Posted on 03/10/2008 3:55:45 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
A wheelchair manufacturing company owned by congressional candidate Dan Meuser and his family paid a $23,000 fine in 1997 for employing illegal immigrants.
Mr. Meuser, president of Exeter-based Pride Mobility Products, acknowledged the fine in an interview and said the complaint by what was then the Immigration and Naturalization Service was prompted by the company’s hiring of three illegal immigrants.
The workers presented the company 13 years ago, then known as Pride Health Care Inc., with false identification that included fake Social Security numbers.
Fighting illegal immigration has been a linchpin of Mr. Meuser’s campaign. In a television ad aired repeatedly during the last month, he touted “The Meuser Plan” for addressing the issue.
He faces Chris Hackett for the Republican nomination to the 10th Congressional District seat and the right to challenge Rep. Chris Carney, D-Dimock Township.
In a statement, Mr. Hackett’s spokesman Mark Harris took aim at Mr. Meuser.
“This certainly raises a lot of questions, not the least of which is how Dan Meuser can be a credible voice on the immigration issue when his own company is guilty of violating immigration law,” Mr. Harris said.
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Pennsylvania conservatives now have an obligation to support Chris Hackett in the Republican primary.
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