Exactly what is Boehner's street cred as a small business owner?

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2011-08-04 07:14 PM

SueInCincy
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You know, in all this discussion of "raising taxes kills jobs," there is the well-accepted subtext of "I, John Boehner, should know, since I was a small business owner."

I want to know three things:
How many years did Mr. Boehner actually work at Nucite?
How many years was he president and/or owner of the firm?
During the time he was in charge, how many jobs were added or subtracted from the firm?

I called Boehner's DC office to ask this, and they referred me to his local office. I called the local office, and they referred me to DC.

And so I have wasted several hours looking around on the net, asking the librarian to help me, sending an email to a customer service email I found in a local trade association, and so forth. Curiously, the email I sent to Nucite's customer service contact neither bounced nor got an answer.

The company's website, NuciteSales.com, looks like a real website, but there is no phone number nor email. And the e-mail us page doesn't work. I called the web developer and left a message about how the site is broken, but no answer. And, oh yeah, I sent email to Boehner's office, too.

On and on....

2011-08-05 07:04 AM

Schmidt
Colorado Springs, CO
Posts: 1058

That's interesting. Wikipedia states: "Shortly after his graduation in 1977, Boehner accepted a position with Nucite Sales, a small sales business in the packaging and plastics industry. He was steadily promoted and eventually became president of the firm, resigning in 1990 when he was elected to Congress. "

The Wikipedia link to that statement is his own website with his biography presumably prepared by him. But no mention of the wikipedia statement. Instead there is this: "John ran a small business in the plastics and packaging industry. His experience in the private sector – meeting a payroll, paying taxes, dealing with government red tape – prepared him well to be a reformer in the public sector."

So he modified his experience between the original Wikipedia reference and what shows up today. Instead of touting his presidency, it's modified to "running a small business."

What bothers me more about John Boehner is his absolute loyalty to the Republican Party and the corporate establishment. He has humble roots, being the second of 12 children, and most of his siblings are, according to Wikipedia, "blue-collar workers." Two are unemployed. It would seem to me that with his family blue-collar ties, he should be more sympathetic to middle class workers and the unemployed. I expect that there are other Republicans like John Boehner, that once you join the party collective, loyalty to the collective is absolute..."resistance is futile"...to borrow a phrase from the Star Trek Borg series.

Thanks for sharing your research SueinCincy. Keep us posted on what you find out.

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