Timken Layoffs Potentially Devastating For Canton (plant was Bush prop)

Campaign Journal
by Ryan Lizza


McLellan aboard Air Force One:

Q About a year ago, April 24th, last year, the President
went to Canton, Ohio. He went to the Timken
Company. I don't know if you remember the trip, I
wasn't on it. He went to a bearings factory, part of the
Timken Company, touted his economic plans and talked
about jobs and growth. Timken announced today that
they're shutting down that plant that the President
visited a year ago. I just wonder if that's ironic, that the
President touted his economic strategy, doesn't appear
to be working?

posted 3:10 p.m.

http://www.tnr.com/blog/campaignjournal?pid=1657


The plant story:

Timken Layoffs Potentially Devastating For Canton

1,300 Jobs Predicted To Be Cut

POSTED: 10:30 am EDT May 16, 2004

CANTON, Ohio -- Timken is slashing a quarter of its employees in Canton, and as workers facing
layoffs consider their future, the ripple effect is already beginning.

"How can I afford to get married, afford a house payment, maybe kids, if I don't have a job?" said
Timken employee Shawn Higgins.

Timken is Canton's biggest employer, and it is reported that 1,300 jobs are to be cut. Former Mayor
Richard Watkins, who led the city for 12 years, knows how enormous the impact of such a
downsizing can be.

snip

Ironically, it was a little more than a year ago when President George W. Bush visited Timken's
world headquarters heralding his tax cut and job creation plan. Now this very company's job cuts
will be a major blow to the economy in Canton.

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(by way of Eschaton amd Counterspin)

when the Chimp appeared there.

"Bush economic in action" ... have Dumbya speech at the plant and then the aftermass