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Posted: 6:52 PM Jan 20, 2012
“King of Bain” Video Sparks Controversy
Two businessmen in rural Marianna, Florida, 60 miles west of the state Capitol, are crying foul over their inclusion in an anti Mitt Romney video.The half hour production, titled “King of Bain” is the work of a super PAC supporting Newt Gingrich.
Reporter: Mike Vasilinda Email Address: news@wctv.tv “King of Bain” Video Sparks Controversy |
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Marianna, FL -- January 20, 2012 --
8700 people cal Marianna, Florida home. The sleepy Florida Panhandle town has become center stage in the GOP primary fight for the presidency.
“One stop on Romney’s quest: Marianna, Florida.”
Romney’s Bain Capital purchased, then sold, a small washing machine manufacturer, here.
A video accusing Mitt Romney of being a jobs killer features two Marianna businessmen.
There’s just one problem: those who were interviewed here in Marianna say everything they said was taken out of context.
The video implies that Tommy Jones’s income suffered after Bain took over.
“We prospered from the time that UniMac was sold to Raytheon, through Bain,” Mike Baxley, former UniMac employee and current co-owner of Marianna based Washers-R-Us. “Then the fact is at the end they closed our factory down and we had to go find more employment.”
Jobs were lost here, but Jones and partner Mike Baxley started their own successful company. Both say every quote in the video was taken out of context.
“You don’t know what’s true anymore,” Jones said.
The partners say its disgusting that more than 176,000 people have seen the video.
The men are hoping that Mitt Romney will come to town in person, so they can tell him first hand they didn’t say bad things about him.
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@Jack Obama did not triple the debt in 3 years so I'm obviously not saying that. You can't even read straight because your ideology gets in the way. Furthermore, you can't do the arithmetic or you would do the arithmetic and you would see that the debt increased less than 50% in Obama's 3 years. The debt was $10.6 trillion on 1/20/09 and is $15.2 trillion today. You also ought to put some kind of governor on yourself to keep from saying really stupid things.
LOL!!!
So you're saying Obama tripled the debt in three years??
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