Kerry Takes Outsourcing Attack to N.C.

[Khephra]

GREENSBORO, N.C. - John Kerry is promising North Carolina workers he will fight the forces sending U.S. jobs overseas, a timely topic in a state losing jobs to the manufacturing slump and international competition.

"Because of George Bush's wrong choices, this country is continuing to ship good jobs overseas - jobs with good wages and good benefits," Kerry said in remarks prepared for delivery at town hall meeting Tuesday. "All across America, companies have shut their doors, putting hardworking people out of a job, leaving entire communities without help or hope."

Kerry was taking his message about jobs and outsourcing to a state with industries vulnerable to international competition, like textiles and apparel. North Carolina is also a state that the campaign sees as competitive territory that could be tipped in Kerry's direction, helped by having North Carolina Sen. John Edwards as his running mate.

Kerry hopes to capitalize on statements made by Bush administration officials to portray the president as unsympathetic to job losses caused by international competition.

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/special_packages/election2004/9598301.htm

[denverbill]

1. We need to be all over this issue for the next 2 months.

Outsourcing and H1B visas are serious issues, and the Republican attitude is do nothing.

Unfortunately, another major corollary issue is illegal immigration, but Democrats have no balls on that front.