ROMNEY CAMPAIGN RESPONDS TO "BAINPORT"

Source: WIFR

The Mitt Romney campaign is responding to Freeport's "Bainport" tent community.

Dozens of Sensata workers whose jobs are being outsourced to China are protesting across the street from the factory, camping out in a tent community they're calling "Bainport". Protesters say they will be living in "Bainport" until Mitt Romney comes to discuss the outsourcing of jobs in America.

"Governor Romney has not worked at Bain Capital for over a decade, but for four years President Obama has been presiding over an economy that is creating too few jobs and sending more jobs overseas. Despite the President being invested in Sensata through his personal pension fund, and the government owning a major Sensata customer in GM, President Obama has not used his powers to help this situation in any way." ~ Curt Cashour, Romney Campaign Spokesman

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Mitt Romney is the majority shareholder in Bain Capitol, which owns Sensata. It is true that Romney is no longer the CEO of Bain Capitol - but as the company's majority shareholder HE CAN FIRE THE CEO. This idea that Mitt "can't do anything..." is a pure right-wing bull.

He can, but chooses not to.

Adding insult to injury, the Romney campaign has childishly justified their inaction by suggesting that the President shares the blame because his pension as a State Senator holds Sensata stock in it's portfolio - a portfolio that individual state pensioners have little control over, and misses the point: no one wants Sensata to take an economic hit because they are sending jobs to Communist China.

We want those jobs to stay here!

"It's OK to send 170 American jobs to Red China because this other guy hasn't divested" is a crap excuse.

But it is the excuse Mitt Romney is using.

The answer is NOT to have ANYONE divest from Sensata - but to have Mitt pick up the phone, and stop this move overseas and keep Sensata an American company!

Please visit http://www.bainport.com to learn more about the plight of the 170 employees whose jobs Mitt Romney is sending to Red China, or go to Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! interview with the hard working folks Mitt Romney is putting out on the street @ http://www.democracynow.org/2012/9/20/bainport_a_taste_of_the_romney.