Monday, July 16, 2012

Romney to pin 'political payoffs' on Obama

Republican Mitt Romney plans to accuse U.S. President Barack Obama of political cronyism at the expense of middle-class workers, his presidential campaign said.
The coordinated offensive, titled "Obama's Political Payoffs and Middle Class Layoffs," was to start Monday highlighting alleged "systematic favoritism" by the Obama administration toward more than 200 top Obama donors, the Romney campaign said.
The alleged favoritism involved giving top donors federal appointments and lavishing their companies with taxpayer money and special government deals, campaign officials said.
"If you're a political donor to Barack Obama you're going to do fine because you're going to get a payoff," senior Romney campaign adviser Edward W. Gillespie told CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday.
"If you're a middle-class worker you're in jeopardy. You're facing a layoff," he said.
"That's the kind of economy we're seeing with President Obama. His buddies do well, political supporters do well -- they get green jobs, money, and they get stimulus dollars.
"If you're a middle-class worker, you're struggling right now, and Mitt Romney can make things better for you, and he has a plan to do that, and that's what we're talking about while President Obama is trying to talk about everything but," said Gillespie, former counselor to the president in the George W. Bush White House.

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