Georgia Republican David Perdue may claim he doesn’t need to defend his outsourcing past because he’s “proud of it”—but apparently he doesn’t feel the same pride over a stint working for an Indian chemical textile company. Perdue’s stint as a senior consultant for Gujarat Heavy Chemicals Ltd. has been removed from his bio at Perdue Partners, a “global trading company” he co-founded along with his cousin, former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, and isn’t mentioned in his Senate campaign biography.
Perdue’s campaign is insisting the work for GHCL isn’t in his biography or mentioned much on the campaign trail because it was no big thing, just a little part-time job:
“It’s very clear this was a part-time job, he was traveling back and forth and he had a growing amount of work with the other companies he was getting involved with,” Perdue campaign spokeswoman Megan Whittemore told The Hill. “He never relocated there, he never moved there. He traveled back and forth.”
Hmm. Sounds defensive. And it’s contradicted by Perdue’s own pre-campaign account of his life:
“I’ve spent the better part of the last three years in India helping people there start a retail operation,” Perdue said in a 2011 interview with Global Atlanta.
It’s not clear why, when he’s talking plenty about his career consisting mostly of outsourcing production from the U.S. to Asia—even if he is trying to redefine what it meant—Perdue would be working so hard to avoid mention of his work for Gujarat Heavy Chemicals Ltd. Is it because he thinks Georgia voters won’t get that what he did for Sara Lee and Reebok was outsource production to Asia, but they’ll automatically connect a company with an unfamiliar Indian name to outsourcing? Or is there something more?
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David Perdue shouldn’t get a free pass to only talk about the parts of his resume he thinks will appeal to Georgia voters. It’s time for him to explain why GHCL has gone from being the thing he “spent the better part of the last three years” on to being just some insignificant part-time job.
