CALL ME SNAKE

Who is labor’s greatest champion? Perhaps you might pick someone like Cesar Chavez, the former head of the United Farm Works who died 15 years ago. But if you picked Chavez, you’d be wrong for labor’s true greatest champion is none other than Mitt Romney. Why can I be so confident? Because Romney said so. Campaigning in Michigan, he presented himself as the greatest friend labor’s ever had, based on his experience at Bain Capital, where he was a job-creating machine the likes of which we’ve never seen before or since. But an article in Sunday’s Boston Globe challenged that assertion. While some of the compaies that Romney promoted in his role at Bain did grow and create jobs, other companies he advised shut down factories and laid of workers. Employment and the livelihood of workers was the last thing on Romney’s mind. He only cared about one thing–making money for Bain’s investors–and in that area he excelled. And that’s the one thing about the Zelig-like Romney (did you see him in the picture with Martin Luther King?) that you can bank on.