Vermont Democratic Party

For Immediate Release
1/9/12
Contact: Jesse Bragg
 
 

VDP Chair Perkinson and Randy Johnson Expose Romney’s Real Jobs Record

 
SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT- This morning, Vermont Democratic Party Chair Jake Perkinson welcomed Randy Johnson to speak in South Burlington at the IBEW/Building Trades office.  Johnson was an employee with American Pad and Paper when the company was bought by Bain Capital while under the direction of current GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney.  Johnson was laid off from AMPAD, along with hundreds of his fellow employees, while Bain Capital made $100 million off the company.  On the campaign trail, Romney touts his business experience and claims that he created 100,000 jobs while at Bain.  As our neighbors in New Hampshire prepare to vote in tomorrow’s primary, Johnson has been traveling throughout New England in the past week to tell the real story about Mitt Romney’s record on jobs.
 
“At American Pad and Paper, Mitt Romney eliminated good, full time industrial jobs, where people had been working for decades in the kind of jobs that helped build and sustain the American economy,” said Randy Johnson, one of hundreds of employees laid off by Romney at the AMPAD plant.  “Meanwhile, Romney touts his record of job creation at Staples and Dominos, but most of the positions created were part-time, low wage jobs with no benefits: certainly not jobs that could support a family.  Mitt Romney claims that he has a long record of job creation, but I think he should be clear about which kind of jobs he created.”
 
“If Romney wants to be the ‘CEO’ of the United States, he needs to be honest about how he executed his brutal plan of downsizing as the head of Bain Capital: where he put profits before people, left hardworking Americans without jobs, and had a devastating impact on families and communities across the country,” said Jake Perkinson, Vermont Democratic Party Chair. “The numerous Vermont Republican leaders who have endorsed Romney should explain to working Vermonters why they support him, given what we know about his real jobs record at Bain Capital.”
 
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