Stemberg Defends Romney on Bain as Fish Skeptical (Transcript)

A top surrogate to Mitt Romney, Staples Inc. founder Tom Stemberg, said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s "Political Capital," airing this weekend, that making money -- rather than creating jobs -- was the primary goal of the presumed Republican Party presidential nominee when he ran Bain Capital LLC and that Romney "acted responsibly" as chief executive officer of the private-equity firm. Stemberg appeared with a top backer of President Barack Obama, Lawrence Fish, the former chief executive officer of Citizens Financial Group Inc., who questioned Romney’s record.

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