Obama's "Main Street Tour" will be in Wisconsin on Wednesday.
The post-State of the Union Obamapalooza tour is stopping in Manitowoc.
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
President Barack Obama will visit with employees at Orion Energy Systems in Manitowoc during his visit to the state on Wednesday, according to a White House official.
The visit is part of the president's Main Street Tour. Obama is expected to tour the company and speak to employees about the economy, the official said.
The president is expected to make additional stops in the Manitowoc area.The White House did not immediately release what time Obama is expected to be in Manitowoc.
Obama's visit will come one day after he delivers his State of the Union speech to Congress. His Main Street Tour began in December 2009 when he visited the Lehigh Valley area of Pennsylvania.
The official said that, while in Wisconsin, Obama will "continue his conversation with American families and workers about rebuilding an economy that ensures America’s long-term economic competitiveness and guarantees that America and its people continue to lead in the future."
Here's more on Obama's Manitowoc visit, from the Green Bay Press-Gazette:
President Barack Obama's Wednesday visit to the Lakeshore area was at the top of Mayor Justin Nickels' "Community Update" Monday.
..."President Obama is going to be in Manitowoc pretty much the whole news day," Nickels said, expressing delight that reporters would have "Manitowoc" as their dateline in reports filed with TV networks and national newspapers.
"This is the day after his State of the Union speech," Nickels said. "I've gotten calls from MSNBC, NBC, CNN … our name will be all over the national and international news."
However, a noon tour of Orion Energy Systems is the only certain stop on Obama's agenda in Manitowoc, and Nickels said it may be as late as tonight before other locations are identified.
It is part of Obama's "White House to Main Street Tour" that also has included, since December 2009, Lehigh Valley area of Pennsylvania, Lorain County, Ohio; Savannah, Georgia; Kokomo, Indiana; and several cities in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri.
"What is Obama's visit going to cost us, and are we going to get reimbursed?" asked Helen Goswitz when Nickels started taking questions following his update.
"The federal government doesn't reimburse for presidential visits … we have asked finance to create a separate line where departments can charge so we know what we have spent," Nickels said.
The presidential visit will cost the city. Terrific. It should be called Obama's "White House screws Main Street Tour."
Gov. Scott Walker will greet Obama when Air Force One arrives at Austin Straubel International Airport in Green Bay.
That's pretty sweet. Chicago Bears fan Obama will be flying in to Green Bay, Titletown.
Walker will welcome Obama with a "special gift."
Gov. Scott Walker has a present for the president. Walker says he’ll be welcoming Barack Obama to Wisconsin on Wednesday, when the president plans to visit a renewable-energy company in Manitowoc. The Republican governor plans to present Obama with a “special gift.”
Walker spokesman Cullen Werwie wouldn’t reveal what the gift is. He says he doesn’t want to spoil his boss’s secret.
It’s possible the gift has to do with the Packers. Obama, an Illinois native, had predicted his Chicago Bears would beat Green Bay in the NFC Championship game.
A cheesehead emblazoned with the Packers logo and the presidential seal would be nice. Perhaps an iPod with Vince Lombardi's speeches would have a positive effect on Obama. A Packers jersey would also be a good present, though I get the feeling that Obama is more of a Jay Cutler sort of guy.
I hope when Obama visits Orion he'll manage to pronounce the company's name correctly.
Remember this, from March 23, 2009?
Obama touted the work being done by Orion. Unfortunately, he struggled with saying "Orion." The brilliant Obama didn't learn how to pronounce the company's name, even though just minutes earlier he had listened to a presentation that included the proper pronunciation.
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All terrific press for Orion, except that Obama kept pronouncing the company’s name wrong, calling it OAR-ee-on.
After finishing his remarks and talking with a few people, the president returned to the microphone and said his prepared remarks led him to pronounce the firm's name wrong.
“I suspect this is Or-EYE-on as opposed to OAR-ee-on. Just wanted to make sure that when I’m giving you a plug, that we’ve got the right plug. It’s Or-EYE-on.”
Not too smooth.
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UPDATE, January 26, 2011:
During his remarks today at Orion, Obama mispronounced Manitowoc. He incorrectly put the accent on the third syllable instead of the first.
His staff really should make sure he has the correct pronunciation.
4 comments:
"...though I get the feeling that Obama is more of a Jay Cutler sort of guy."
I thought I read somewhat that Mary was enjoying not being involved with the Cutler debate. (Wondering what sort of guy that would be? One of 32 starting QBs in the NFL? Leader of one of the 4 best teams this year? Owner of 6 performance records still in effect at Vanderbilt?)
I'd just love to have the world's media dissect your every more, comment, gesture and see how you hold up to such scrutiny. There is a GM factory here in Orion, Michigan - and any news story that appears, pronunciation of the name of the community (and plant) gets butchered by the media and it's local residents. People who live in the town can not agree how to pronounce it. Besides, given the volume of mispronunciations by Mr. Obama's predecessor, I hardly think this is a fair or valid critique. People reading this have to understand the tactic is to trash literally anything Mr. Obama says and everything he does...attack, attack, attack. Diminish his considerable accomplishments even if, in doing so, you harm the country and it's citizens.
You mean the brilliant Obama never heard of the constellation Orion or the Orion of mythology?
How about this? I'll agree not to dissect every one of Obama's moves if he'll agree to learn from his mistakes. As in, if you mispronounce a word on one Wisconsin trip, you make darn sure you know how to pronounce them all on your next one.
And yeah - Orion. The hunter. You learn it in third grade when you are learning your constellations.
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