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#13292155 at 2021-03-25 01:00:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16838: FAKE News MSM, Trippin Up Fake AF1 Stairs Edition
China Outsourcing from the Timken Company Complicates Jane Timken's Senate Bid in Ohio
Jane Timken, the former chairwoman of the Ohio Republican Party, is running for the U.S. Senate claiming to be an acolyte of former President Donald Trump's America First vision, but the actions of a company bearing her family name that outsourced American jobs to China over the past several decades raise questions about whether she truly believes in it.
Timken's husband Ward "Tim" Timken Jr. was the chairman of the Timken Company from 2005 to 2014, and later was the CEO of the offshoot TimkenSteel which broke off from the main company in 2014. Before, during, and after his leadership of the Timken Company, the organization massively expanded operations in China and decreased jobs in America to the point where the size of its workforce in China as of 2012, according to press accounts, rivaled the size of its workforce in Ohio.
Timken and her campaign told Breitbart News she is an ardent supporter of Trump and his policies, including on China, and given manufacturing industry shifts she witnessed firsthand while her husband was overseeing thousands of American jobs drained to China, she understands the plight of American workers in Ohio and can use this experience to fight on their behalf. She did not answer several questions about her thoughts on the Timken Company's actions, including whether she would have done anything differently; whether she used her voice as a shareholder at all to speak up against the company's actions; whether she and her husband intend to keep their shares of the Timken Company; whether she approved of the company's decisions when her husband was chairman to build plants in China while cutting jobs in America; and what she would do if elected to the U.S. Senate to stand up for Americans who lost jobs from the Timken Company while it expanded operations in China. Nonetheless, the complicated picture - and how Timken handles it from here - could be a make or break issue for a U.S. Senate candidate in a primary in the Trump and America First era, especially in the reddening state of Ohio.
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/03/24/exclusive-china-outsourcing-Timken-company-complicates-jane-Timkens-senate-bid-ohio/