Romney Says 'No Salary' if President

[Kadie]

AP
Romney Says 'No Salary' if President
Tuesday May 29, 12:14 pm ET
By Glen Johnson, Associated Press Writer
Romney Pledges Salary to Charity if Elected President


DOVER, N.H. (AP) -- Republican Mitt Romney, conceding that his business career helped him make more money than he expected, said Tuesday he would likely decline a salary as president and instead donate the money -- and more -- to charity.

During a question-and-answer session with Liberty Mutual employees, Romney said that despite his personal wealth -- his assets likely will total $190 million to $250 million -- he has committed himself to public service, from head of the 2002 Winter Olympics to one-term governor of Massachusetts.

"When I got started, I went to school and I never anticipated that I'd be as financially successful as I was, and then my business went far better than I expected it would," Romney, a former venture capitalist, told a woman who asked him how the country's political system could be corrected if most of the presidential candidates are millionaires.

Romney's assets makes him the wealthiest of all the presidential candidates, Democratic or Republican.

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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070529/romney_wealth.html?.v=1

[Demeter]

1. Now, If He Said "No Cronies", I'd Consider Him!

What a cheap trick.

[Double T]

2. The last thing this country needs is another filthy rich guy as president..........

specially a rethug.

[Beelzebud]

3. Coming from a man who will spend tens of millions of dollars campaigning.

Romney is as phony as they come.

[Norquist Nemesis]

4. He's sooo transparent

BFD. Is he going to commit his VP to the same standard? What about after his term would be over?

That's a dumb, shallow campaign "promise". But, it probably got a standing ovation completely with fainting fans so overcome by his presence!

[Philosoraptor]

5. How bout' he pays us all 10,000 bucks?

[Kadie]

7. Would 10,000 be enough?

:shrug:

[LSK]

10. well considering we all owe over 27k in national debt

No.

[acmavm]

6. He's still no bargain.

[PCIntern]

8. I'm voting for HIM!

That's it...I'm on board. What a relief that I won't have to listen to all the bullshit issues for the next year and a half like the war, the economy, starvation, balnced budget, constitutionality of the executive branch...all those tedious things which even my idol David Brooks doesn't like to deal with.

thanks, Governor...

And his wife is a HOT BABE! I know this b/c he himself said it. She's a real MILF!

What a package!

:sarcasm: just in case...always a newbie around here to jump down my throat...

[LSK]

9. yes that 200k per year is the reason for our debt

:sarcasm:

[SammyWinstonJack]

20. Isn't it 400k and george hasn't been worth it.

[Frank Cannon]

23. Yep, George doubled his own salary when he went into office

That's "conservatism" for ya.

[DS1]

27. No, congress doubled it years before

[Frank Cannon]

35. Oh, so we have Clenis to blame for this

That figures.

[bunkerbuster1]

11. Salary is such a teensy part of the expense for our Imperial Preznit...

What a joke.

Go hunt some varmints, Mitt. There's a good lad.

[BurtWorm]

12. Attention whore!

:hide:

[ejbr]

13. I would congratulate him on this announcement, but...

in a week he will be talking about doubling the salary of the president once he gets into office. You know, the ole' flip flop.

[in_cog_ni_to]

14. He's the wealthiest candidate running. Why would a pocket change salary help him anyway? What

a loser. BIG FUCKING DEAL! :eyes: And this is suppose to mean something? What? I doubt this will sit very well with unemployed middle America. He has so much freakin' money he can give up $200,000??? while middle America is starving, living pay check to pay check, trying to put gas in their cars and feed their families? Propaganda bullshit.

[RedStateShame]

15. I'm sure he's already been bought off at a far greater price, anyway.

[Killarney]

16. He did the same thing as governor

But not taking a salary from the State of Massachusetts didn't help him any. He still did a God-awful job. Lost businesses, lost population, lost jobs, big dig, etc. He told us that he would use his business skills that made him a gazillionaire and bring all these huge companies and thousands of jobs to Mass. He didn't do jack shit. All he did was travel the country signing his book about the Olympics and pimp Bush.

[Skidmore]

17. SOB is trying to buy the presidency.

[kittykitty]

18. What? a Mormon charity? n/t

[Hubert Flottz]

19. How about he pays for the War In Iraq?

His friends caused it!

[unpossibles]

21. As the richest candidate, how come we never hear about his haircuts or house, etc.?

Oh right. never mind.

[ToeBot]

22. Oh boy, that's going to cancel out the National Debt!! n/t

[bamacrat]

24. Somebody is desperate.

[Missy M]

25. How about he also pays for all the trips on Air Force One....

his helicopter rides, rent for the White House, rent for the Oval Office, rent for the use of Camp David, then I might be impressed. Otherwise, big deal!!!

[sallyseven]

26. He did that in Mass.

No salary so he started running for president 1 year after he became governor. He is a compulsive lier and will not be a good president. He has a bigger ego than rove or bush. All the things in his add are false. Be careful and very afraid folks.

[DS1]

28. 190 million?

Jesus Christ. Is that more loaded than even Cheney?

[andykef]

29. Smart Move

Romney is the one to watch. He is the favorite of the Bush brothers.
Slick and smooth he could be the marketing man's dream. Watch for NBC / General Electric , Fox and the other media whores packaging him over the coming months. The GOP love a vacant suit and you can't get more vacant than Romney.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

30. Yeah let's make sure only people who can AFFORD to give up their salary can be president

Mitt Popeil is an asshole.

[Cha]

31. Is the fucker, also,going

to get us out of the trillions of $$$$$$$$$$$ in debt that the bushits threw us into?

[LynneSin]

32. That's good, we can use your $300k salary to help pay for the multi-billion dollar war

:eyes:

[Swamp Rat]

33. I prefer "no Romney" and "no republicans" n/t

[pepperbear]

34. of course, he gets his hair cut at ye olde barbershop for $5. n/t

[Rosemary2205]

36. Now I don't trust him twice as much as I didn't trust him before.

How many times does one guy have to be caught deliberately misleading people before we write them off?