Article on Obama's Upcoming Trip to Ft. Myers region.

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When President Obama comes to Fort Myers Tuesday for a town hall meeting, 10 percent unemployment and one of the highest foreclosure rates in the nation will be spotlighted once more on nightly newscasts and in the nation's largest newspapers.


After all, Obama's press secretary, Robert Gibbs, said Friday the president is coming to Fort Myers because the area's unemployment rate has jumped from 6 percent to 10 percent.

Local business leaders, however, aren't necessarily looking at that fact as a negative.

In fact, they are turning it into a selling tactic, none more than Jim Moore, executive director of Lee County's economic development office and the man charged with bringing new companies to the area.

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