News of DHL's plan to outsource jobs at the Wilmington-based air park has reached all the way to the White House. Now a U.S. senator from Ohio is seeking help from the Oval Office to keep the jobs here.

U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown has asked for the White House to appoint a senior administration official to help save the jobs at DHL in Wilmington.

At a roundtable discussion Monday afternoon at the Kelly Center on the Wilmington College campus, Brown said he has talked to President George W. Bush's chief of staff, Joshua Bolten, concerning DHL's plan to outsource. "I spoke with President Bush's chief of staff last week asking him to designate one person specifically in the White House - a senior administration official - to coordinate any kind of response in terms of saving these 8,000 or 9,000 jobs," he said.

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