Post Election Politics

So today it looks like DHL Express is ending it’s operations in the U.S. with a huge loss of jobs.

That should make the people of Wilmington, Ohio happy.

Anyone remember that John McCain and his campaign manager, Rick Davis were mainly responsible in DHL (a German company) taking over Airborne Express over the objections of many members of Congress and the other domestic delivery services such as American Express and UPS?

McCain was the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee and his campaign manager, Rick Davis, was a lobbyist for DHL. Davis and his partner got over $500,000 from DHL on the deal. Trent Lott was involved too. And the State of Ohio and some local governments came up with more than $400 million in incentives for road and facility upgrades for DHL in Wilmington, Ohio.

And Ohio almost went to McCain again.

Link to a good article by the Plain Dealer Politics Blog:

http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2008/08/dhl.html

Note all of the comments posted defending the whole mess.