Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Larry Hogan statement on loss of Maryland's Beretta factory jobs to Tennessee

For Immediate Release:                                                                                     Contact: Adam Dubitsky
July 22, 2014                                                                                                        adubitsky@hoganforgovernor.com
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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/6A62983CF6AD4AC09F2648B1007816DB/MFG_employment_20140606.pdf
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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