Solyndra
FREMONT, CA - MAY 31: Repubican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during news conference in front the shuttered Solyndra solar power company's manufacturing facility May 31, 2012 in Fremont, California. The company filed for bankruptcy in 2011 after receiving $535 million in federal loan money.
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Let me tell you that I have heard enough about Evergreen -- or Solyndra for that matter. We are not always going to score. But we are never going to score if we don’t get in the game ... Whether we like it or not, there are going to be winners and losers when it comes to clean energy in the 21st century ... . Make no mistake about it: I want Massachusetts to be a winner.
Romney clinches nomination, attacks Obama on Solyndra
It’s pretty clear. You can sum it up in two words, Keystone or SolyndraMore quotes »
Newsday's coverage
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Dems attack Romney at Mass. Statehouse
other Democrats spoke. Curious tourists and children on school field trips stopped to watch the political spectacle unfold." Solyndra , Solyndra," they shouted at Axelrod, a reference to the California green energy firm that received $535 million in loan guarantees Read more »
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Obama team to focus on Romney's record in Mass.
campaign, in turn, was bringing attention to failed stimulus projects and federal money given to green-energy companies like Solyndra . The solar company received hundreds of millions of dollars from Obama's administration only to go bankrupt. Read more »
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Pataki slaps Obama ahead of Albany visit
money for every $3 of private investment. Several times, the Republican raised the issue of the Obama administration loan given to Solyndra , a failed clean-energy company."We did pretty much the opposite of what President Obama did," Pataki said. "We didn't Read more »
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MacGillis: 'Playing politics' isn't a game
that "politics triumphed over science." Meanwhile, Republican groups are running ads hammering President Barack Obama on Solyndra , calling it a "government fiasco infused with politics at every level." Congressional Republicans have charged Obama with "playing Read more »
Around the web
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MICHAEL WALSH: “Solyndra! Solyndra!” “Axelrod is a charter member of Obama’s Chicago mafia, the…
WALSH: “Solyndra! Solyndra!” “Axelrod is a charter member of Obama’s Chicago mafia, the man behind the curtain, and to send him out where he could be humiliated was a dreadful blunder. What, Bill Clinton wasn’t available? Oh, wait . . . The Romney camp has 6/1/12 from Instapundit Read more »
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The Weekly Wrap
to make them better, cautioned against overinterpreting polls, disproved the "Obama wasn't vetted" meme, and gaped at Romney on Solyndra. The right continued to attempt to rehabilitate its record on civil rights, a new account of the Cato-Koch battle emerged, 6/1/12 from Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Dish Read more »
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Adieu, green revolution
were even remotely the case.” Of course, this was before the White House discovered that its “investments” in companies like Solyndra were little better than shoveling taxpayer dollars into an industrial mulcher. So it shouldn’t surprise anyone that Gibbs 6/1/12 from New York Post Read more »
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On Trail, Romney Avoids Attack on a Likable Obama
abroad, taken his cues from the social democrats of Europe and wasted hundreds of millions in stimulus dollars on companies like Solyndra. But there is one more thing Mr. Romney regularly reminds voters about the president: “He’s a nice guy.” Those were Mr. 6/1/12 from The New York Times Read more »
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Political Ads 2012: A Reason They All Look Alike
saying, "Obama invested our tax dollars in Solyndra [and] lost half a billion." No surprise here. Republican strategists see Solyndra as a ripe target. But another shot at the same target earlier this year came from Crossroads GPS, a tax-exempt organization 6/1/12 from Georgia Public Broadcasting Read more »
