News broke yesterday that Democrat Senator Joe Donnelly has been profiting handsomely from the very outsourcing tactics he has denounced during his congressional career. The AP reports that Donnelly’s family business ships raw materials to Mexico, where it manufactures its products before shipping them back to the U.S. Donnelly reported earning up to $50,000 from his investment in the company last year alone.

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AP: AP Exclusive: Senator’s family business uses Mexican labor
Joe Donnelly, considered one of the nation’s most vulnerable Democratic senators up for re-election next year, has long blasted free-trade policies for killing American jobs. He accused Carrier, an air conditioner and furnace maker, of exploiting $3-an-hour workers when it announced plans to wind down operations in Indiana and move to Mexico. However, an arts and crafts business Donnelly’s family has owned for generations is capitalizing on some of the very trade policies — and low-paid foreign labor — the senator has denounced.

WSBT-22 (South Bend, IN): AP report claims Donnelly profiting from outsourcing
The report says Donnelly profits from a family business that relies on Mexican labor to produce its products. Records found by the AP reportedly show the company participates in a Mexican government program, allowing it to avoid some taxes on what they manufacture in the country.

The Hill: Dem senator’s family profits from outsourcing he decries: report
Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.), who has fiercely criticized the outsourcing of U.S. jobs, has profited from a company that uses a Mexican factory to produce dye for ink pads, The Associated Press reported Thursday. Stewart Superior Corp., an arts and crafts business owned by Donnelly’s family, has for more than a year shipped raw material to a company-owned factory in Mexico where it produces ink pads and other products. The materials are then shipped back to a facility in California.

Free Beacon: Joe Donnelly Increased Investment in Family Business After Shift to Mexican Labor
Indiana senator Joe Donnelly (D.) didn’t make substantial investments in his family’s ink business until after it moved part of its manufacturing into Mexico, and his profits have steadily increased in the years since, according to financial disclosure forms. Donnelly’s investment in the family company, Stewart Superior Corp., was highlighted on Thursday by the Associated Press, which pointed out the senator’s past criticism of companies that outsource manufacturing to Mexico. Donnelly has said that outsourcing is “a fancy term for ‘someone in Indiana has just lost their job,'” and is currently sponsoring the “End Outsourcing Act.”

Washington Examiner: Sen. Joe Donnelly condemned outsourcing … all while his family business shipped jobs to Mexico
In Indiana, according to Census data, workers clocking in at 9:00 a.m. and clocking out at 5:00 p.m. can expect an average annual household income of $50,532. That’s a decent, hard-earned, income. It’s also in the neighborhood of what Sen. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., earned in 2016 dividends from his local, family business that ships Hoosier jobs to Mexico, according to a damning report from the Associated Press.

Daily Beast: Report: Senator Profits From Outsourcing He Denounces
Indiana’s senior Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly has profited from a family business that outsources labor to Mexico despite his reputation of hard rhetoric against such practices, the Associated Press reported Thursday…But the AP revealed that, for more than a year, his family’s arts-and-crafts business and its subsidiaries “have been shipping thousands of pounds of raw materials to Mexico, where the company has a factory that produces ink pads and other supplies.” Donnelly’s brother runs the company, Stewart Superior Corp., but the senator disclosed this year that he owns as much as $50,000 in company stock and reporting earning as much as that figure in 2016 alone.

Daily Caller: Senator Joe Donnelly Profits From Mexican Factory
A perfect example of political hypocrisy and perfidy has recently come to light in the exposure that Democratic Indiana Senator Joe Donnelly is the former General Counsel and major stockholder in his family’s business in Indiana. A business with a factory in Mexico. Since Donnelly’s election to the U.S. Senate and in recent months Donnelly’s family company — Stewart Superior Corp. and its subsidiaries have shipped tons of raw materials to its Mexican factory where Mexican men and women assemble raw materials for finishing in a California plant. This is done duty free in both directions and uses Mexican labor that is paid far less than their Indiana counterparts.

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