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Friday, August 5, 2011

'Not Made in USA: Even Campaign T-Shirts Get Outsourced'

from deathandtaxesmag...........

"Newt Gingrich had an awkward moment last week when an ABC News producer presented him with one of his campaign t-shirt’s, which was made in El Salvador.
This is very embarrassing, of course, since Gingrich, like all 2012 candidates, claims he wants to create American jobs. Buying a campaign shirt from elsewhere simply reeks of hypocrisy.
Asked to explain the apparel, Gingrich was clearly perturbed and attempted to distance himself, the head of his campaign, from the gaffe. “I’ll have to ask the folks who ordered this. I don’t order it and I don’t do it,” he said.
Team Gingrich later said the foreign-made shirts were a mistake, and that particular line will be discontinued.
Their curiosity piqued by the Gingrich revelation, ABC News staffers ordered more shirts from declared candidates.
Five — Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Jon Huntsman, Tim Pawlenty, and President Obama — passed the politically symbolic ‘Made in America’ test. Three other White House hopefuls — Rick Santorum, Herman Cain and Ron Paul — failed".............READ MORE

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