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Biden to Speak At Friday Morning Rally in Lordstown
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Vice President Joe Biden will attend a rally with workers and guests at the United Auto Workers Local 1714 union hall in Lordstown at 11 a.m. Friday, the Obama campaign confirmed Wednesday.
The visit is being dubbed a "grassroots event" that emphasizes President Barack Obama's and Biden's intent to create an economy "from the middle out, not from the top down," according to an advisory released from the campaign.
The vice president will discuss the choice voters have in this election and two different visions about how to grow the economy, create middle class jobs, and pay down the debt.
Biden's visit comes one week after General Motors Co. announced it would invest $200 million in its Lordstown complex to accommodate production of the second generation of the Chevrolet Cruze.
The event is one of a series of visits the vice president is making over the Labor Day weekend that will focus on the Obama Administration's bailout of the auto industry in 2009.
Biden visited Youngstown in May, and President Obama visited Poland in July. Mitt Romney, who is scheduled to formally accept the Republican Party's nomination to be its presidential nominee Thursday, the day before Biden's visit, appeared in Youngstown in March and his pick for vice president, Paul Ryan, recently stopped in Warren for lunch.
In advance of Biden's visit, the Ohio communications director for the Republican National Committee, Catherine Gatewood, issued a statement. "It is our hope that Vice President Biden will leave the false attacks and negative campaign rhetoric in Washington, and come prepared to answer Ohioans questions about the Obama Administration’s dreadful record of failed promises and historical deficits,” she said.
Copyright 2012 The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.