Candidates trade barbs over Duluth hardboard plant closing
October 8, 2012 at 7:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
With the soon-to-be-shuttered Georgia-Pacific hardboard plant in Duluth as his backdrop, Democrat Rick Nolan took aim Monday at U.S. Rep. Chip Cravaack in the battle over how to create and retain jobs in the 8th Congressional District.
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Look in the background and SURPRISE! there’s Sharla Gardner mugging for the camera. I don’t recall seeing anything in the media about Gardner trying to keep the plant open, Nor of Al Netland, Gauthier, or the whole cabal of alleged labor supporters, so why is it that Cravaack is the only politician under the microscope. The Koch brothers bought the entire GP corporation and kept the money hemorrhaging Duluth plant open for 7 more years than they could have or should have, and they’re the bad guys? This plant’s infrastructure is among the oldest in the country. The environmentalists have been trying to shut it down for years, but Cravaack and the Koch brothers are the evil ones here? Give it a break. Old plants close down if they haven’t been maintained. The Duluth plant was a mess for years before Koch bought. How is that his fault? He kept people employed for 7 more years and he’s the bad guy?
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