President Obama Won’t Be Returning His Donations From Bain Capital
Though the Obama campaign has repeatedly attacked Mitt Romney for his career at Bain Capital, President Obama still accepted $7,500 in campaign contributions from three Bain executives.
His campaign press secretary, Ben LaBolt told The Politicker the president has no intention of giving the money back.
“No one aside from Mitt Romney is running for President highlighting
their tenure as a corporate buyout specialist as one of job creation,
when in fact, his goal was profit maximization,” said Mr. LaBolt. ”The
President has support from business leaders across industries who have
seen him pull the economy back from the brink of another depression,
manufacturing and the auto industry revived, and support his agenda to
build an economy that lasts where America outinnovates and outeducates
the rest of the world and economic security for the middle class is
restored.”
On Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden defended the attacks
on Mr. Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital. Though he insisted he wasn’t
“criticizing private equity firms,” Mr. Biden said there were many
examples of Mr. Romney and his Bain colleagues causing tremendous harm.
“You hear all these stories about his partners buying companies …
where they load up with a tremendous amount of debt. The companies go
under, everybody loses their job, the community is devastated, but they
make money,” said Mr. Biden. “They make money even when a company goes
bankrupt, when workers lose their jobs.”
Earlier in the week, President Obama described Bain
and other private equity firms as a “healthy part of the free market”
filled with many ”folks who do good work.” However, he also said the
priority of private equity companies is to “maximize profits,” which is
“not always going to be good for businesses or communities or
workers.” Because of this, he said Mr. Romney’s work at Bain Capital
isn’t good preparation for the presidency.
“If your main argument for how to grow the economy is, ‘I knew how to
make a lot of money for investors,’ then you are missing what this job
is about,” President Obama said. “It doesn’t mean you weren’t good at
private equity. But that’s not what my job is as president. My job is to
take into account everybody, not just some.”
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