Debbie Wasserman Shultz’s head just exploded. Democrats, and Republicans presidential contenders, tried to use Mitt Romney’s job at Bain Capital against him. Now the facts are coming out that pretty much will end the attacks from Democrats. Democrats received more money from Bain Capital, including Obama.
The Hill reports:
Democrats have accepted more political donations than Republicans from executives at Bain Capital, complicating the left’s plan to attack Mitt Romney for his record at the private equity firm.
It looks like Bain gave Democrats three times the amount of cash they gave Republicans…
During the last three election cycles, Bain employees have given Democratic candidates and party committees more than $1.2 million. The vast majority of that sum came from senior executives.
Republican candidates and party committees raised over $480,000 from senior Bain executives during that time period.
The Hill busts two liberal myths in this article. Democrats are the Wall Street/Corporate Whores we Conservatives continue to point out…
…But President Obama received a sizable share as well. He has accepted more than $80,000 from Bain employees since the beginning of 2007. Bain Capital employees gave $27,500 to Obama during the first three quarters of 2011.
Obama does not accept money from lobbyists, but does accept donations from Wall Street executives. Campaign finance records show that Democrats collect more money from Wall Street than does the GOP.
But Obama does hire lobbyists and has taken hundreds of millions from special interests groups who hire lobbyists.
[...] the taxpayer’s money, like Obama did with Solyndra. Doesn’t Axelrod know that Bain gave three times more campaign cash to the DNC than the RNC? “Where you buy a company, load it down with debt, strip it down, let it [...]