Ponitz graduation 2012
Cars and Parts Swap Meet
2012 senior class photos
Home > Blogs > Ohio politics > Archives > 2010 > August > 30
Monday, August 30, 2010
U.S. Chamber of Commerce endorses Portman; Fisher campaign blasts “outsourcing” partners
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Monday, Aug. 30, endorsed Republican Rob Portman in Ohio’s U.S. Senate race.
The chamber already is running a TV ad backing Portman.
At a press conference at the TriTex Corporation in Columbus, Bill Miller, the chamber’s senior vice president and political director,said the choice was between Portman, a “true champion of the business community and job creators like the good people here are TriTex” and Democrat Lee Fisher, who is supported by labor unions.
Unions, Miller said, “have opposed opening up and increasing the ability of companies like TriTex to expand their workers.”
Tom Pfaffenbach, TriTex founder, said that Portman “is working hard to redirect our country from socialism to free enterprise.” The company focuses of upholstering and refurbushing for the automotive, aircraft and commercial markets.
Portman said that he was “very appreciative” of the endorsement. He declined to answer specifically when asked if the U.S. had gone socialist, but said he opposed programs like the federal stimulus and the national health care plan.
All policies must be looked at “through the prism of jobs,” he said.
Holly Shulman, Fisher’s campaign spokeswoman, in a press release tagged the chamber as Portman’s “outsourcing partner” for pushing policies that ship Ohio and U.S. jobs overseas.
Permalink | Comments (2) | Post your comment |
TweetInvacare “disappointed” by Strickland campaign “attack” ad
Invacare, the Elyria-based home medical and long-term care product company, is “very disappointed” with a TV ad from Gov. Ted Strickland’s campaign that features the wife of a worker laid off from Invacare.
John Kasich, Strickland’s Republican opponent, sits on Invacare’s board of directors.
In the ad, Nilda Ramos says Kasich “signed off on jobs being outsourced and sent to China and Mexico. I believe they sent those jobs overseas to make profits.”
The company responded:
“On behalf of Invacare Corporation’s 1,300 associates in northeast Ohio and 6,200 associates worldwide, the company is very disappointed that its home-state governor would attack it in a campaign commercial.”
Lis Smith, Strickland campaign spokesman, said in an e-mail that the ad is expected to begin running Monday, Aug. 30. She said it was “not an ad about Invacare. It’s an ad about Kasich’s priorities and judgment. In Congress and on the board of Invacare, he supported outsourcing Ohio jobs.”
However, Rob Nichols, Kasich’s campaign spokesman, said in an e-mail that the “thought that Ted Strickland would even consider a strategy of attacking an Ohio-based company - and Lorain County’s largest corporate employer - for his political gain is just more proof that he doesn’t know how to work with businesses to create jobs…”
Here’s the ad:
Permalink | Comments (22) | Post your comment |
TweetJohn Glenn raising money for Strickland
It’s always nice to have a national hero on your side and for years former Ohio Sen. John Glenn has provided that support for fellow Ohio Democrats.
Glenn, the former Marine fighter pilot and space hero, is helping raise money for Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland’s re-election campaign.
In a fund-raising letter released on Monday, Aug. 30, Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, compared the challenges he faced with those faced by Strickland:
“I served my country and my state for a long time.
“But in all my years of service, I never saw economic challenges like those Gov. Ted Strickland is facing today.”
Glenn, a four-term U.S. senator, also compared his upbringing in New Concord with Strickland’s boyhood in Duck Run.
“We’re both lucky enough to be raised in rural Ohio, a part of our state that has seen its share of tough times.”
Then Glenn asked for contributions of $25, $50, $100 or more.
Strickland is running against Republican John Kasich, the former Columbus-area U.S. House member.
Permalink | Comments (2) | Post your comment |
Tweet
