Bush Campaign Gear Made by Slave Labor

Bush Campaign Gear Made by Slave Labor
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/032004A.shtml

His campaign store sells a pullover from nation whose products he has banned from being sold in the U.S.

 The official merchandise Web site for President George W. Bush's re-election campaign has sold clothing made in Burma, whose goods were banned by Bush from the U.S. last year to punish its military dictatorship.
 
 The merchandise sold on www.georgewbushstore.com includes a $49.95 fleece pullover, embroidered with the Bush-Cheney '04 logo and bearing a label stating it was made in Burma, now Myanmar. The jacket was sent to Newsday as part of an order that included a shirt made in Mexico and a hat not bearing a country-of-origin label.
     
The Bush merchandise is handled by Spalding Group, a 20-year-old supplier of campaign products and services in Louisville, Ky., that says it worked for the last five Republican presidential nominees.
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on the Overview:

http://www.truthout.org/overview.htm

:)

appropriate quips indeed...

nice overview BTW :toast:

....no doubt part of their outsourcing that feeds the new economy! It is rather pathetic that even their campaign gear isn't made by American Workers. Anyone else see the irony in that? Actually its blatant nose thumbing rather than irony.

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash2.htm

LETTER TO CAMPAIGN FROM MERCHANDISE SUPPLIER
Fri Mar 19 2004 13:26:53 ET

Mr. Tom Josefiak
General Counsel
Bush Cheney '04 Inc.

Dear Mr. Josefiak:

I am writing to apologize and accept responsibility for the recent distribution of foreign goods in our Bush Cheney '04 merchandise program. We take great pride in providing this service to your campaign, and at your request have worked with our vendors to distribute goods that have been made in America.

Unfortunately, in one of our recent shipments, a vendor inadvertently supplied us with foreign goods, and our own company did not discover this mistake before distribution to the public. The purchase orders for these items included a statement specifying "Made in USA products." (See attached document). We received an acknowledgement from our supplier substantiating that it was their factory mistake. (See attached document).

We have already reviewed our entire stock of items and have pulled from inventory all foreign products. Of the 60 fleece jackets in stock, only two were from Burma. According to best estimates by our supplier, less than a total of ten items from Burma were shipped to the public. We have taken corrective action to assure this will never happen again. We are a small company employing 40 workers and take pride in the professional services provided by our hard-working American families.

Please accept my sincere apologies for this error and let me assure you that all necessary steps have been taken to guarantee that all future shipments will contain only American made products.

Sincerely,

Ted Jackson
President, Spalding Group

So, methinks they are saying (?) that some jackets are made in the USA, others are made in Burma and one – ONE – a SINGLE jacket made in Burma got into their stock and was sent to the buyer by mistake.

So are they saying the jackets made in the USA and the jackets made in Burma are all sent to the Colorado Trading and Clothing company who sells the jackets to Spalding? And the Colorado Trading and Clothing Company made the mistake of sending ONE, just ONE, just ONE of the jackets made in Burma to Spalding?

And the honorable Republican company Spalding actually does business with a company that does business with Burma-Myanmar who uses slave labor?

And Spalding had the horrible luck of selling one jacket made in Burma to someone in the news media who happened to know the U.S. policy of trade with Burma- Myanmar.

How convenient-inconvenient for the B-C campaign. I can't wait to hear how the little white haired ladies who listen to Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell and Limbaugh and Hannity are taught to spin this.

That quality control person should be hung - embarassing Republicans like that.

There is a saying in the U.S. written in granite somewhere - REPUBLICANS NEVER MAKE MISTAKES OR BREAK LAWS to make a buck.