Why did Romney just give top staff $200,000 raise?

[skip fox]

What does this say? That the morale of those in his campaign has dropped through the floor and that he's trying to prop it back up (pathetically) the only why he knows how??


That's the only answer I can come up with.

[lame54]

1. Obviously - because they are worth it...

[1-Old-Man]

2. Because money Romney lends to his own campaign turn into bad debt, which is deductible

First off he's just buying people. That is what Mitt Romney does, he buys people. But in the end Romney will loot his own campaign fund, be sure of that.

[monmouth]

4. A bribe is still a bribe by any other name...n/t

[Laurajr]

5. in his mind

money fixes everything and anything can be bought

[Incitatus]

6. So the rats won't jump ship. Nt

[KeepItReal]

7. If he didn't give his staff bonuses, they would take their talents elsewhere

- at least that what his fellow Wall Streeters say when asked why they continued to give exorbitant bonuses to folks whose institutions were part of the financial meltdown.

[Tanuki]

8. To keep them all from pulling a Tim Pawlenty,

and leaping off the deck of an obviously sinking ship?

[louis-t]

9. "Lovely parting gifts..."

[robinlynne]

10. so they wont jump ship like the vp of the campaign did.

[Blue Owl]

11. For Mitt -- that's just a little walkin-around money

n/t

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

12. I suspect...

It has something to do with their signing a Non-Disclosure Agreement...

[bongbong]

13. Four possible answers

As others responders have hinted, this really can only be one of these:

1) hush money
2) don't jump the ship money
3) tax mumbo jumbo (to evade taxes in some "legal" fashion)
4) rewards for incompetence (since that's pretty much the only thing repigs get rewards for)