Mitt Romney Commissioned Pro-America Pins, Made Them In China
Source: ThinkProgress
At a fundraiser in Virginia last night, Mitt Romney touted his experinece running the Salt Lake City Olympic Games in 2002 — a familiar refrain — but also introduced a new rhetorical line about something more specific: lapel pins. He told a story about the “We Stand United” American flag pins he commissioned for the games, which took place just months after the terror attacks on 9/11. Romney touted his creation of the pins as a means to explain how he hopes to bring Americans together:
ROMNEY: And so we created a little pin and we notified people that we’re now going to be selling these pins and the proceeds are going to go [to charity]. … I just remember going downstairs after it was announced — we were in a big, tall skyscraper in Salt Lake City, and it must have been next door I think where they were selling these pins, and there was a line all the way down the street.
Watch it:
Complicating Romney’s patriotic message is the fact that the pins were made in China, according to a website run by the Utah state government’s culture department, as TPM’s Evan McMorris-Santoro pointed out on Twitter.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/05/03/476261/mitt-romney-america-pins/
Nothing says Pro-American like a pin made in China.
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Oh please God. I hope he's got a warehouse full of those little suckers cause ya know it would never occur to him not to use them. He is a job creator just wrong jobs. What are all those women doing there? Probably his posse, cause that's how mittens rolls!
Those are 100% made in America. I know this because I work at the company that put the artwork on the mugs. It's a pain to print up 50,000+ copies of any one design, but it did keep our crew working last year. (And now that Romney is the official nominee I'm hoping the Obama campaign orders more! 
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So suck it, Romney. You're nothing but a cheap fraud, just a spoiled dandy who thinks he can buy his way to the Presidency without any actual merit.
KEEEEP talking, Mitt. 
