BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – A defiant Mitt Romney brushed aside more calls for the release of his tax returns on Wednesday and instead accused President Barack Obama of protecting his job at the expense of millions of unemployed Americans.

Intensifying his attacks as Obama focused on official meetings in Washington, the Republican presidential candidate told an overflowing Ohio crowd that the Democrat hasn’t met with his jobs council in more than six months. In that time, however, Romney says Obama held 100 fundraisers.

“His priority is not creating jobs for you,” Romney declared in Bowling Green. “His priority is trying to keep his own job. And that’s why he’s going to lose it.”