Bain Employees Donated to Romney, Obama

(NewsCore) - While the Obama campaign has criticized Mitt Romney as "a corporate raider" for his work at Bain Capital, that hasn't stopped some employees from giving money to President Barack Obama.

For the first nine months of 2011, Bain Capital employees gave $27,500 to Obama's re-election campaign while giving a lot more -- $74,500 -- to Romney, a cofounder of the private equity firm.

Romney is the hands-down winner when it comes to donations to super PACs, the outside political action committees that support candidates.

The pro-Romney "Restore Our Future" super PAC received $1.25 million from Bain Capital employees, while the pro-Obama super PAC "Priorities USA," received not a penny, according to campaign finance records from the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.

The Romney campaign didn't immediately return requests for comment. Romney, who worked at Bain Capital until 1999, has said he is proud of his record at Bain and helped create 100,000 jobs.

Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said the contributions to the campaign, which came from six employees, represent a small fraction of the 1.3 million Americans who donated to the president in 2011.

LaBolt used the opportunity lob another round at the GOP frontrunner, "Mitt Romney has asked Americans to elect him based on his false and shifting claim that he was a job creator when he was a corporate buyout specialist who profited off of bankrupting companies, outsourcing jobs, and laying off workers."