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Sununu’s Out-of-this-World Outsourcing Claim

Posted on July 17, 2012

John Sununu claimed President Obama “outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians.” But it was President Bush who set NASA on a path eight years ago to retire the Space Shuttle and rely on the Russians for space travel. “[Bush] Administration policy is to retire …
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Sununu Misfires on Bain ‘Jobs’ Claim

Posted on May 25, 2012

John H. Sununu, a top surrogate for Mitt Romney, wrongly claimed Bain Capital was “able to save jobs … about 80 percent of the time” at companies in which it had invested. Sununu was misreading or misrepresenting a Bain statement on revenues, not jobs. Sununu, a former governor of New …
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