Obama Camp Blasts Mitt Romney Over Viral Hidden Video Talk About China Work Conditions
by Tommy Christopher
As President Obama campaigns on his administration's ninth trade complaint against China, and while Mitt Romney hits back by lying about it, the President's reelection campaign is attacking Romney's China policy from another angle. They're promoting a Boston Globe report on Romney's investments that includes a viral hidden camera video showing the Republican candidate discussing, with donors, the deplorable conditions at a Chinese factory that Bain Capital was considering investing in.
The Boston Globe‘s Matt Viser reported on the many intersections of Mitt Romney’s criticisms on China and his business dealings, including a firm called Global Tech, a deal that was made long before Mitt Romney’s highly dubious “retroactive retirement” from Bain. While Romney can try to sell the idea that after 1999, he had no responsibility for the company he was sole owner of, he’ll have a harder time distancing himself from this deal:
Romney appeared to reference the Global Tech investment in a video that appeared on YouTube about three weeks ago. In the 2-minute video, which was shot surreptitiously and purports to be taken at a high-dollar Romney fund-raiser, Romney describes some of the spartan working conditions at a company Bain officials were planning to buy.
“When I was back in my private sector days, we went to China to buy a factory there,” he says. “It employed about 20,000 people. And they were almost all young women between the ages of about 18 and 22 or 23. They were saving for potentially becoming married, and they work at these huge factories.”
Romney said the women were packed into dormitories, 12 per room in bunk beds, and only earned a “pittance.”
The video in question features Romney telling donors the story of his visit to a factory in China, and detailing the grueling conditions he observed:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/obama-camp-blasts-mitt-romney-over-viral-hidden-video-talk-about-china-work-conditions/
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