Romney Camp Silent On Whether Bain Purchased Brutal Chinese Factory

Source: TPM

The Obama campaign is pouncing on a leaked fundraiser video in which Mitt Romney describes touring a factory in China as president of Bain Capital. According to Romney, the company packed workers into crowded dormitories behind barbed wire, while paying them a fraction of American wages.

Left unclear, however, is whether Romney ended up investing in the facility himself. While the video has circulated for weeks, and drawn renewed attention in recent days, the Romney campaign has yet to deny that the candidate bought the factory. It’s likely to get more attention now that more secretly filmed clips of a Romney fundraiser leaked to Mother Jones. The clips of Romney describing the Chinese factory appear to be from the same event in which Romney suggests all Obama supporters receive government handouts.

“You know, that video’s old, you can call Bain and ask them what they did in terms of investing on it,” senior Romney adviser Ed Gillespie told reporters on Monday. “I don’t have any information on it.”

The Romney campaign told TPM Monday that Gillespie’s “no comment” would be its final word on whether Bain acquired the factory. A spokesman for Bain Capital did not immediately return a message left on his phone, but CNN reported a “source familiar with Bain’s investment history” said Bain did not purchase the factory.

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