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Article: The manufacturing czar who Wasn't: Tony Raimondo.
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- Manufacturing & Technology News
- Article date:
- March 19, 2004
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The new "manufacturing czar" came to Washington to be anointed to a post at the Commerce Department created with great fanfare by President Bush on Labor Day, 2003. The press conference was scheduled. Everyone was ready to celebrate. But politics intruded. The press conference was cancelled and the appointee, Tony Raimondo, chairman and CEO of Behlen Manufacturing Co. in Columbus, Neb., sat around for a day waiting for a phone call from the Commerce Secretary and finally said forget it--this isn't for me.
The story that ran in every major newspaper said that Democratic Presidential hopeful John Kerry helped derail the appointment by insisting that Raimondo's ...