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Posted at 03:34 PM ET, 01/20/2012

Labor jumps into GOP primary fray

By Greg Sargent

It isn’t every day that major national unions get involved in GOP presidential primaries, but that’s exactly what’s happening in Florida right now — another sign of how the bipartisan attacks on Romney’s Bain years have scrambled the political calculus.

AFSCME is going up with a major ad buy in the state hammering Mitt Romney's record as a businessman — and giving it a local angle by linking Romney to Governor Rick Scott.

“What kind of a businessman is Mitt Romney?” the ad intones. “While Romney was a director of the Damon Corporation, the company was defrauding Medicare of millions.” AFSCME sent me the spot:

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