Greg Schultz, OFA-Ohio state director, targeted the state’s auto workers and farmers.
“GM and Chrysler were going to go under,” he said. “This president had the bravery to stand up and save an industry that saved us from the Great Depression.”
Schultz attacked the Romney-Ryan ticket for what he said were plans to cut crop insurance.
Clark County Sheriff Gene Kelly also spoke, condemning Romney for his support of Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Ohio Senate Bill 5, a law backed by Kasich and the GOP that curtailed collective bargaining for public employees but was defeated by referendum in November.
“Romney said, ‘I’m 110 percent with John Kasich,’” Kelly said. “The Kasich-Romney way of doing things is to do away with the benefits of public servants.”
Chris Maloney, spokesman for the Romney campaign in Ohio, said that Romney is 110 percent with taxpayers.
“Gov. Kasich stands with taxpayers and he’s making the difficult decisions that Ted Strickland didn’t have the courage to do as governor and President Obama didn’t have the courage to do over the last 3½ years,” he said.
Schultz said that Americans are better off now than they were three years ago thanks to reduced involvement in foreign wars, more jobs, and the bailout of General Motors and Chrysler. Maloney countered by saying that health care is more expensive, jobs are fewer, and the country is $5 trillion deeper in debt.
“I think it would come as a surprise for a lot of Ohioans that President Obama’s campaign would say that we’re better off now than we were four years ago,” said Maloney.
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