TAMPA, Fla. -- Whatever she thought she'd do with her vacation this year, Joanne Penniston didn't expect to find herself in a parking lot-turned-encampment behind an Army-Navy surplus store, 1,200 miles from her home in Illinois, talking with left-wing activists about the outsourcing of American jobs.
But Penniston, 35, works for Sensata Technologies, a manufacturer of sensors for cars that's owned by Bain Capital -- the private equity firm that's become synonymous with GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, a founding partner. Penniston, along with roughly 170 co-workers, recently learned that her plant in Freeport, Ill., will be closed within months. The jobs of its workers will go to China.
And that's how Penniston -- who described herself as being apolitical until now -- found herself on the outskirts of the Republican National Convention, with three Sensata employees from back home holding signs like "Mitt/Bain Is Shipping My Job To China."
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