Mitt Romney co-founded 
Bain Capital. The corporation took part in many “hostile takeovers,” a practice that involves buying a company in order to simply lay off the workers, close the company and sell it for spare parts.
Occupy Tampa and the Tampa Bay Regional General Assembly passed through consensus a resolution to send a national call to action, on the day Mitt Romney accepts the nomination, to shut down Bain Capital.
Bain Capital Companies:
- Outback Steakhouse
- Carrabba’s Italian Grill
- Bonefish Grill
- Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar
- Roy’s Hawaiian Fusion Cuisine
- Burlington Coat Factory
- Clear Channel Communications
- Dunkin’ Donuts
- Baskin Robbins
- Gymboree
- Hospital Corporation of America
- Michael’s Craft Store
- Toys’R’Us
- Staples
- The Princeton Review
- Work ‘N Gear
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Peggy says:
I can see it already. This is going to backfire on you in a really bad way because now all off these Bain Capital businesses will bring in more revenue.
I myself shop/eat at 7 or 8 of these places and now I will have to step it up thanks to the SEIU.
Thanks for the headup with the list of Bain Companies.
They will appreciate my added patronage!
admin says:
So you’re saying it will backfire because —
I don’t understand …
–Tristan
Brian J. Umholtz says:
It will backfire because ALL of these companies would be gone and the jobs would then have to be ‘re-created’ by your savior if not for this company. Dumbass.
tristan says:
I doubt we’ll actually “shut them down.” But, take the restaraunts for example, the people profiting off of the money of the customers and the labor or the workers don’t work at those restaraunts. They live a thousand miles away. They try to get as much work out of people as they can while paying them as little as they can. That’s why the restaraunts owned by Bain recently lobbied the Florida legislature to reduce minimum wage from $6something to $2something. I’d love to shut down Outback Steakhouse. Perhaps we could fill the void with restaraunts owned by the people who actually make those restaraunts happen, the employees, locally
CB says:
The people profiting off of the customers are waiters and waitresses that work on a lower pay scale and rely on tips, that those like you will prevent them from EARNING – you idiot!
Ellen says:
As a starting point, I’d like to say that I hate Bain Capital.
I hate them because they were initally funded by blood money from murderers in El Salvador who were given over a Billion dollars by US taxpayers to fight Communism by killing six Jesuit Priest and raping and murdering four US nuns along with 85 thousand civilians.
That’s right. US taxpayers paid for the murder of priests and nuns and 85 thousand innocent people in El Salvador. There was so much US taxpayer money left over that the small group of extremely rich families in El Salvador who got all our money and ordered the killings had plenty to invest in Bain Capital. These scum of the earth provided 40 percent of the inital funding for Bain. Please read the story on the Huffington Post.
As for your statements about Bain owing the companies listed, the companies listed are not “owned” by Bain Capital. Bain investors invested money in them. Bain does NOT run or manage these companies. Their investors may profit from them but that is not the same thing as owning them. They lent them money.
I haven’t investigated all these companies but you should before calling for a boycott or shut down. For all you know the majority stockholders may be good and decent people who don’t deserve this action against them.
Owners come to firms like Bain to get needed funding as was the case with Staples. Bain didn’t take them over. Bain financed them. Bain did destroy many other companies.
Ellen says:
Please do not list my full name on this board.