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Mahoning GOP leader: Don’t trust the Clintons
BOARDMAN
Local supporters of Republican Donald Trump’s presidential bid want Mahoning Valley voters to know that Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, and her husband, Bill, the former president, shouldn’t be trusted.
“They both have a history of telling lies and half-truths and making promises they don’t keep,” Mahoning County Republican Party Chairman Mark Munroe said Friday outside Southern Park Mall.
In 1992, Bill Clinton, fresh off capturing the Democratic presidential nomination, had a rally with 8,000 people outside the mall promising his support for Youngstown’s bid for a federal Defense Finance and Accounting Services center if elected. He won, but the center – and 7,000 jobs – never came.
“People under 30 years of age don’t know about this,” Munroe said. “They both are ethically challenged.”
In response, Mahoning County Democratic Party Chairman David Betras said, “I’m not surprised the Republicans are reaching back 24 years in their desperate attempt to deflect attention from their nominee’s record of outsourcing jobs, filing bankruptcy, abusing workers and retaliating against Trump employees who attempt to unionize.”
About 25 people attended Friday’s event, urging voters to support Trump.
Among them was Wendy Aron of Boardman, who supports Trump because “he’s going to build a wall to keep illegal immigrants out of our country” and “Mexico will be happy to pay for the wall.”
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said his country would not pay for it.
Donna Calhoun of Ellsworth, also at the rally, said Trump is “refreshing and he gives us hope. He’s not a politician. He’s not bought and paid for. He stands for the right things.”
Clinton and Tim Kaine, her vice presidential running mate, will be at East High School tonight. Republicans are organizing a protest near the school.