The claim involves Romney’s Bain Capital making workers at an Illinois plant take down the American flag while training their Chinese replacements.
The United Auto Workers Union among other organized labor groups is applauding and promoting new advertisements that call presidential candidate Mitt Romney an economic traitor who desecrated the American flag. The ads – both television and online – were unveiled today by a front group called Workers’ Voice and Patriot Majority – http://youtu.be/hujoT0hpB40.
“Mitt Romney is an economic traitor who desecrated the flag while decimating jobs,” said Workers’ Voice Communications Director Eddie Vale. “It’s bad enough that Romney and Bain destroy American jobs and send them to China. But to make American workers take down our flag while training their Chinese replacements is something only an economic traitor would do.”
The logic of the claim, as if logic applies to the most expensive Presidential campaign in history at $2 billion and counting courtesy of a corrupt Supreme Court’s Citizens v United ruling, involves an incident where Romney’s Bain Capital made workers at a Sensata Technologies plant in Illinois watched the Chinese take down the American flag as they were forced to train their Chinese replacements. Romney has $8 million worth of Bain funds that hold 51% of Sensata’s shares.
The AFL-CIO in a statement backing the substance of the incident that leads to the charges in the advertisement, added this. “If Mitt Romney had been president in 2009, he would have let Detroit and the U.S. auto industry go bankrupt, jeopardizing 2 million jobs,” said Richard Trumka, president.
“And when President Obama took decisive action in 2009 to enforce our trade laws, imposing tariffs on Chinese tires to protect American jobs, Mitt Romney leaped in to criticize him. Expecting Mitt Romney to get tough on China is like asking his left hand to slap his right hand. We need a president who makes job creation his number one priority – and we need those jobs in the United States of America, not in other countries,” said Trumka. (See Politics or Finally a Policy? Obama Administration Protests at WTO over Chinese Auto and Parts Subsidies. China Instantly Fights Back)
If you have the stomach, see the Romney traitor advertisement at http://youtu.be/hujoT0hpB40 and the accompanying website at www.EconomicTraitor.com
