Domenic Recchia, the Democratic candidate for Staten Island and Brooklyn’s congressional seat, explained his position on a proposed international trade agreement but struggled to make his point. NY1′s Courtney Gross filed the following report.
Congressional candidate Domenic Recchia was telling city labor leaders on Thursday that he wants to keep jobs in the United States.
“We have to work on keeping the jobs here in America and here in New York,” Recchia said.
In the process, the Democrat defined his position on a massive trade agreement proposal, known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP. It would create a trade partnership between the United States and these eleven countries.
Recchia says he is against it.
“We are here to get things changed. Manufacture more in America. Made in America,” Recchia said. “I am against the TPP. That is my position. I am very clear on that.”
However, his knowledge of the agreement during the luncheon seemed a bit unclear.
Recchia: Made in America. That’s what we are all about.
Gross: What exactly is the TPP?
Recchia staffer: We’re going to head back inside.
Gross: What exactly is the TPP?
A half an hour later, NY1 gave the candidate an opportunity to answer our question.
“The Trans-Pacific Partnership is, we have to manufacture more here in America, keep the jobs in America, and it comes to a point in time when we have to stick up for the workers, and made in America is better for this country.”
Rep. Michael Grimm has long said Recchia does not have the experience in foreign policy to serve in the nation’s capitol.
Grimm is a former Marine and FBI agent. Grimm’s office says he is against the trade agreement.
NY1 asked Recchia to comment about Grimm’s record on trade.
Recchia: He has not done a lot for labor, OK? He has a 44 percentage record on labor. My record is much better than that.
Gross: A 44 percentage record from where? What do you mean?
Recchia: When you’re rated in labor, you have a 44 percentage record on labor.
Recchia’s campaign later clarified that he was talking about a rating from the AFLCIO.
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