Courtesy Skyline Outdoor Advertising Feb, 24, 2012-Progress Michigan's mobile billboard makes the rounds near Ford Field coinciding with Mitt Romney's speech to the Detroit Economic Club.

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PRESS RELEASES from Progress Michigan

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Thursday, February 16, 2012
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David Holtz

LANSING, MI—Citizens group Progress Michigan today unveiled a new grassroots campaign aimed at Mitt Romney’s opposition to the successful rescue of the Michigan auto industry.  The campaign features a new online video, website, petition drive and stickers with the “Let Romney Go Bankrupt” message.
 
“When Michigan was on the brink, Mitt Romney threw us under the bus.  To this day he stands by a position that industry experts have described as reckless, dishonest and is dangerous,” said David Holtz, Executive Director of Progress Michigan. “It’s extremely important that while Michigan is the focus of national attention, we send a strong message that rejects the dangerous Romney auto policy and says loudly and clearly that Michigan’s auto industry counts.”
 
The short video recalls Romney’s 2008 wildly inaccurate prediction that the auto rescue would mean the end of the auto industry and documents the industry’s comeback in brief snippets while inviting viewers to go to www.letromneygobankrupt.com where they can sign a petition to Romney, view the video and get a sticker. The campaign’s name was taken from an op-ed by former Gov. Jennifer Granholm last year that challenged Romney’s position on the rescue issue.  As recently as this week, Romney has defended his opposition to the auto rescue in an opinion piece and while campaigning in Michigan.
 
“We will be aggressively promoting Let Romney Go Bankrupt until we are sure he and others get the message that it’s Romney’s ideas about the auto industry that should go bankrupt, not Detroit,” said Holtz.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
Thursday, February 23, 2012
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David Holtz

LANSING, MI—Citizens group Progress Michigan said today it will feature a giant mobile billboard to protest Mitt Romney’s opposition to the auto rescue and to welcome Michiganders who will gather for a rally Friday near Ford Field before Romney’s scheduled speech to the Detroit Economic Club.
 
The billboard will carry the “Let Romney Go Bankrupt” message the group has been promoting through an online petition, video and through bumper stickers.  The billboard presence coincides with a rooftop “Rally to Tell Mitt Romney:  Don’t Bet Against Michigan” planned for 9am-11:30am Friday at the Gem & Century Theater Parking Garage, top deck, located at the intersection of Brush & Beacon Streets.
 
“The Wall Street CEO ideology of Mitt Romney that opposes the auto rescue but supports big bank bailouts is dangerous for Michigan families,” said David Holtz, Executive Director of Progress Michigan. “It’s important we send a strong message that Michigan’s auto industry counts.  And when it counted most, Mitt Romney threw us under the bus.”
 
The billboard will circle the Gem Theater rally site and then Ford Field during Romney’s speech.
 
Progress Michigan has also produced a video recalling Romney’s 2008 wildly inaccurate prediction that the auto rescue would mean the end of the auto industry. The video documents the industry’s comeback in brief snippets while inviting viewers to go to www.letromneygobankrupt.com where they can sign a petition to Romney, view the video and get a sticker.