Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign stop at Bun's Restaurant, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012, in Delaware, Ohio.
Jay LaPrete, Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla. — Mitt Romney's presidential campaign is challenging criticism from U.S. automakers over campaign ads that claim General Motors and Chrysler are adding jobs in China at the expense of Ohio.
Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said Wednesday, quote: "Their comments don't refute anything in our ad." Romney ads on TV and radio repeat a version of a claim Romney made in a campaign speech last week: that Chrysler is moving Jeep production to China.
The ads are airing in Toledo, where the auto industry employs thousands.
On Tuesday, Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne emailed employees to restate that, quote, "Jeep production will not be moved from the United States to China." General Motors, mentioned in a Romney radio ad, released a statement calling the campaign "some parallel universe."
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Mitt took an internet rumor and tried to make an issue of it. Trouble was, the rumor was untrue and denied by the Jeep people themselves.
Oh the irony.
Coming for the guy who championed and pioneered off-shoring, out-sourcing to Communist China.
Now, only to be called in the latest lie by the Auto Industry itself.
Mitt's a car guy. He knows more about what these car companies do than the people who run them. If you think we're sick of this campaign just think how the people in Ohio feel.