Obama’s Allentown, PA Fail: Romney to Hold News Conference

UPDATE:

To watch Governor Romney’s Allentown press conference LIVE today @ 4:10 PM ET, click here.

Mitt Romney is focused on the over 14 million Americans who are out of work…

and the countless more who are underemployed.

The Gov is holding a NEWS CONFERENCE tomorrow at boarded-up Allentown Metal Works in Pennsylvania – a factory that Obama said would benefit from his $800 billion stimulus bill:

Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney will take dead aim at President Obama’s handling of the economy tomorrow when he holds a news conference at a closed Pennsylvania factory the president once said would benefit from the federal stimulus law.

Obama visited the Allentown Metal Works in December 2009 as he touted his $787 billion stimulus bill.

The more than 100-year-old plant, which made heavy steel construction components including trusses beneath the new World Trade Center, subsequently closed this past January.

Romney has argued that Obama’s plans have not worked and the country should give an experienced businessman such as him a chance to resurrect the economy.

“The 2012 election is going to be a referendum on the president’s failure to turn around the economy,” Romney told the Philadelphia Inquirer today. “He’s grown detached and isolated from what people are feeling and experiencing.”

(emphasis added)

A little history on Allentown Metal Works:

Every book has an ending and the same is true with corporate success stories. In America, the endings for books are much easier to accept than the end of a company[...]

Allentown Metal Works, a 100 year old plant in south Allentown, will close its doors for good sometime in 2011.

In 2005 it was used a gritty backdrop in the city’s mayoral election and was held up as a symbol of bringing manufacturing back to the region. It also was a stop on President Barack Obama’s tour of the Lehigh Valley in a recent visit.

However, it more accurately represented a bygone era of when manufacturing was king of the economy in the Lehigh Valley and around the country.

The press will be there:

Event: Romney Press Conference at Allentown Metal Works

When: Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 4:10 PM EDT

Location: Allentown Metal Works, 600 South 10th Street, Allentown, Pennsylvania

► Jayde Wyatt