Tammy Baldwin charges Ron John the clown 'doesn't support creating jobs in his own hometown'
Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin said Thursday that Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson should want to create high-paying jobs in Wisconsin as she sought to keep up pressure in her efforts to get Oshkosh Corp. to reverse course and bring more than 1,000 new jobs to the state.
"I'm very disappointed that Senator Johnson doesn't support creating jobs in his own hometown instead of South Carolina. And I want the trucks built in Oshkosh with Wisconsin workers," Baldwin said during a media briefing arranged by the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.
On Saturday, the Oshkosh Republican said he supported having more manufacturing jobs in the state but added he wouldn't insert insert himself into the company's decision to build vehicles for the U.S. Postal Service at a new facility in South Carolina.
During a radio interview Thursday with WIND-AM in Chicago, Johnson contended he was "bushwhacked" by a reporter Saturday, and yet doubled down on his comments: "I said, 'listen, it's not like we don't have enough jobs in Wisconsin. The number one problem for employers in Wisconsin is they can't find enough workers. So I also am concerned about ... efficiently and effectively using taxpayer money, and that's what Oshkosh Corp. has done."
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