For Immediate Release:
July 22, 2014
Larry Hogan issues statement on loss of hundreds of jobs at closing Beretta factory in Accokeek.
ANNAPOLIS,
MD – July 22, 2014 – Gubernatorial candidate Larry Hogan this evening
offered the following statement on Beretta’s announced
closing of its Accokeek, Md. manufacturing plant.
“I
am saddened to learn that the hard working women and men I met at
Beretta’s factory in Accokeek in May will now lose their jobs as
a direct result of the O’Malley-Brown administration’s high taxes and
punitive regulations.
The
dedicated workers at Beretta’s Accokeek factory proudly manufactured
the primary sidearm carried by our nation’s servicemen and women
around the world. The loss of these several hundred jobs will tear
through the local community, as millions of dollars in economic activity
and tax revenue evaporate and numerous small businesses that supported
this factory and its employees also suffer.
Under
O’Malley and Brown, Maryland has lost 8,000 businesses and unemployment
has nearly doubled. In fact, 26 percent of our manufacturing
base, and with it 25,000 jobs, has disappeared; today, Maryland is dead
last in the nation in manufacturing. (Bureau of Economic Analysis
http://www.nam.org/~/media/
Maryland’s
working families can’t afford a third term of O’Malley-Brown; it’s time
to bring integrity and common sense fiscal restraint
to Annapolis so we can restore Maryland’s once strong economy.”
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Authority: Hogan-Rutherford Committee to Change Maryland.
John C. Wobensmith, Treasurer
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