8/15/08
An AFL-CIO flier and Obama campaign ads say that McCain cost Ohioans 8,000 jobs.
We say that's a distortion of the record.
By Joe Miller
August 15, 2008
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/distorting_the_dhl_deal.html
Summary
Ads from the AFL-CIO and the Obama campaign claim that McCain is partly to blame for the loss of more than 8,000 jobs in Ohio. They paint a false picture.
There's at least some truth in both ads: German-based DHL announced a deal that could result in 8,200 lost jobs in Wilmington, Ohio. And McCain did in fact oppose an amendment that would have kept DHL from buying Wilmington-based Airborne Express. McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, was also a DHL lobbyist charged with easing the merger through the Senate.
