Feb 17, 2012
DNC Video: Sen. McCain Refers to Romney Bailout as "National Disgrace"
In a new video released by the DNC today, footage can be seen of Arizona's own Senator John McCain criticizing the $1.3 billion federal bailout of Mitt Romney's 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, referring to it as a "pork-barrel project" and a "national disgrace."
Mitt Romney has said on the campaign trail that he was responsible for saving the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. However, several people involved in the Games have said he exaggerated his role and overstated his involvement.
In addition to exaggerating his impact on the games, Mitt Romney also fails to acknowledge the $1.3 billion federal bailout--the largest for any Olympics then--that he secured and bragged about at the time, while railing against similar federal spending on the campaign trail today.
Just as Mitt Romney has failed to come clean about what he actually did in the private sector as a corporate raider, there are even more tall tales and hypocrisy when it comes to the Olympics. Mitt Romney will say anything to win, and as Sen. McCain points out, when it comes to the Olympics he didn't save the games--the taxpayers did.
