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Biden stumps in Valley today
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YOUNGSTOWN
During a visit today to a Youngstown advanced-technology company, Vice President Joe Biden will focus on the economy and why it’s important to re-elect President Barack Obama.
Biden will “also draw a contrast” between Obama and Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, according to the president’s campaign.
Biden will speak at M7 Technologies on Ohio Works Drive about noon. The rally is expected to last about an hour.
“There’s Obama Economics, which values the role of workers in the success of a business and values the middle class in the success of the economy. A philosophy that believes everyone deserves a fair shot and a fair shake, and everybody should play by the same rules,” Biden said in excerpts released ahead of today’s visit.
“And then there’s Romney Economics, which says as long as the government helps the guys at the very top do well, workers and small businesses and communities can be left to fend for themselves,” the excerpt read.
“We have a very unique opportunity with the vice president of the United States coming to Youngstown; this is History 101,” said Mike Garvey, M7’s president, during a brief telephone conversation Tuesday as he was running around getting his business ready for the rally.
“The values of M7 and the values of the Obama campaign are very consistent,” he said. “We both believe it’s important to work hard, to play fair, and we love American products made by American workers.”
In anticipation of Biden’s visit today to Youngstown, followed by a Thursday stop at a Martins Ferry auto dealership, Republicans criticized the vice president and Obama.
“The vice president will have to answer to the president’s energy policy,” said U.S. Rep. Mike Turner of Dayton, R-3rd, who spoke to reporters on a conference call arranged by the Republican National Committee.
Turner said Obama is a “job destroyer,” and the president is trying to “strangle energy production.”
Local Democrats had a Tuesday press conference outside Youngstown City Hall to praise Obama’s policies, saying they’ve strengthened the manufacturing and auto industries.