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#KeystoneReport: Success in Butler Pennsylvania. Salena Zito, Middle of Somewhere, @DCExaminer Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, New York Post, SalenaZito.com

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🗓️ 6 April 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#KeystoneReport: Success in Butler Pennsylvania. Salena Zito, Middle of Somewhere, @DCExaminer Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, New York Post, SalenaZito.com
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2948223/pennsylvania-casey-hopes-not-to-strike-out-union-voters/

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0:00.0

This is CBSI on the World with John Bachelor.

0:08.0

Here's John Bachelor.

0:10.0

Butler, Pennsylvania, success.

0:13.8

I welcome Salina Zito of the Washington Examiner in the Wall Street Journal to remind us

0:19.4

that sometimes the good guys win.

0:23.0

Selina, it's a pleasure to welcome you to the show.

0:26.5

You write most recently the examiner about Representative Mike Kelly,

0:32.1

gathering with people who were ready to mourn the loss of their jobs in Butler, Pennsylvania.

0:39.4

They arrived that evening expecting to be seated and listened to the representatives

0:44.3

and the representatives aides had provided 50 seats. The what I see from the

0:49.3

photograph you provided there are about 14,000 people.

0:52.6

What was...

0:53.6

So, so, and the topic was jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs.

1:00.3

What did Mr. Kelly say that buoyed them that evening?

1:03.0

So for the past, first of all, thanks for having me.

1:07.0

So for the past year, the United Auto Workers

1:12.0

3303, they represent their steel workers.

1:16.5

They represent this plant, it's Cleveland Cliffs' Plant in both Butler, Pennsylvania and Ohio.

1:23.0

And out of the blue last year, a Department of Energy rule came down

1:28.0

that would, um, would spoil it down, but basically not let them use the steel that they've been making for

1:35.5

hundreds of even for a hundred years and had to use this other steel that was

1:41.1

made in China and Vietnam and would have put them out of business.

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