Setting the record straight!
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Dear Mr. President:
We in Canada not with interest your latest campaign ads suggest Mr. Romney may have certain vampire like-tendencies. To set the record straight, there are only two remaining vampires left in the world both resident of Canada.
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As well as, businessman Kevin O'Leary a regular on CBC Television's The Lang & O'Leary Exchange and sell-professed vampire.
Thank you for allowing us to set the record straight.
Sincerely,
Clare L. Pieuk
Obama ad calls Mitt Romney's Bain Capital frim a 'vampire'
By Rachel Weiner
Monday, May 14, 2012
President Obama’s campaign is out with a tough new ad, “Steel,” attacking former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney’s record on job creation.
The two-minute ad focuses on GS Technologies, a steel mill in Kansas City, Missouri, that was bought by Romney’s private equity firm Bain Capital and went bankrupt soon after.
The ad paints Romney as out of touch with the needs of the local workers and concerned only with Bain’s own profits.
“We view Mitt Romney as a job destroyer,” says one former mill worker in the ad. Another calls Bain “a vampire. They came in and sucked the life out of us.”
The spot will air in five key states: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Iowa and Colorado. It will run for only one day, May 16, on the evening news. The campaign has also launched a Web site, RomneyEconomics.com, with a six-minute version of the ad.
“Mitt Romney helped create more jobs in his private sector experience and
more jobs as Governor of Massachusetts than President Obama has for the entire
nation,” said Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul.
The Romney campaign also released its own web ad, “American Dream,” focused on a successful steel company invested in by Bain:
Bain bought GST in 1993. According to a January profile of the takeover by Reuters, less than a decade later, the plant closed, and 750 workers lost their jobs. The workers were denied their severance and health insurance, and their pensions were cut. A federal pension agency had to bail out the underfunded pension plan. Yet Bain profited.
“Bain Capital invested in many businesses,” Romney spokesman Ryan Williams
told Reuters. “While not every business was successful, the firm had an
excellent overall track record and created jobs with well-known companies like
Staples, Dominos Pizza and Sports Authority.”
Romney co-founded Bain, but he left in 1999 to run the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. The steel company went bankrupt in 2001. “He set this in motion,” argued Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter on a conference call with reporters.
The ad is Obama’s first to attack Romney’s business record, but it’s not the first criticism of Romney’s Bain tenure during the presidential campaign. In the Republican primary race, former House speaker Newt Gingrich and Texas Governor Rick Perry took similar lines of attack.
Sincerely,
Clare L. Pieuk
By Rachel Weiner
Monday, May 14, 2012
President Obama’s campaign is out with a tough new ad, “Steel,” attacking former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney’s record on job creation.
The two-minute ad focuses on GS Technologies, a steel mill in Kansas City, Missouri, that was bought by Romney’s private equity firm Bain Capital and went bankrupt soon after.
The ad paints Romney as out of touch with the needs of the local workers and concerned only with Bain’s own profits.
“We view Mitt Romney as a job destroyer,” says one former mill worker in the ad. Another calls Bain “a vampire. They came in and sucked the life out of us.”
The spot will air in five key states: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Iowa and Colorado. It will run for only one day, May 16, on the evening news. The campaign has also launched a Web site, RomneyEconomics.com, with a six-minute version of the ad.
The Obama campaign has launched a $25 million ad buy this month.
The Romney campaign also released its own web ad, “American Dream,” focused on a successful steel company invested in by Bain:
Bain bought GST in 1993. According to a January profile of the takeover by Reuters, less than a decade later, the plant closed, and 750 workers lost their jobs. The workers were denied their severance and health insurance, and their pensions were cut. A federal pension agency had to bail out the underfunded pension plan. Yet Bain profited.
Romney co-founded Bain, but he left in 1999 to run the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. The steel company went bankrupt in 2001. “He set this in motion,” argued Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter on a conference call with reporters.
The ad is Obama’s first to attack Romney’s business record, but it’s not the first criticism of Romney’s Bain tenure during the presidential campaign. In the Republican primary race, former House speaker Newt Gingrich and Texas Governor Rick Perry took similar lines of attack.
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