Wisconsin: ijustdontknow exposes Sunspot Johnson's business "acumen"

[Scuba]

Great blog post following earlier article...

PACUR was actually a spin-off company of another plastics company called
Curwood, which was co-founded by Howard Curler (Ron Johnson’s father-
in-law) in 1958.
Howard Curler was a giant in the plastics industry. In the late 1960s, he
led a merger with the huge multinational corporation, the Bemis Company,
but stayed on as president of Curwood. From 1978 to the early 1990s,
Howard Curler would be CEO of Bemis. (Today, Howard Curler’s son,
Jeffrey Curler is president and CEO of the Bemis Company.)

Howard Curler’s other son, Pat Curler, headed-up the spin-off company,
which started in 1977 and was named PACUR, as a shortening of Pat
Curler’s name. For many years PACUR’s only “client” was “selling” plastic
products to parent company, Curwood.

In 1979, when Ron Johnson was 24, he accepted an offer to join his wife’s
family’s plastic business, moved to Wisconsin, and worked in the PACUR
company under his brother-in-law, Pat Curler.

This is exactly how it happened, but if you just learned about Johnson from
media coverage and Johnson’s campaign, you would be led to believe (as I
was) that an entreprenurial Johnson was a “self-made man” that started a
plastics company in Oshkosh.

For example, the NRSC likes to refer to Johnson as an “entrepreneur” and
a on a recent campaign trip to LaCrosse, GOP State Rep. Mike Huebsch
introduced Johnson as someone that “built a successful manufacturing
company from scratch.”

This is simply not true.

The reality is that Ron Johnson lucked-out by marrying Howard Curler’s
daughter, but that doesn’t make him an entrepreneur and a business-
dynamo,





Earlier post, this topic...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1354929

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. let me guess, he's also a Green Bay fan.

self married man, indeed.

[midnight]

2. I suppose you like me thought what the hell... This guy does nothing...

His only customer was his brother in law company... This guy couldn't find a job let alone make any jobs....

[Scuba]

3. Worse, the employees are made up of ....

...BadgerCare (low income taxpayer funded healthcare) recipients and prisoners from the local state prison.

[nykym]

4. I believe the term you are looking for is

Gigolo.