Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., attacked Mitt Romney over his Bain Capital career rather than answer a question about President Obama’s decision to make a former Bain & Company consultant the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
“Mitt Romney is running for president of the United States and hanging his record at Bain as the reason that voters should elect him,” Wasserman Schultz, who chairs the Democratic National Committee, told MSNBC host Alex Wagner. “So his record, his role as the CEO at Bain Capital — in which, even his partner acknowledged that he never looked at their role as job creation but rather as creating wealth for their investors . . . [is what he should] be held accountable for.”
Wagner didn’t ask about Romney, though. “In opening up Romney’s record at Bain are you at all concerned about the fact that President Obama has just named as his acting director at OMB a former Bain [consultant]?” Wagner asked.
The Washington Examiner reported yesterday that Obama had chosen Jeffrey Zients, who worked at Bain & Company from 1988 to 1990, to lead OMB. The attacks on Romney have focused on his work at Bain Capital, which he founded with Bain & Company colleagues in 1984. Romney returned to Bain & Company in 1991, about six months after Zients left Bain & Company.
