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Former Mead worker to introduce Obama in Chillicothe
It’s not hard to find economic despair in Ohio and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama plays up that theme at every stop on his two-day campaign swing through the state.
Today, Oct. 10, in Chillicothe, Obama will be introduced by Matt Kendall, who lost his job in 2002 at the Mead paper plant in that Ross County city in a massive layout, the Obama campaign announced.
The introduction follows the pattern of Obama’s first day on the Ohio campaign on Thursday, Oct. 9. In Dayton, Tony Curington, who took a buyout from Delphi introduced him and in Cincinnati Raquel Huseman, who took a buyout from Ford after working at the Batavia plant, introduced him.
Kendall, the Chillicothe worker, has been laid off a number of times since 2001 and currently is unemployed, Obama’s campaign said. Ohio has lost nearly 200,000 jobs since President Bush took office in January of 2001 and Obama has made creating new jobs a major campaign theme.
Obama also will campaign in Columbus today before heading for Pennsylvania.
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