By Jueseppi B.
Posted: 07/16/2012 3:50 pm Updated: 07/16/2012 8:52 pm
WASHINGTON — The city council of Freeport, Ill., approved a resolution Monday evening that will call on presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to step in and save roughly 170 local jobs being outsourced by a company owned by Bain Capital.
Last year, Massachusetts-based Sensata Technologies announced that it was closing its Freeport plant by the end of 2012 and shipping the jobs to China. The U.S. positions, the company claimed, would be phased out gradually. Sensata Technologies makes sensors and controls that are used in aircraft and automobiles.
The resolution organized by Sensata employees calls on Romney – who co-founded Bain — to “come to Freeport to meet the people directly affected by Bain Capital’s outsourcing and to step in and stop the outsourcing of these jobs from Freeport to China.”
The city council voted unanimously, 8-0, on Monday to approve the Sensata resolution.
Romney maintains that he left Bain in 1999, even though multiple documents list him as having leadership roles with the company beyond that date.
Regardless of the date that he left, Tom Gaulrapp — a lifelong resident of Freeport and 33-year employee of Sensata — said that Romney still bears some responsibility.
“They used his business model,” Gaulrapp said. “And the board of directors and most of the officers at Bain Capital were put in place by him. There’s an ongoing debate over whether he actually left in 1999 or whether he filed wrong documents to the SEC. In either case, they’re still using his business model. He’s the one who taught them how to do this. These guys were put there by him. So you can say he doesn’t run the day-to-day operations, but he’s still at blame for the way they do business.”
Democratic Freeport Mayor George Gaulrapp (who is distantly related to Tom Gaulrapp) backs the Sensata resolution and predicts that it will pass unanimously before the city council on Monday evening.
“He [Romney] is running for president,” said the mayor. “These people felt it was a little hypocritical that he was with Bain Capital, he organized some of the processes, and now he’s touring the country … saying we need to keep jobs here in the United States. And yet for a long time, he made a lot of profits by tearing companies apart and sending them overseas.”
A Romney spokesperson reiterated that the governor left Bain in 1999, and said he has no knowledge of the Freeport controversy.
Rep. Bobby Schilling (R-Ill.) currently represents Freeport, and after redistricting goes into effect, the new congressman will be Rep. Don Manzullo (R-Ill.). Both lawmakers wrote to Sensata CEO Tom Wroe on July 6, urging him to keep the jobs in the U.S.
“I appreciate your comments regarding understanding the competitive pressure facing companies in today’s global marketplace and I assure you that we strive to balance our duty to our shareholders with our duty as corporate citizens, just as you strive to balance the interests of your local constituents with that which is best for our country,” responded Wroe. “Closing the Freeport facility is the right strategy for our business in order to deliver value to our shareholders and to support our global customers.”
Neither Schilling nor Manzullo responded to comment on the Freeport resolution involving Romney.
Tom Gaulrapp wouldn’t say who he was planning to vote for in the presidential election, although he said he’d certainly give Romney a close look if he steps in and saves Freeport’s jobs. As for what he will do when the Sensata plant closes, Gaulrapp, 54, said he may look at going back to school.
“The Trade Adjustment Act allows us to go back to college, but if there aren’t jobs available to use any kind of college education that you might be able to add to your resume, is there really a point to that?” asked Gaulrapp. “Like most of the people in my age group and in this situation, our future is just completely bleak.”
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“I think it is a distraction from the Obama campaign to distract from the huge issues, like the economy and jobs,” Jan Brewer told The Huffington Post.
If Romney were Hispanic, Brewer would demand to see his papers… ALL of them!
It IS about the economy and jobs, and how the “Job Creator” (in this economy) sent American jobs out of the country… Do you get it now, Jan!?! Well there you have it. Millions of jobs shipped overseas for the profit of a few, and now she’s upset because Mitt has been caught and gets a few tough questions…It’s a distraction. Gee Jan, I’m sorry our future prosperity that was gambled away and flushed has upset you against us, and thank you for standing up for us.
Distraction she says…Well isn’t that the pot calling the kettle black. Hey Jan, one word, “Birtherism”… Wanting to refuse to allow the current POTUS on the ticket in Arizona because his long form birth certificate from Hawaii doesn’t meet Brewer’s standards is so much more important than knowing whether a candidate was in charge of a company that outsourced tens of thousands of jobs and destroyed American companies. Right!?! Oh, the irony of it all…thinking this is a distraction but the Birther stuff isn’t! If it smells fishy, it may be a fish. Let’s show Romney some real respect. Does that entail shaking your finger in his face too?
So, let me get this straight. Asking for facts or proof is a distraction. Pretending the President is from another country and continually demanding that he present a birth certificate, despite him having done so, based on racism and an effort to try to delegitimize him is what, prudent and time worthy!?! It must be fun in their heads.
They have blatantly disrespected the President for four years now, and now they want him to call off his dogs. It’s called Karma! These very same people have fanned the flames about President Obama’s place of birth since he took office and to this day are still demanding to see his birth certificate. I guess openness only applies to President Obama.
Romney: “I will not show you my tax returns.”
Voters: “We will not show you the inside of the White House.”
From a personal perspective, Romney should stand accountable for perhaps his huge misdeeds like anyone else. The distraction is that he is not releasing the returns. Romney can end that distraction but in doing so he would pretty much eliminate his chances of ever becoming president. Those returns will be a treasure trove of what is wrong with the tax system. His tax returns will prove to America why we can no longer give these enormous tax breaks to the rich…because they’re NOT “Job Creators” and they’ve been getting away with this lie for over ten years now! What if there is a year or two where he made tens of millions and paid little or no taxes!?!
What the heck has the GOP been doing for over two years now anyway? They’ve been distracted from creating JOBS and helping the ECONOMY, yet they’ve found the time for 32 attempts to repeal health care (not to mention the $50 million they’ve spent in these attempts); numerous attempts to stall or block the raising of the debt ceiling; hundreds of attempts at blocking women’s health care…with ridiculous bills on Abortions, Contraception and Trans-vaginal Ultrasounds in their “War on Women”; and non-relenting attempts to install Voter ID laws to insure that LESS people will vote so the GOP can ensure they stay in power to name just a few!!!
Republicans have not done one thing, NOT A DAMN THING, to help return the millions and millions of jobs the Bush policies cost the American people…Even though they ran on Jobs, Jobs, Jobs!!! When President Obama took office in January, ’09, we were losing 800,000 jobs a month! They promised their constituents prior to the 2010 midterm elections, that they were setting their sights on JOBS yet they’ve done NOTHING to even create a single bill or job…because that would HELP President Obama and help this country which they want NO PART OF!!!
Romney’s record as Governor of Massachusetts shows he was 47th in job growth out of 50 states. How is that for a good recommendation to get the economy back on track? He has NOTHING OF SUBSTANCE to run on! He can’t run on his record as Governor of Massachusetts because of his poor performance and Bain Capital is all he has left to run on. It’s obvious that he is hiding something rather secretive that he does not want us to discover; otherwise, he’d be releasing his tax returns tout suite to take all the pressure off of him.
He and his handlers have decided that whatever it is he is hiding, far outweighs what he would have to try and talk his way out of… They’ll probably reveal that he’s been controlling Bain a lot longer than he’s willing to admit to. He’s gamed the tax system and refuses to even consider being responsible for his decisions. So therefore, he’s willing to continue to ride out the storm regardless of repeated requests from both sides to present his tax returns! He will give the rich more tax breaks (as if they need it) and end social welfare programs to pay for it. The GOP’s “trickle down” economics plan failed since Reagan and it will again.
A distraction!?! A man who is running for President of the United States of America avoids paying taxes and that is a distraction!?! Wow!!! Integrity matters. Period! Mitt has total control over this “distraction”. All he has to do is release his tax records, all of them…And explain why he has so many offshore accounts.
When you lose control of the narrative your only defense is to call your opponent’s narrative distracting, and hope it sticks. And hope that no one noticed you never addressed the question.
This is not a distraction. If the shoe were on the other foot, Romney’s team would be running this into the ground and be just as relentless in their pursuit to dig up as much dirt on Obama as they could. Look at how he talked so much about Obama’s citizenship and birth certificate when it came to the forefront. He wouldn’t let up. Now the tables have turned and the attack is on him and he can’t handle it. As the saying goes “Don’t dish it out if you can’t take it”!
Romney and his handlers brought this upon themselves. Right now, fortunately, President Obama has the momentum. However, I will be interested in next week’s polls and thereafter, to see what effect it really has on voters.
I LOVE you. I have used this comment as a post all by it’s self, I am so thrilled you have said exactly what real Americans have thought & felt for 4 years. Thank you Ms. Karen Myers. I have posted it right now so you can read it.
You’re welcome! I love you too! I just finished writing it and decided to post it. I did see one typo that I changed when I was editing it but for some reason (I’m not sure why) it didn’t correct my post.
In the paragraph that begins “What ‘he heck…” in the very last sentence, the word “insure” should be “ensure”! Oh well, I tried! I’m glad you enjoyed it! When I get into expressing my feelings about things (especially things that really bother me) I put some deep thought into it!
There’s not a whole lot of time left until November, so I figured I better get busy getting my thoughts out there! Keep up the great posts yourself! 8-)))
Anytime you want to write something and have it posted on this blog, please drop it to me here or in an e-mail and I’ll post it as yours. I enjoy intelligent common sense critical thinking people. Logic is a lost art form these days. Thank you so much for writing that and putting it here. Love & Namaste Ms. Karen.
And then Willard has the audacity to want to say that his tenure and continued profit from his Bain enterprise is not relevant when that is his soul claim to why he should be President.
Mitt is laundering money in his swiss accounts and off shore accts just like any big time crook. He is unsavory and the tax return he has already produced and the one that he will for this year will have been on the up and up because he knew he had to give the country something. Those that are from previous years can’t be produced until they have been fudged, the BOOKS HAVE NOT BEEN COOKED AS OF YET and he can not produced them until the fix is . He is a lyin’ piece of sanctimonious racist scum, a common crook that just hasn’t been caught. Yet!
And if POTUS Obama had done the same exact thing as Lyin Mitt, he’d be swinging from a tree right now as strange fruit.