Obama campaign rejects Factcheck.org report defending Romney
Source: Daily Caller
President Barack Obama’s campaign staffers are pushing back against the FactCheck.org site after it concluded June 29 that Gov. Mitt Romney had not exported any U.S. jobs before he left Bain Capital in 1999 to run the Winter Olympics.
“The statement that Gov. Romney ‘left’ Bain in February 1999 — a statement central to your fact-check —- is not accurate,” said Stephanie Cutter, Obama’s deputy campaign manager, in a letter released late Sunday night.
“Romney took an informal leave of absence but remained in full legal control of Bain… at a minimum, we ask that a copy of this letter be posted prominently along with your Outsource overreach report, enabling the readers you serve to drawn their own conclusions,” she wrote.
The issue is important to the Obama campaign, which is using TV attack-ads to reduce Romney’s potential support among working class swing voters by portraying him as a heartless, job-cutting, factory-closing, offshoring and outsourcing corporate predator.
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