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Enrique

(27,461 posts)
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 08:37 PM Jul 2012

Romney in 2002: I flew back to Massachussetts for business meetings

people don't normally fly across the country to attend meetings at companies they don't work for.

What I'm interested in is the news outlets that are supporting Romney's preposterous position that even though he was the owner and president and CEO, he no longer worked there.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/12/mitt-romney-bain-departure_n_1669006.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

Romney has consistently insisted that he was too busy organizing the 2002 Winter Olympics to take part in Bain business between 1999 and that event. But in the testimony, which was provided to The Huffington Post, Romney noted that he regularly traveled back to Massachusetts. "[T]here were a number of social trips and business trips that brought me back to Massachusetts, board meetings, Thanksgiving and so forth," he said.

(...)

(quote from Romney's lawyer: Now while all that was going on, very much in the public eye, what happened to his private and public ties to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts? And the answer is they continued unabated just as they had."
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Romney in 2002: I flew back to Massachussetts for business meetings (Original Post) Enrique Jul 2012 OP
what business would that be, Mitt??? You have no other business... and you weren't in Bermuda. n/t progressivebydesign Jul 2012 #1
the buck stops here - hollysmom Jul 2012 #2
Just like the clown Bush Politicalboi Jul 2012 #3
Bush studied in a group hollysmom Jul 2012 #4

hollysmom

(5,946 posts)
2. the buck stops here -
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 08:39 PM
Jul 2012

does this mean if he is president, he will not be responsible for anything in the country?

You can't get paid and have your name on the top if you do not take responsibility, otherwise, he owes all those companies that Bain was closing refunds of his salary since he did no work. Oh wait, he probably never did work.

 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
3. Just like the clown Bush
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 08:50 PM
Jul 2012

They both probably never really "worked" a day in their lives. They always had money even if they fucked up. Wouldn't surprise me if both Bush and Rmoney's daddies paid for passing grades at college for their nitwit sons.

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hollysmom

(5,946 posts)
4. Bush studied in a group
Thu Jul 12, 2012, 08:56 PM
Jul 2012

and the group shared the grade, there was no way he could make it though college if it didn't work that way.

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