“Gotham’s reckoning,” or angry man in a puffy costume? The 13-foot Dark Knight Rises villain was at Bain HQ in Manhattan Thursday with labor rights organization United NY to demonstrate against Mitt Romney’s economic policies.
Mitt Romney responded in a series of five interviews with the major networks Friday to allegations he stayed at Bain Capital passed the February 1999 date he said he ended there. According to the Bain Capital website in December 2000 accessed online via the Web Archive, Romney was not listed as a member of the Bain Capital “management team.”
In case you missed all five interviews, you can watch the highlights in 60 seconds.
After Meet The Press interview goes wrong, Booker is still not over the backlash on Twitter. “The truth expressed without love and care can sometimes be as damaging as a lie.”
Confidence gives way to resignation. “It’s going to be really tough — a 2004 race.
New ad buy follows $1.3 million campaign announced last week, and will air in North Carolina, Ohio, Iowa, and Virginia.
Will Mitt Romney? The Private Equity Growth Capital Council put out this video to explain what they do. No mention of layoffs.
Democratic Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick appeared on CNN and defended the Boston-based company Mitt Romney led, saying it wasn’t “a bad company.” Patrick added “I respect what Bain does and its role in the free market system,” he said.
Romney has come under fire this week from Democrats for his role leading the private equity firm Bain Capital. Romney, though, is proud of his work, as he said while running for governor: “I wish I could bat 1.000, I can’t, but I’m basically in the investors hall of fame.”
Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Jon Huntsman, and Sarah Palin have all taken shots at Romney over Bain Capital.
The private equity company pushes back at Democratic attacks on their stewardship of American Pad & Paper.
Ashleigh Banfield yells at Ben Labolt for the Obama campaign’s Bain attack ad on Romney.
“He promised us the same things he’s promising the United States. And he’ll give you the same thing he gave us. Nothing. He’ll take it all.” Priorities USA, Obama’s Super PAC, doubles down on the Romney Bain attack. Ad is first in multi-million dollar series to run in Colorado, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Mitt Romney’s old venture capital firm, Bain & Co., has become a focus of political attacks this cycle, and its executive have underwritten Romney’s SuperPAC. But they’re not all backing Romney: Bain managing director Jonathan Lavine is an Obama bundler, the campaign confirms.
The pro-Gingrich SuperPAC Winning Our Future is releasing a documentary on Medicare fraud that occurred at a Bain-owned company while Mitt Romney sat on the board. Winning Our Future tells BuzzFeed that the film, entitled “Blood Money,” will begin airing tomorrow at 5pm est. Their first film, When Mitt Romney Came To Town, was widely panned and had to be amended to remove inaccuracies. Here’s the background on the fraud from a earlier BuzzFeed article.
