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Mitt Romney Must NOT be allowed to pivot on his FEMA story. This issue before us IS the election! Fourth quarter and we have the ball at the 2 minute warning. Time to run out the clock.
In the final days of the 2012 race, Mitt Romneys campaign is really making good on its pollsters August promise to ignore fact checkers. To close the deal in the Ohio, Team Romney is blitzing the state with a series of wildly deceptive statements and ads suggesting that Chrysler is moving local jobs to China. The latest is an unannounced radio spot, audio of which was posted by the Greg Sargent on Tuesday. The spot asks whether Obama rescued the auto industry for Ohio or China? Now comes word that Chrysler plans to start making Jeeps in you guessed it China, the ads narrator says. What happened to the promises made to autoworkers in Toledo and throughout Ohio the same hard-working men and women who were told that Obamas auto bailout would help them?
The radio spot is a supercharged version of an earlier television ad, also unannounced, that drew unusually widespread condemnation in the local and national press for tying a planned expansion of Jeep operations in China to the fate of Jeep workers in Ohio. And that ad jumped off similar statements Romney made earlier while campaigning in Ohio. Chrysler, Jeeps parent company, has publicly condemned Romneys claims as false, writing on its website that they have no intention of shifting production of its Jeep models out of North America to China and that any expansion in Asia is to serve Asian markets. In fact, they are adding over 1,000 jobs to their Toledo factory as part of a $500 million investment in upgrading its capacity.
After Romney continued to suggest otherwise in ads, Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne personally called him out for inaccurate claims . Jeep is one of our truly global brands with uniquely American roots. This will never change. So much so that we committed that the iconic Wrangler nameplate, currently produced in our Toledo, Ohio plant, will never see full production outside the United States, Marchionne said on Tuesday. Jeep assembly lines will remain in operation in the United States and will constitute the backbone of the brand.
GM didnt take well to the ad either, bristling at the notion that the auto rescue which the Center for Automotive research estimated saved 1 million US jobs encouraged outsourcing. Weve clearly entered some parallel universe during these last few days, GM spokesman Greg Martin told the Detroit Free Press. No amount of campaign politics at its cynical worst will diminish our record of creating jobs in the U.S. and repatriating profits back to this country.
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http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/romney-camp-going-off-the-fact-checking-rails-in-ohio.php?ref=fpa
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AUTO Companies To Romney: STOP LYING ABOUT US PLEASE! (Original Post)
Segami
Oct 2012
OP
We have to overcome the big money put out in the last week to spook the voters.
freshwest
Oct 2012
#1
freshwest
(53,661 posts)1. We have to overcome the big money put out in the last week to spook the voters.
Segami
(14,923 posts)2. Any lawyers on the board? Is it against the law
to willfully spread lies and disinformation directed at a ' publicly-traded company ' that could result in affecting and depressing the company's trading stock value? Shorting-selling gains?