PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- Mitt Romney is leading the polls in New Hampshire, which puts a target on his back among his Republican peers.
But Democrats are speaking out against the former Governor of Massachusetts as well. Saturday afternoon, the Maine Democratic Party held a news conference at the Eastland Hotel in Portland. The key speaker was a man named Randy Johnson.
Johnson, along with 250 others, was laid off when the plant where he worked was bought by Bain Capital, a company owned by Mitt Romney. He says Romney's record isn't one of creating jobs, but of destroying them.
"So there's going to be more of this, and I know Romney is saying there's going to be more of this, but that's because it's real," Johnson, a member of the United Steelworkers Union, said. "It's a platform for everybody to speak up. These are not just thoughts. There are real jobs there were lost and the only benefit I get is that people get to make a wise and educated decision."
Last month on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Romney said, "We invested in over 100 different businesses, and in those businesses, many were successful, added lots and lots of jobs. Some were not successful. That is the nature of free enterprise."
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