Unaired ad from 1994 highlights Romney's Bain record

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by Laura Clawson
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/14/994524/-Unaired-ad-from-1994-highlights-Romneys-Bain-record?via=blog_1

The knives are definitely out for Mitt Romney. A former Ted Kennedy adviser has provided Politico with an unaired ad from Kennedy's 1994 campaign against Romney.

Though Politico's Alexander Burns hedges repeatedly—some criticisms of Romney are "overstated," the Bain story is "a little more complicated," "Romney has been more careful than he was in 1994"—the tales of Romney's job-destruction exploits continue to be a lot clearer than the hedges. For instance:

In 1992, Bain Capital purchased the company American Pad and Paper, which subsequently laid off 250 workers at an Indiana plant and hired some of them back after slashing their wages and retirement benefits.

And:

In 1993, Bain Capital bought the company GST Steel, which later filed for bankruptcy and closed a steel plant in Kansas City, and a string of smaller companies also ran into trouble after being acquired by Bain Capital.

When it comes to the economy, Romney can try to run on Barack Obama not having done enough to save or create jobs in a bad economy. But he's going to have to explain why he thinks we should prefer his record of making millions off of eliminating jobs.

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[JDPriestly]

1. That ad finishes Romney's campaign. He shouldn't bother

to run any longer.

Romney is a prime example of the kind of person we should not listen to in America. He is good at running things into the ground. He is a destroyer, not a builder.