As Republican presidential candidate John McCain wraps up a trip to Colombia and Mexico, labor leaders and Democrats in Dayton and two other Ohio cities plan press conferences on Thursday, July 3, to protest McCain’s support for NAFTA and other trade agreements.
The Dayton “Gone to Mexico” - as in jobs gone to Mexico - event is set for 11 a.m. at the main entrance off the former Delphi brake plant, located off of Wagner Ford Road, a press release said.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain is headed back to Ohio and this time he’ll be in Ted Strickland country.
McCain will hold a town hall meeting on Wednesday, July 9, in Portsmouth in southern Ohio near Democratic Gov. Strickland’s former home in Duck Run, McCain’s campaign announced on Wednesday, July 2.
Doors open at 1 p.m. in the Portsmouth High School gym, the campaign said.
McCain was in Ohio last week for town hall meetings in Cincinnati and Lordstown and two fundraisers. Democrat Barack Obama campaigned on Tuesday, July 1, in Zanesville.
Frances Strickland (in photo), Ohio’s first lady, is coming to the Dayton area to raise money for Jane Mitakides.
Mitakides is running for the 3rd congressional seat against Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Turner. The fundraiser is Monday, July 7 at 5:30 p.m. at a private home in Oakwood.
Tickets are $250, $500 and $1,000
Democrat Barack Obama says that as president he’ll establish a Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships to promote “bottom-up” help for the needy.
Obama made the proposal in remarks prepared for delivery Tuesday, July 1, in Zanesville where he’s to campaign for president at the East Side Community Ministry, which provides food, clothing and other assistance for those in need.
Ohio’s U.S. House delegation has sent letters to two congressional committees urging hearings on a proposal to consolidate DHL’s North American shipping operations into UPS, a decision that would cost the Wilmington region some 8,000 jobs.
The delegation, led by Rep. Mike Turner, R-Centerville, sent letters to the chairmen and Ranking Members of the House Judiciary Committee and the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure asking for each committee to hold hearings on the proposed deal.
The letter to Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers and Ranking Member Lamar Smith asks the committee to investigate the deal to see if it violates federal antitrust law. It was signed by every member of the Ohio House delegation except Rep. Betty Sutton, D-Copley Twp., who declined because she is a member of that committee.
The letter to Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman James Oberstar and Ranking Member John Mica urges their committee to examine the impact the deal would have on the North American shipping market and implications on American consumers. It’s signed by the entire Ohio House delegation.
Ohio Democrats’ two favorite sons of Appalachia - Gov. Ted Strickland and former U.S. Sen. John Glenn - won’t be with Barack Obama when Obama brings his presidential campaign to that region of the state on Tuesday, July 1.
Obama is scheduled to be at the Eastside Community Ministry in Zanesville in Muskingum County.
Strickland, from Duck Run in Scioto County, is in Florida raising money for his own governor’s campaign and the Ohio Democratic Party from Monday, June 30, through Wednesday, July 2, returning to the state on Thursday, July 3, said Alex Goepfert, spokesman for the Ohio Democratic Party.
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