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TexasTowelie

(116,799 posts)
Mon Aug 13, 2018, 12:40 AM Aug 2018

Outsourcing critic an GOP Senate nominee Mike Braun's brand sells foreign parts

The off-road accessory was shipped in a box emblazoned with the logo of an auto parts brand owned by Mike Braun, a multimillionaire businessman who often rails against foreign outsourcing in his bid to become Indiana’s next senator.

The words “Made in China” were stamped across the packaging.

Braun frequently criticizes his opponent, vulnerable red-state Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly, for once owning stock in a family business his brother runs that operates a factory in Mexico. However, the Republican nominee’s own parts brand, Promaxx Automotive, sells products that were similarly manufactured abroad, according to a review by The Associated Press.

It has been well documented that Braun’s national auto parts distribution company, Meyer Distributing, ships and sells other companies’ goods that are made outside of the U.S. Such practice doesn’t leave him vulnerable to charges of hypocrisy, he argues, because as a distributor he only resells the parts and has no control over where the companies make them.

But the revelation about the Chinese origin of much of his own products line, which Meyer trademarked with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, draws into question some of Braun’s statements on the campaign trail, where he seldom – if ever – mentions Promaxx.

Read more: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2018/08/10/outsourcing-critic-mike-brauns-brand-sells-foreign-parts/962276002/

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Outsourcing critic an GOP Senate nominee Mike Braun's brand sells foreign parts (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2018 OP
Hypocrisy-R-Us repugs. KY_EnviroGuy Aug 2018 #1

KY_EnviroGuy

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1. Hypocrisy-R-Us repugs.
Mon Aug 13, 2018, 01:04 AM
Aug 2018

Republicans are publicly imperialists and nationalists, but globalists in their private lives and political policy. They need to be constantly called our for their bullshit.

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