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A day after the Obama campaign released an ad attacking Mitt Romneyas business record, a super PAC supporting the presidentas reelection unveiled a similar ad Tuesday focusing on the same Missouri steel company and running in four of the same states. But the 30-second spot produced by Priorities USA Action relies, in part, on the dubious assertion that Bain Capital always turned a profit, no matter what happened to the businesses in which it invested.
      
  
The Obama campaign Monday unleashed its first ad attacking Mitt Romneyas record as Bain Capital executive. The two-minute ad — to begin running in the key battleground states of Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Virginia — is coupled with a six-minute video featuring the story of GST Steel, a 105-year-old steel mill in Kansas City, Missouri that Bain purchased in 1993, saddled with debt, and shuttered eight years later after Romney and his partners reaped handsome profits.
The Romney campaign on Sunday released a Motheras Day video tribute to the candidateas wife, Ann. While the four-minute video features all five Romney sons praising their motheras patience and love, in spite of their boisterousness, it does not include comments from Mitt Romney or any stories about the presumptive Republican nomineeas rambunctious behavior. The campaign is no longer highlighting Mitt Romneyas pranks, after The Washington Post reported Thursday that as a teenager Romney bullied a gay schoolmate.
Mitt Romney on Saturday is giving the commencement address at the conservative Liberty University, offering him a chance to woo social and religious conservatives who have long been skeptical of him. aIam not sure quite why, but lately Iave found myself thinking about life in four-year stretches,a he plans to say, according to several excerpts released by the Romney campaign this morning. Romney advisers said on Thursday that Romney was unlikely to dwell on the gay marriage debate
The Obama campaign plans to release a new television ad in New Hampshire this week that highlights how the resurgence of the American auto industry has helped retore economic security to middle class families in the state. The campaign, citing statistics from the Center for Automotive Research, said the auto industry supports over 23,000 jobs in New Hampshire, a full 2.7 percent of the stateas workforce.
The Massachusetts Democratic Party today filed a complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee, arguing that Senator Scott Brown abused public resources by using video shot by a government employee to promote his reelection campaign. The Globe reported last week that the video – of Brown sinking a half-court basketball shot – was recorded by his Senate communications director, during an official event, and after that employee had flown to Massachusetts on an airline ticket bought by the taxpayers.
Rick Santorum explained his late-night e-mail endorsement of Mitt Romney Tuesday, saying that he wanted the message to be athe first thing people would see in the morning.a The timing and tenor of Santorumas announcement were perceived by some political observers as a slight of Romney. aIt was a rough-and-tumble campaign,a Santorum said. aI canat say that it would have been an easy thing the next day to turn around and say, you know, aLetas just go forward.aaa
Senator Scott Brown today is starting to air the first television ad of his reelection campaign, and it focuses on a theme he pounded across the state last week: his political independence.
Billionaire George Soros, a generous Democratic donor in previous elections, is stepping up his giving in the current campaign with $2 million in contributions. The super PAC American Bridge 21st Century said Monday that Soros gave the group $1 million. A Soros spokesman told The Wall Street Journal that the investor also plans to contribute $1 million to America Votes, which helps coordinate the activities of progressive organizations throughout the country.
The Massachusetts Republican Party today called on a Democratic state representative to return thousands of dollars in campaign contributions because he appeared to have violated election finance laws by using a government employee as treasurer of his political committee. The lawmaker, Representative Mark Cusack of Braintree, refused that request but said he immediately replaced his treasurer after learning of the prohibition. aWhen he started as my treasurer, he was not a public employee,a Cusack said. He labeled it aa complete oversight.a
The Massachusetts Republican Party today tweaked Democratic congressional candidate Joseph P. Kennedy III, after he deleted an online note to constituents that gave the first outline of his views on various political issues. A Kennedy spokeswoman noted that the note had been replaced with a more robust aWhere I Standa section on the campaignas website. The exchange underscores GOP suggestions that Kennedy is a celebrity candidate, running on his famed political familyas name rather than his achievements or policy stances.
The Obama campaign slammed Mitt Romney Monday for not confronting a supporter who said during a town hall event in Cleveland that the president ashould be tried for treason.a Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, ignored the treason comment and answered her question. The Obama campaign characterized the womanas remark as an out-of-bounds attack and said Romney, though he is Obamaas political adversary, should have stood up for the president.
The Obama campaign released a new television ad Monday aimed at middle-class voters in nine swing states that strategists have identified as critical to the presidentas re-election. In a conference call with reporters this morning, Obamaas campaign manager and senior strategist said the campaign will spend $25 million rolling out the ads over the course of the month in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Nevada, New Hampshire, Iowa, North Carolina, Florida, and Colorado.
In a rare honor for a living person, the Navy plans to announce it is naming a new destroyer after Fall River native Thomas J. Hudner, 87, who earned the Medal of Honor in the Korean War for intentionally crashing his fighter plane in an attempt to save his wingman, the Navyas first black pilot. The decision, made by Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, is the culmination of a lobbying campaign championed last month by both Senators Scott P. Brown and John F. Kerry.
A day after Vice President Joe Biden offered a nuanced take on gay marriage, Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Monday left nothing to interpretation. Asked during an appearance on MSNBC whether he believes same-sex couples should be allowed to marry in the US, Duncan gave a straight answer: aYes I do.a Some political observers took the vice presidentas words Sunday as an endorsement of gay marriage, but White House and campaign officials quickly refuted that analysis.
Republican US Senator Scott Brown has reeled in an endorsement from the second Maine senator — Susan Collins. The Maine Republican, who frequently works with Brown as part of an informal caucus of New England Republicans, plans to formally endorse Brown Friday morning at his South Boston campaign headquarters.
Fall River dentist David Steinhof plans to file his intent to run today as a Republican for election the Fourth Congressional District, the seat that will be open as a result of Barney Frankas retirement, Steinhofas campaign manager said. The Republican primary field already includes Dr. Elizabeth Childs and Sean Bielat, who built his profile by challenging Frank for reelection in 2010. Democrats in the field include Joseph Kennedy III, Herb Robinson, Paul Heroux, and Jules Levine.
Ending a yearlong campaign and a weeklong farewell, former House speaker Newt Gingrich formally ended his presidential candidacy Wednesday in Arlington, Va. Repeating an earlier pledge, Gingrich said he would help presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney try to defeat President Obama. Gingrich devoted much of his exit speech to thanking his supporters, including former GOP presidential candidates Rick Perry and Herman Cain, and billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, awho single-handedly came pretty close to matching Romneyas super PAC.a
Senator Scott Brown said today that aitas sada for rival Elizabeth Warren to criticize his decision to continue insuring one of his daughters through the Obama administration health care law that he has opposed and tried to repeal. aFor her to call me a hypocrite as to how Gail and I provide for our family, itas sad,a Brown said. Warren, Brownas likely Democratic challenger this fall, never personally applied that label to the senator. But her campaign spokeswoman did Monday.
With Newt Gingrich set to officially exit the presidential race Wednesday, the Obama campaign preempted his anticipated endorsement of Mitt Romney by releasing a highlight reel of Gingrichas strongest anti-Romney statements. In the video, Gingrich calls Romney a liar and characterizes him as a corporate raider. The Romney campaign did not respond directly to the adas content but continued to accuse the president of employing political distractions to avoid discussing the economy.
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