Earlier this month, Mitt Romney released a television ad asking, “Where did all the Obama stimulus money go? Friends, donors, campaign supporters, special interest groups. … Solyndra. $500 million tax payer dollars. Bankrupt.”
The Obama campaign then responded, telling The Detroit News, “In fact, both Republican and Democratic administrations advanced Solyndra’s application, and the company was widely praised as successful and innovative both before and after receiving the Department of Energy loan guarantee.” Obama Energy Department spokesman Damien LaVera said very much the same thing almost one year ago: “The project that we supported succeeded. The facility was producing the product it said it would produce, and consumers were buying the product.”
