1 News Day = Lots of Bad News for Vilsack
June 15th, 2006 at 01:11pm Geraldine
Rubbermaid announced last night that it will be moving 500 jobs from Centerville (population 6,000) to Kansas. The company turned down the offer of a $1 million tax break under Vilsack’s Iowa Values Fund, and executives explained that they believe there are more opportunities for expansion in Kansas. Vilsack’s statement, issued this afternoon, doesn’t seem very reassuring to the hundreds of Iowans finding their jobs in jeopardy lately:
Today’s news is upsetting, but it reinforces my commitment to creating and retaining sustainable, quality jobs in our state. We are working every day to transform Iowa’s economy and minimize the impact of a changing, global marketplace.
Chris Woods at Political Forecast covers the possibility of an override of Vilsack’s veto on eminent domain.
The Concord Monitor’s story on Vilsack’s visit wasn’t exactly positive- it noted that he doesn’t have foreign policy experience beyond a few recent trips abroad and that he called complaints in New Hampshire about the possibility of making the primary later in the nominating calendar ”overblown.”
Another article says Vilsack’s people are leaving New Hampshire out to dry:
The plan has yet to be made final by the rules committee and the full DNC, but New Hampshire Democrats widely viewed the Iowa votes as a clear break from the decades-long alliance between the two states to work together to protect their early positions.
New Hampshire Democratic Chair Kathy Sullivan, herself a member of the DNC rules committee, said:
“There are a number of New Hampshire Democrats who are disappointed that the Iowa commissioners and member of the rules committee have not voted with New Hampshire on these things.”
Vilsack said he has not talked to the Iowans on these panels about it. One of them was Des Moines attorney Jerry Crawford, a big contributor to Vilsack’s Heartland PAC. The rules committee member is Sally Pederson, Vilsack’s own lieutenant governor and chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party.
Even more embarassing for Governor Vilsack, his wife was forced to wear ugly shoes while touring a plant in NH.
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3 Comments Add your own
1. 2008: More on Vilsack in &hellip | June 15th, 2006 at 1:37 pm
[…] I was set to write another long post on Gov. Vilsack’s “Live Free or Die” adventure in the Northeast, but I’m about to embark on some investigative blogging work and wanted to be able to focus this afternoon’s post-work activities on that I want to focus on. So, if you want a bit more about Vilsack’s bad day, see this post from Hannah over at Iowa Progress. […]
2. Nick | January 21st, 2008 at 4:18 pm
I live in north east iowa (went to school at UNI) and my professors always talked about how industry was leaving Iowa. The big reason the firms don’t come here is because the location is simply boring–at least that is what my professor said. I’d have to say I agree with him.
Nick Gross
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3. Van Insurance Quote | March 4th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
I live in Scotland and I have a similar story to what I read in this blog. The area I was brought up had a very large steel work called British Steel.
British Steel closed in November 1998, after 70 years in operation. It was a very depressing year for the community because of the way the closure affected the workforce.
The workforce was mainly made up from local residents so you can imagine the impacted it had. British Steel employed 10000 people in Lanarkshire.
The affects on large company closures have fatal life
changing consequences to communities and you only understand it when you have experience it in real life like I
have .
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