FLINT, MI (WNEM) -
Obama for America's weeklong "Michigan Road to Recovery" tour made a stop in Flint on Tuesday afternoon.
The campaign will highlight a local business that makes custom corrugated cardboard packaging for a range of clients, including automakers and suppliers that need to ship auto parts from factory to factory.
Flint mayor Dayne Walling will join Genesee Packaging owner Veronica Artis to discuss the widespread impact of Michigan's economic comeback and the auto industry's resurgence.
The event began at 1 p.m. at the plant on 2022 North Street in Flint.
Thursday is Day Four of the "Michigan Road to Recovery Tour," which kicked off Monday with a conference call featuring Senator Carl Levin and Ed Montgomery, Dean of the Public Policy Institute at Georgetown University and formerly the Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers on President Obama's Task Force on the Auto Industry.
Stops have included Trent Designs, an Oakland County marketing and design firm, and Yesterdog, a Grand Rapids institution that saw its only decline in sales in its 36-year history at the nadir of the Michigan economic downturn in 2009 and into 2010, but is doing better than ever in 2012.
The statewide tour is highlighting other sectors of the economy and communities as a whole that are benefitting from the revival of the American auto industry and Michigan's manufacturing resurgence.
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