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MoveOn.org Political Action
"Mitt Romney is Mr. 1%" +
:30 ad announced Dec. 2, 2011 to run for one week on CNN and MSNBC in
Iowa.
Male Announcer: According to the
publisher of New Hampshire's Union Leader, which Republican candidate
represents the 1%?
Hint: he calls himself unemployed while making plans to quadruple
the size of his $12 million beach house. He thinks corporations
are people, and as head of a multimillion dollar firm he shipped good
America jobs overseas and cut thousands more.
He's Mitt Romney or, as voters are starting to call him, Mr. 1%.
Female Announcer:
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Notes: According
to the press release:
The ad quotes the
publisher of the influential and conservative newspaper the Union
Leader stating that Mitt Romney represents the 1%. The ad also shows
how Romney once said that he was unemployed around the same time he was
making plans to expand his $12 million beachfront house.
"It's not
often that MoveOn and the publisher of the Union Leader agree," said
Justin Ruben, Executive Director of MoveOn.org. "Millionaire Mitt
Romney is Mr. 1%, and the epitome of corporate greed run amok. A former
CEO, Romney made his millions by buying up companies, cutting thousands
of jobs, and then turning around and reaping the profits. Iowa voters
deserve to know the truth. Romney has a proven record of governing for
and by the corporations, and there is no doubt that he represents the
1%.”