Romney to Make NH Primary Campaign Stop at Gilchrist Metal Fabricating Company
On Monday January 9th, Gilchrist Metal Fabricating Company will welcome Mitt Romney to its manufacturing facility as he makes his final push before the New Hampshire primary scheduled to be held on Tuesday, January 10th.
In late 2011, the company also played host to Jon Huntsman, former Utah governor and Chinese ambassador who spoke at length about the importance of the manufacturing industry, American jobs, and the necessity for “’made in America’ to mean something again”. GMFCO President Jack Gilchrist expects Romney’s visit to echo a similar theme.
Isn't that curious? A small business owner is visited by not one, but two Presidential candidates during the primaries, and both of them are Mormons.
Huntsman visited on August 31, 2011: Huntsman outlines job creation plan during stop in Hudson
Gilchrist is apparently an independent last year during the Huntmans visit
Gilchrist Metal president Jack Gilchrist, who is a registered independent, told the Union Leader that he has not endorsed a candidate yet, but is happy to provide a venue for Huntsman’s announcement
Independent? What is this curious bit showing up
in Bing cache:
10am [May 16, 2011], NHGOP press conference with Steve Duprey, Jack Gilchrist, and Marilinda Garcia on national debt, Concord
Steve Duprey is a fromer chairman of the New Hampshire GOP, finance chairman for Kelly Ayotte in her Senate race, and his wife Susan is
a “close confidante’’ to Ann Romney. Marilinda Garcia is a GOP member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. Jack Gilchrist? Searches for "Jack Gilchrist, New Hampshire" only turn up this Jack Gilchrist from Gilchrist Metal Fabricating Company.
Jack Gilchrist is so independent, he even went as far as to endorse Jon Hunstman as part of the “New Hampshire Job Creators for Huntsman” in November.
He wasn't the only one in his company who was enthousiastic about Huntsman:
Attendees, in attire ranging from Harley Davidson T-shirts to blazers and ties – some sporting “Huntsman” campaign stickers – sat listening in the middle of the plant’s press brake department, before a fresh, star-spangled banner that stood out sharply against the company machinery.
But then he appears on
a Romney campaign call on June 4:
JACK GILCHRIST, GILCHRIST METAL FABRICATING: “Our business, our neighbors, ourselves, are all affected negatively by the same condition: and that’s uncertainty. The Obama economy is just loaded with uncertainty. We have a rising debt. We have a devalued currency. And every time that happens I have less money to buy more expensive equipment with to try and keep up with technology. We’re the stockholders of America and every time our stock is worth less, I feel like I’m worth less and it’s harder for me to run my business. I want a Mitt Romney. I want somebody who can generate equity for me and the stockholders of America. I think we need a leader that takes responsibilities, not a fundraising professor that blames others.”
And his next appearance for the Romney campaign we have all heard of by now.
Of course Gilchrist Metal Fabricating does everything without the government. Or does it?
Gilchrist Metal Fabricating, whose customers run the gambit of defense, deepwater drilling, concrete precast, medical devices, power transmission, paper pulp processing and boat construction, makes sure no single industry accounts for more than 20 percent of its business at any given time.
Ok, time to go to sleep. In the whole, this took me about two hours. Obviously, this Jack Gilchrist is far better connected in the GOP than Romney's ad lets on and he is an independent in name only.