Team Obama attempted to discredit Mitt Romney during the opening
moments of the Republican National Convention by holding a press
conference featuring a handful of career politicians and Democratic
operatives who railed against Romney’s business bona fides.
Speakers such as Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs and Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley (D) crowded into the Democrats’ Tampa Bay headquarters to highlight the story of so-called “Bain victim” Randy Johnson, a one-time paper mill employee who claims that Romney’s former investment firm, Bain Capital, destroyed his life.
Johnson, who worked at American Pad & Paper (Ampad) after Bain purchased the company in the early nineties, maintains that the investment firm callously managed the mill with an eye only towards profits.
Gibbs and others touted Johnson as a credible everyman, a blue-collar worker who is out to protect the American worker.
Yet they failed to mention that he draws a large paycheck from a liberal-leaning steel union and travels across the country on the Democratic National Committee’s dime, a disclosure that raises questions about Johnson’s credibility.
Johnson is a “living example of the type of economic leadership that Romney believes uniquely qualifies him to be president of the U.S.,” Gibbs said before Johnson took the podium at Obama headquarters in Tampa.
“We’re here to tell the truth,” Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa declared moments before Johnson told his story to reporters.
Read more: http://freebeacon.com/team-obama-seeks-to-downplay-romneys-business-past/
Speakers such as Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs and Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley (D) crowded into the Democrats’ Tampa Bay headquarters to highlight the story of so-called “Bain victim” Randy Johnson, a one-time paper mill employee who claims that Romney’s former investment firm, Bain Capital, destroyed his life.
Johnson, who worked at American Pad & Paper (Ampad) after Bain purchased the company in the early nineties, maintains that the investment firm callously managed the mill with an eye only towards profits.
Gibbs and others touted Johnson as a credible everyman, a blue-collar worker who is out to protect the American worker.
Yet they failed to mention that he draws a large paycheck from a liberal-leaning steel union and travels across the country on the Democratic National Committee’s dime, a disclosure that raises questions about Johnson’s credibility.
Johnson is a “living example of the type of economic leadership that Romney believes uniquely qualifies him to be president of the U.S.,” Gibbs said before Johnson took the podium at Obama headquarters in Tampa.
“We’re here to tell the truth,” Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa declared moments before Johnson told his story to reporters.
Read more: http://freebeacon.com/team-obama-seeks-to-downplay-romneys-business-past/
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