Obama will deliver his State of the Union address on January 25, 2011.
The day after his speech, Obama is going on the road.
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
President Barack Obama plans to travel to Manitowoc on Wednesday, Jan. 26, a White House official said Tuesday.
The White House has released no other details about the visit.
...It would be his first trip to Wisconsin since the 2010 campaign.
The Republican Governors Association has released this statement in response to Obama's travel plans:
Republican Governors Association spokesman Mike Schrimpf released the following statement today regarding the White House’s announcement that President Obama will visit Manitowoc, Wisconsin the day after he delivers his State of the Union address:
“Last November, voters overwhelmingly rejected the tax, spend and borrow policies of Democrats at every level of government and no state did so more dramatically than Wisconsin.
Like most of the country, Wisconsin residents cast their ballots for lower taxes and limited government by electing Republican Scott Walker to the governorship and Ron Johnson to the U.S. Senate, and giving Republicans control of both state legislative chambers.
President Obama would be wise to follow the example being set by Governor Walker and Republicans in the state. The nation, like the people of Wisconsin, wants a chief executive who will focus all his energy on job creation and hold the line on taxes, eliminate red tape and reduce the size and reach of government.”
Clearly, Obama is showing that he's not willing to retreat and give up on the battleground state of Wisconsin.
He's wasting his time.
The people of Wisconsin gave the liberal Russ Feingold the boot and elected a conservative, Ron Johnson, to represent us in the U.S. Senate. (I love saying that.)
We elected Republicans Reid Ribble and Sean Duffy to fill seats in the U.S. House of Representatives previously held by Democrats.
We elected a conservative to be governor of our state, Scott Walker.
We gave control of both houses of the Wisconsin State Legislature to the Republicans.
What is Obama going to say in Manitowoc?
Is he going to say that he screwed up during his first two years as president, that he led the country in the wrong direction, and that he's going to change his radical Leftist ways and become conservative?
If not, Obama should take his shtick elsewhere. We're not buying it.
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Obama will be visiting Orion on Wednesday.
FLASHBACK, October 15, 2010: Orion and Obama
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Orion Energy Systems Inc. said Friday its two wind turbines and solar panels installation, coupled with its own energy efficiency technologies, mean that its Manitowoc factory has hit a milestone in meeting its own energy needs.
“During certain periods of time during the day, we actually displace as much energy as our manufacturing facility consumes,” said Kevin Crawford, vice president of government affairs.
Orion said it hoped to convince its energy efficiency customers, including one-fourth of the Fortune 500 companies, to deploy distributed renewable power in conjunction with energy efficiency as part of what the Manitowoc firm calls the Orion “integrated system.”
The company installed a small wind turbine in August and more recently a larger 50-kilowatt wind turbine adjacent to its headquarters and factory. The company also has installed 270 kilowatts of panels from California solar tube developer Solyndra on the 266,000-square-foot factory’s roof.
Orion says its own energy efficient lighting technologies and its electric-light reducing daylighting product, the light pipe -- shown in conjunction with Solyndra's panels in the picture below -- are being used to reduce energy use within its factory. The Solyndra solar panels plus the wind turbines are generating power to offset the remaining energy use.
On days when it’s overcast or there isn’t much wind, grid parity won’t be achieved, but it’s a milestone nonetheless, Crawford said.
Obama touted the work being done by Orion over a year ago.
Unfortunately, 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.
Not too smooth.
March 23, 2009:
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 smooth at all.
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