By JIM KUHNHENN and PHILIP ELLIOTT 07/14/12 09:50 AM ET AP
WOLFEBORO, N.H. -- Mitt Romney insists that he stepped down from his private equity firm
years earlier than federal records indicate, but President Barack Obama is more than a little skeptical
and says his Republican rival has much to explain.
Obama campaign advisers said the president, during a second straight day in tightly contested
Virginia, planned to remind voters on Saturday of the discrepancies between Securities and Exchange
Commission filings and Romney's recollection of his role at Boston-based Bain Capital.
Obama was focusing on a state that he won in 2008, a first for a Democratic nominee since 1964,
and on an issue that Romney says diverts attention from struggling economy.
A new ad from Obama's campaign repeated the charges that the firm shipped American jobs
to China and Mexico; that Romney has personal wealth in investments in Switzerland, Bermuda and
the Cayman Islands; and that as Massachusetts governor, he sent state jobs to India.
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"Mitt Romney's not the solution. He's the problem," the ads says as Romney is heard singing
"America the Beautiful."
At stake is Romney's chief contention that as a former businessman, he has the experience to create
jobs and spur a struggling economy. The Obama campaign has countered that Romney ran a firm
that pioneered the practice of sending American jobs out of the country and that his background is
an investor.
The ad was set to run in closely fought Colorado, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, New Hampshire,
Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia, and debuts as Democrats and some Republicans call for
Romney to release tax returns going back several years. Romney has said he won't go beyond
releasing his 2010 tax records and, before the November election, his 2011 taxes.
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