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Title: Exclusive — Make Central America Great Again: Luther Strange Lobbied for Trade Deal That Drained Thousands of Alabama Jobs to Honduras, Mexico
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Published: Sep 22, 2017
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Post Date: 2017-09-22 11:52:43 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Exclusive Make Central America Great Again: Luther Strange Lobbied for Trade Deal That Drained Thousands of Alabama Jobs to Honduras, Mexico
In a strange twist of fate, one of the key figures who helped bring about this transfer of jobs out of Alabama is now campaigning for the Senate seat formerly occupied by Jeff Sessions. Even stranger still, his campaign ads promise that he will Kill Unfair Trade Deals.
His name is Luther Strange.
Strange enters the Russell story as a lobbyist for the powerful political broker and law firm Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP. Russell paid the firm $660,000 for Stranges lobbying efforts between 2000 and 2006.
One of Russells major political focuses at the time: getting the U.S. to sign onto a NAFTA-style free trade agreement with Central American countries.
Whatever it was Strange did on behalf of Russells free-trade politics, it was effective. The U.S. Senate approved the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement, known as DR-CAFTA, in 2005. The very next year, Russell announced that it would move thousands of jobs out of Alabama to Mexico and Honduras.
Russell said the company will eliminate about 2,300 jobs from its global workforce of 15,000. About 1,700 of the jobs cuts will be in the United States, with about 1,250 in Alabama, the Associated Press reported in 2006. About 1,200 of the U.S. jobs will eventually be replaced by hiring in Honduras and Mexico, the company said.
Lobbying for the Central American free trade pact was a very lucrative job for Luther Strange. But for thousands of Alabamians it was far more devastating than that 1902 fire that nearly destroyed Alex City.
Luther Stranges record of self-dealing is staggering, Drew Messer, a senior adviser to the Moore campaign, told Breitbart News. In his former life as a Washington lobbyist, he was paid big bucks to work for implementing CAFTA, the trade debacle that sent thousands dof Alabama jobs to Mexico and Honduras and thousands of small businesses into bankruptcy. Stranges entire career has been marked by putting his own interest over the people of Alabama.
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