s see. McCain pushes through legislation which helps a foreign company buy an American company. The foreign company closes down the hub and lays off all of the American employees.
You must really suck at that Kevin Bacon game.
August 7th, 2008 at 3:05 pmGrandpappy McSame: Program with empty promises. Now, he “promise” Ohio with their job lost. This is the joke of the day. His only solemn promise that McCain will make is a bigger purse for Cindy and expansion of his allowance money that Cindy provides for him.
August 7th, 2008 at 3:07 pmHow did Obama vote on this issue?
Like, do your own homework, pecker-head, mmmkay????
August 7th, 2008 at 3:16 pmDon’t forget the Keating 5.
McCain’s fingerprints are all over the fallout from the S&L scam.
August 7th, 2008 at 3:33 pmWe just put up ringtone-ready audio from this event over on Entertonement.
August 7th, 2008 at 4:46 pm