DETROIT (WKZO) -- Republican presidential hopeful, Mitt Romney joked about his father's decision in the 1950s to close a Detroit auto plant.  While conducting a telephone town hall meeting yesterday with Wisconsin voters, Romney talked about his father, George Romney, who while CEO of American Motors, closed the automaker's Detroit plant and moved the work to Wisconsin.

During the conversation Romney reportedly laughed about the issue and quipped about how it affected his father who went on to become a three-term Michigan governor.  A key issue in Mitt Romney's presidential campaign has been his opposition to the federal government's handling of the auto bailout.