8,000 MORE OHIO JOBS GONE

JOHN McCAIN HELPED MAKE IT HAPPEN. WILL HE FIX IT?

“I don’t think I can stop it….I doubt it.”
—John McCain at a town hall in Portsmouth, Ohio, 7/9/08

John McCain and his campaign manager helped German-owned DHL take over Airborne Express in Wilmington. John McCain guided the merger of German-owned DHL with American-owned Airborne Express through Congress in 2003, giving a foreign company ownership of a U.S. cargo transport company. His campaign manager, Rick Davis, made $185,000 lobbying for the deal and another $405,000 after the deal was passed.

Now DHL wants to move, taking more than 8,000 Wilmington jobs with it. DHL plans to stop using the Wilmington Airport as its cargo hub, putting more than 8,000 jobs at risk. Wilmington is a town of 12,000; losing so many jobs will devastate this Ohio community.

(Sources: Time Magazine, 8/7/08; Cleveland Plain Dealer, 8/6/08; Dayton Daily News, 8/7/08; U.S. Senate Lobbying Disclosure)