The Obama campaign released a radio ad in Ohio today tying John McCain to the closing of a Wilmington, Ohio shipping operation that will reportedly cost more than 8,000 jobs in the southwestern portion of the state. McCain was in Ohio this week, when a Cleveland Plain Dealer report linked McCain and campaign manager Rick Davis to a business deal that ultimately led to the ensuing job losses.
The Plain Dealer article stated that in 2003, Davis lobbied the Senate to allow DHL Express, a foreign company, to buy out Airborne Express, which ran operations at the Wilmington airport. As chairman of the Senate commerce committee, McCain helped get the bill passed.
"This was probably the most important development of the campaign this week," David Plouffe, Obama's campaign manager, said on an afternoon conference call. Plouffe added, and the radio ad also notes this, that McCain had been in the area a month earlier and hadn't mentioned the connection. "That's why we think this is important. It's the furthest thing from straight talk you can imagine."
Listen to the ad here
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