Kerry slams Bush choice for manufacturing czar

A Kerry campaign release said Raimondo, who is an outspoken advocate of international trade, laid off some of his workers in the United States and opened a plant in China.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/11/manufacturing/index.html

New Manufacturing “Czar”: 5 Months in the Making
http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/pr_2004_0310c.html


The guy goes down today. Advantage Kerry.

Its becoming comical how often Bush is getting slammed.

WASHINGTON - A Nebraska business executive has withdrawn from consideration to be President Bush’s point man on manufacturing amid Democratic charges he outsourced jobs to China. The controvercy arose Wednesday when Sen. John Kerry raised questions about Tony Raimondo's stance on shifting U.S. jobs to foreign countries.

The Bush administration said Raimondo’s withdrawal was related to Nebraska political issues and not the flap raised by the Kerry campaign. The administration had scheduled a news conference for Thursday to announce its selection for the job of assistant commerce secretary for manufacturing. Bush last September had announced the position to coordinate the administration’s efforts to bolster the country’s beleaguered manufacturing sector.

However, the planned news conference was scrapped after Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate, and other Democrats raised questions about Raimondo’s stance on shifting U.S. jobs to foreign countries, a hot political issue given the loss of 3 million manufacturing jobs since mid-2000.

“On the same day the Bush administration announced it was ready to name the head of the new office for manufacturing, the nominee couldn’t be reached because he was in China, where his company is building a new factory after laying off 75 workers in Columbus, Nebraska,” the Democratic National Committee said in a statement.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4509025/

This is getting good... exactly who is running the country, anyhow? My money's on Kerry...

Tony Raimondo, after being outed by John Kerry as a Benedict Arnold CEO who has a manufacturing plant in Red China, and also layed off 17% of his own work force, withdraws his name from consideration as Manufacturing Czar:

Breaking: Nebraska Businessman (Raimondo) Withdraws as Manufacturing Czar

Bush changes mind on 9/11 commission... agrees to answer without timeline:

Bush Might Be Questioned Longer by 9/11 Commission

without stepping on the sock he stuffed in his flight suit.