Mitt Romney: My Entire Life Spent 'Helping Women Through The Glass Ceiling' (VIDEO)

[highplainsdem]

Source: Huffington Post

Footage of Mitt Romney touting how his "entire life has been one of working with women and helping women through the glass ceiling," was released Thursday by Buzzfeed. Clipped from Romney's 1994 debate with the late Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, the video shows Romney appearing to take credit for the number of women in leadership positions at Bain & Co., a consulting firm that Romney had left a decade earlier, in 1984, to found the private equity firm Bain Capital Partners.

"As chief executive officer of Bain & Co., the highest-paid person at our firm was a woman, and the chairman of the board was a woman," Romney says in the video. "The chief financial officer at my firm, [Bain Capital Partners], is a woman."

Romney briefly returned to Bain & Co. in 1990 to assist with financial difficulties, but returned to Bain Capital in 1992. The first female chairman of Bain & Co., Orit Gadiesh, wasn't appointed until the following year.

The Republican presidential nominee also failed to mention the fact that as of 1994, Bain Capital had yet to invite any women into its lucrative partnership arrangement. The firm would not add any women to that roster until after Romney left in 1999. And at the time, only nine of the 95 vice presidents at the firm were women. None were minorities. Romney offered the Boston Globe the dubious explanation that women and minorities were "not attracted" to jobs in private equity.

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Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/18/mitt-romney-women-bain_n_1980919.html

[jtuck004]

1. Would someone please send a link when that cartoon gets published? n/t

[sarge43]

3. Did he say which way through the glass ceiling? n/t

[Demeter]

4. Face first, and downwards

Natch

[sarge43]

7. So they can get home to cook dinner. n/t

[valerief]

13. And greet the kiddies just coming home from school at 5. nt

[tomm2thumbs]

5. omg, your post cracked me up

Oh, it's coming I'm sure. The first thing I thought of was that lady running out the building in the movie 'Earthquake' with shards all over her face, badly acting and spinning around.

This is going to be pretty bad cartoon material for Mitt

[DreamGypsy]

9. Now, ladies, back where you belong.

I can't draw, but...

The cartoon: Mitt, standing in a room with 'ylnO neM' visible through the glass door, stuffing binders full of women through the shattered glass aperture in the floor.


One person's ceiling is another person's floor.

[maxsolomon]

2. His entire life has been spent spreading bullshit

Used Car Salesmen look ethical next to him.

[valerief]

14. At least used car salesmen have a product to sell. He's a charlatan. nt

[frazzled]

6. What is his plan for getting 150,000,000 US women through the glass ceiling, though?

This whole discussion is such utter bull. Who cares how many women he hired (or didn't) at Bain or in his MA administration? This is not about the personal kindness of individuals. It's about institutional policy of the United States Government—whether or not it will support equal protection of women, and not just have an agenda that says "hope for some kind multimillionaire to hire you."

Romney's argument is the total equivalent of the "lots of my friends are black (or gay)" defense. It's irrelevant.

[asjr]

8. That is one leopard who can really change his spots.

[graegoyle]

10. Mitt Romney: My Entire Life Spent 'Helping Women Through The Glass Ceiling

*push*

[City Lights]

11. He's so full of shit it's oozing out his ears.

[xxqqqzme]

12. his ENTIRE life?

Really?

No hyperbole there!

[beac]

18. And yet, when he was 55 years old, he didn't know a SINGLE

"qualified" woman to approach to be in his cabinet so he had to pick some out of a binder.

And that turns out to be a lie (SHOCKING!) b/c he actually picked 5 of the 8 b/c they'd donated to his campaign. Guess binders full of money is the way to slice through the glass ceiling in Mitt's world.

[Hubert Flottz]

15. Like the ones in the sweat shops in China.

What a lying POS!

[SacoMaine61]

16. I'm exhausted by the constant bombardment of BS

[Myrina]

17. Probably more like

.. Christopher Walken's corporate tool "Max Shrek" helping secretary Selena Kyle out a skyscraper window in the Batman flick from the 80's ...

[NYtoBush-Drop Dead]

19. more like this bully probably

pushed women through a glass window.

[bucolic_frolic]

20. Mitt's really got a case on himself

he never does anything wrong! Squeaky clean!

and delusional

[L0oniX]

21. LMFAO Joe Biden style. n/t

[NutmegYankee]

22. He has helped them through the glass ceiling!

He threw them out a window and they fell THROUGH the glass foyer ceiling below.