Choice to Head Manufacturing Post in Question

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Thursday, March 11, 2004; Page A01

Six months after promising to create an office to help the nation's struggling manufacturers, President Bush settled on someone to head it, but the nomination was being reconsidered last night after Democrats revealed that his candidate had opened a factory in China.

Several officials said the nomination may be scrapped because of the political risk but said that had not been decided. Bush's opponent, Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), has made job losses his chief point of attack, and some administration officials feared the nomination could hand him fresh ammunition.

In late afternoon, the administration announced that the new assistant secretary of commerce for manufacturing and services would be named at a ceremony this morning. Industry officials were told that the job would go to Anthony F. Raimondo, chairman and chief executive of a Nebraska company that makes metal buildings and grain silos.

But Kerry's campaign, tipped off about the impending nomination several hours earlier, hastened to distribute news reports that Raimondo's firm, Behlen Manufacturing Co. of Columbus, Neb., had laid off 75 U.S. workers in 2002, four months after announcing plans for a $3 million factory in northwest Beijing.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48216-2004Mar10.html

[RamboLiberal]

1. Hah! Another Bushie Rove Blunder!

Great job Kerry and staff!

[Tellurian]

2. Rollin', Rollin', Rollin',

keep those doggies rollin' Rawhide!

HA!

[dArKeR]

3. Kerry is making a mistake if he says 'the biggest bunch of crooks I've

ever seen' if he doesn't back it up with this and the other thousands of examples!

[jburton]

4. Way to go Kerry team!

So this was uncovered by the Kerry camp?

Excellent work!!!

[sandnsea]

5. We got pictures!

From the Kerry forum:
http://forum.johnkerry.com/index.php?showtopic=11247

Tony Raimondo at the new Glass Factory building in Fujian, China



New Behlen Glass factory Building. Approx. 300,000 sq.ft.



http://www.behlenedge.com/photos/trade.asp

We got defense contracts:

http://www.defenselink.mil/search97/s97is....20Manufacturing


http://www.defenselink.mil/dodgc/defense_e...ntractors02.pdf