(Paul Mirengoff) James Pethokoukis has cast doubt on claims by the Washington Post that, while at Bain Capital, Romney was involved with companies that were sending jobs overseas. As I discussed here, the Post relied on six Bain-related companies: Computer Software Inc. (CSI), Stream Internationl, Modus Media, GT Bicycle, SMTC Corp., and Chippac. Let’s look at each of them.
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The Washington Post reported today that Bain Capital, the private equity firm Mitt Romney headed for 15 years, invested extensively in companies that moved jobs overseas to low-wage countries like China. The practice contradicts the... Read Post
The Romney campaign e-mailed James Pethokoukis the text above when he asked about Romney's claim that he created 100,000 jobs while working at Bain. Pethokoukis is unsatisfied: Romney likes to say, “I love data.” It’s time he does a... Read Post
(Paul Mirengoff) The lead story in today’s Washington Post is a report about how companies which with Bain Capital was involved during Mitt Romney’s time there “sent jobs overseas.” Having failed to gain much mileage out of a “Romne... Read Post