Ron Johnson tells Wisconsin worker not to worry about losing jobs to South Carolina

[turbinetree]

By Josh Israel -February 17, 2022 5:30 PM

The Wisconsin Republican continues to defend a top donor's decision to ship 1,000 jobs out of state.

A union worker pressed Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) on Wednesday about his refusal to push a local defense contractor to keep jobs in Wisconsin. Johnson argued that if a major Wisconsin business sends 1,000 jobs to South Carolina, it will be good for the Badger State.

In recent weeks, Johnson has been under fire for comments suggesting that Wisconsin already has plenty of jobs and for refusing to urge Oshkosh Defense — a manufacturing company based in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, that is owned by one of Johnson's biggest campaign funders — to build postal vehicles in the state.

The company, which received a massive contract last year to build the United States Postal Service's next generation of delivery vehicles, announced last June that it would create a new facility in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and would hire "over 1,000 local team members" there to manufacture the fleet.

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.

https://americanindependent.com/ron-johnson-oshkosh-defense-jobs-south-carolina-wisconsin/

What is absolutely reprehensible with this a*&hole, is that he and the republicans have used this BS of pitting one worker against another and now pitting one state against the other.....and then having the f&*&^ing audacity to tell some worker trying to make a living and basically asking this jerk to keep jobs in the state he said this .....

"Johnson responded by telling the caller that "economic development is not universally distributed" and that "really good-paying jobs" are available, but "you do have to look around."

[Doodley]

1. Ron Johnson: the man who got where he did by marrying a rich woman, whose

brother owned a plastics company and made him CEO.

[Sneederbunk]

2. Johnson should worry about losing his job in November.

[NCjack]

3. He can relocate to South Carolina, and work on the assembly line

to make vehicles for the USPS. That would be justice, since he is the guy sending the jobs south.

[jcgoldie]

4. "economic development is not universally distributed"

Wut??

I think it means... my advocacy is not universally distributed, its for the donor class not the voters of my state silly!