A Lowell-based solar technology company that received $1.5 million in state loans when Mitt Romney was governor has filed for bankruptcy, opening the presumptive Republican presidential nominee to charges of hypocrisy.
Konarka Technologies disclosed Friday that it had filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection and would fire its 80-member staff and liquidate its assets.

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$1.5 million in state loans versus $535 million from the feds... An unbalanced comparison? Of course, just like the Obama campaign's ignoring the failure of the current Massachusetts governor's losses of tens of millions of dollars to the Evergreen solar energy fiasco, never mind the 800 jobs lost. What the Globe missed in this Konarka Technologies story is the possible bankruptcy losses of up to $20 in government loan money, including from the feds. The Globe's political wish to rush to another chance to slam Romney (rightfully, maybe, in this case), the reporter fails to inform whether Kondarka was able to successfully complete federal agency contracts it received. A pretty sloppy job except for the Globe's loving application of a negative bit of psychobabble for Obama.
nice try
"Romney held press conference - at Konarka, where he announced a plan to loan $24 million from the state's renewable energy trust fund to startups with the potential to create jobs." hmmm, sounds like romney used the money for it's exact stated purpose, a rarity for a politician, and $1.5 million in designated money is a far cry from handing over $535 million to your campaign contributors who happen to also own a soon to fail solar company. at least the mass company mage it to 2012
note to obammaba campaign: take this and run with it, thrown millions on it for a ad campaign, run it into the ground, wave it like a flag!!!!! mention it at every stop, this is the key to your re-election
NewsBusters: Media Trying to Convince Themselves They've Found Romney's Solyndra http://newsbusters.org/blogs/rusty-weiss/2012/06/05/media-trying-convince-themselves-theyve-found-romneys-solyndra
Liberal MSM in the bag for O.