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Eighth District DFL congressional candidate Rick Nolan said incumbent Republican  Rep. Chip Cravaack did not do enough to keep a Duluth hardboard manufacturing plant open.

Nolan held a news conference today outside the gates of a Georgia-Pacific plant  that began shutting down in late August.  The plant employed

141 workers. Several of them stood behind Nolan as he linked Cravaack to the closing.  Nolan suggested Cravaack did not more vigorously  oppose the shutdown  because the  Koch brothers, who are direct and indirect  financial supporters of Cravaack's campaign, have an ownership interest in Georgia Pacific.

"Our Congressman Chip Cravaack has been all show," said Nolan. "He's been no go and when the working men and women in this district are looking for a champion, someone who will step up and fight  for them to help keep and retain their good jobs, he's nowhere to be found."

The Cravaack campaign issued this statement in response:

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