~ "Story about Romney Searching for Business Partners Lost Daughter"~

~ "Story about Romney Searching for Business Partners Lost Daughter"~

Posted by Mortis (#2) 386 days ago (http://www.snopes.com)

`I Submitted This cause its a positive good read for all.
***Heads Up...If You Plan on voting for Obama or not voting at all and helping Obama win....***Thats Fine...If You have something intelligent & "positive to contribute" to ***this submission...Please do...But..I will not have anyone Cr@ping on my Submission with stupid/Silly stuff....I Take this next election very seriously....Thanks.`

Snopes.com: TRUE

"In July 1996, the 14-year-old daughter of Robert Gay, a partner at
Bain Capital, had disappeared. She had attended a rave party in New
York City and gotten high on ecstasy. Three days later, her
distraught father had no idea where she was.

Romney took immediate action. He closed down the entire firm and
asked all 30 partners and employees to fly to New York to help find
Gay's daughter. Romney set up a command center at the LaGuardia
Marriott and hired a private detective firm to assist with the search.
He established a toll-free number for tips, coordinating the effort
with the NYPD, and went through his Rolodex and called everyone Bain
did business with in New York, and asked them to help find his
friend's missing daughter.

Romney's accountants at Price Waterhouse Cooper put up posters on
street poles, while cashiers at a pharmacy owned by Bain put fliers in
the bag of every shopper. Romney and the other Bain employees scoured
every part of New York and talked with everyone they could....More"...

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Written by Mortis (#2)
387 days ago

`A nice read....`

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Written by 12th_Man (#3)
387 days ago

Good submit. Thanks Mort!

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Written by Mortis (#2)
387 days ago

`Thank You for reading the story Sir...`

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Written by 12th_Man (#3)
386 days ago

You're welcome. It says a lot about who Romney is and that's important.

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Written by Mortis (#2)
386 days ago

`Yes it does 12th_Man...In this world.... no Man/Women is perfect...But we all `learn and grow` and learn to be better in these dire times.....for ourselves and Our Country.`

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Written by Pernicious (#1)
386 days ago

Top Ten List of Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Mitt Romney:

10. In 1999, when Mitt Romney was offered the job as president of the Salt Lake Olympic Committee a little over a month after the former IOC president stepped down, he really didn’t want to take the job. He had no experience with sports management, business was booming at Bain Capital, and he was perfectly happy with living in Massachusetts. It took some serious nudging from his wife Ann to convince him to take the job.

9. In 1984, while Mitt Romney was the bishop, or lay minister, of the Belmont congregation of the LDS church, their beautiful new church building became the target of an arsonist who had also targeted several other Mormon meetinghouses. Turning to other religious groups in the area, Romney told them an attack on any church was an attack on all churches and asked for their support. Seven churches offered to share their buildings with the Mormons. Several churches held fundraisers to help with the reconstruction. The city of Belmont even offered its town hall. Romney accepted every offer. Romney later said of the experience, “Some people in Belmont thought of Latter-day Saints as bizarre, and we were not part of the church community. The fire changed that for good.”

8. Many people are unaware that Mitt Romney, as president of the Salt Lake Olympic Committee, worked without salary or even an expense account. In his book, “Turnaround,” he recalled, “I announced that I would not seek a severance package at the end of my term, as the prior Olympic CEO Tom Welch had required for himself. I would also work without compensation until the Games were over and proven financially successful. It is a luxury to be able to work for an extended period without salary. But my personal finances were such that I could afford it, and I wanted to make it clear that I was at the Games to serve, not to make a bundle. I also zeroed out over $1.5 million that had been budgeted to the CEO for outside consulting and support services. When you take a job to perform a service, not to earn a paycheck or win a jackpot, you do not really care a lot about how people think of you. You have the absolute luxury to do exactly what you think is right. Ann kept reminding me that this was about serving. It was a great relief and it freed my anxious mind to really do what I thought was right.”

7. Mitt’s father, George Romney suggested that his son study law, but Mitt really wanted to go to business school. In a compromise, Mitt attended Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School simultaneously, earning both a Juris Doctor and an MBA in four years. It’s an endeavor he wouldn’t recommend to others, he says.

6. Mitt Romney isn’t the first Mormon to seek the Presidency. He’s actually the fifth. The founder of the Mormon Church, Joseph Smith, ran for President in 1844. Mitt Romney’s father, George Romney, ran for President in 1967, Congressman Morris Udall of Arizona ran for president in 1976, and Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah ran in 2000. In only one of these races did the Mormon candidate come close to the nomination – George Romney’s 1968 run. George Romney was the GOP frontrunner for most of 1967, until he made a statement about being “brainwashed” about the Vietnam war, a statement that took on a life of its own and sank his campaign. His son, Mitt, who had worked on his father’s presidential campaign, learned a very valuable lesson from the experience: Watch what you say.

5. Mitt Romney was involved in an automobile accident when he was 20 years old and serving as an LDS missionary in France. He was at the wheel, cresting a hill, when an oncoming Mercedes passing a truck struck them in a head-on collision. There was one fatality – one of Romney’s passengers was pronounced dead at the scene. Romney was also pronounced dead at the scene. A gendarme had found him, thrown from the wreckage and unconscious, and wrote, “Il est mort” on Romney’s passport. Mitt’s parents and future wife Ann were informed erroneously that Mitt had been killed.

4. Oddly enough, George Romney’s campaign for president didn’t last long enough for anyone to make his Mormon religion a campaign issue. One staffer sent Mitt Romney an analysis listing 20 reasons why George Romney’s campaign had gone off the tracks. The fact that he was a Mormon was not among them.

3. Mitt Romney’s father, George Romney was born on July 8, 1907, in Colonia Juarez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Mitt’s grandparents, along with thousands of other Mormons, established a colony in Mexico in the 1880s to escape religious persecution. In 1912, the Romney family returned to the U.S.

2. Mitt Romney felt the 2008 government bailout of troubled banks was probably necessary, however he vigorously opposed any of that money going to the auto industry. He said, “I know we didn’t all agree on TARP. I believe that it was necessary to prevent a cascade of bank collapses. For free markets to work, there has to be a currency and a functioning financial system. But… TARP should not have been used to bail out GM, Chrysler and the UAW. And this is personal for me, I want the US auto industry to succeed. But that can only happen if its excessive costs and burdens are restructured. The right answer for Detroit is this: Fix it first.”

1. Mitt Romney, as Governor of Massachusetts, vetoed eight different provisions of the Massachusetts health care bill, seven of which were immediately overridden by democrat lawmakers, and the eighth was overridden the following year. During his 2007 presidential campaign, Mitt Romney proclaimed in his TV ads, “ I’ve vetoed hundreds of spending appropriations as governor.” It’s true, however, his 800 or so vetoes were overridden a total of 707 times by legislative democrats.

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