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In reply to the discussion: Oh, "Managing Member of Bain in 2002 Mitt Romney," you are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO screwed. [View all]Amerigo Vespucci
(30,885 posts)37. They're giving equal time to soulless anuses like Ed Gillespie who said he "retroactively" resigned.
Ed Gillespie: Mitt Romney 'Retired Retroactively' From Bain Capital (VIDEO)
Posted: 07/15/2012 10:36 am Updated: 07/15/2012 11:02 am
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/15/ed-gillespie-mitt-romney_n_1674281.html
WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney adviser Ed Gillespie said Sunday that the candidate "retired retroactively" from his job at Bain Capital, which Romney maintains that he left in 1999 despite evidence suggesting he remained involved with the company until 2002.
Gillespie said Romney may have been listed as "part-time" after 1999, but that he had no role in the firm's day-to-day affairs, a point the campaign has attempted to make repeatedly in order to separate him from Bain's activity related to outsourcing during that period. Romney has said he left the company completely in 1999 when he started working to plan the 2002 Winter Olympics.
"There may have been a thought at the time that [Romney's Bain work] could be part-time. It was not part-time. The Olympics was in a shambles," Gillespie told Candy Crowley on CNN's "State of the Union."
"He took a leave of absence and in fact, Candy, ended up not going back at all and retired retroactively to February 1999 as a result," Gillespie said.
Posted: 07/15/2012 10:36 am Updated: 07/15/2012 11:02 am
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/15/ed-gillespie-mitt-romney_n_1674281.html
WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney adviser Ed Gillespie said Sunday that the candidate "retired retroactively" from his job at Bain Capital, which Romney maintains that he left in 1999 despite evidence suggesting he remained involved with the company until 2002.
Gillespie said Romney may have been listed as "part-time" after 1999, but that he had no role in the firm's day-to-day affairs, a point the campaign has attempted to make repeatedly in order to separate him from Bain's activity related to outsourcing during that period. Romney has said he left the company completely in 1999 when he started working to plan the 2002 Winter Olympics.
"There may have been a thought at the time that [Romney's Bain work] could be part-time. It was not part-time. The Olympics was in a shambles," Gillespie told Candy Crowley on CNN's "State of the Union."
"He took a leave of absence and in fact, Candy, ended up not going back at all and retired retroactively to February 1999 as a result," Gillespie said.
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Oh, "Managing Member of Bain in 2002 Mitt Romney," you are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO screwed. [View all]
Amerigo Vespucci
Jul 2012
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Oh, don't be a silly goose! Romney was a member of the managing committee but he wasn't.
CTyankee
Jul 2012
#4
Excellent point about the parallel to Cheney and Halliburton. The thing that troubles me...
wakemewhenitsover
Jul 2012
#56
"Rules? Laws? What are these things of which you speak? Those are for the little people."
AnotherMother4Peace
Jul 2012
#5
Bwaaa hah hah. Nice try. Well wait a minute - actually that was so lame it's funny.
geckosfeet
Jul 2012
#11
There is a whistleblower--it's the paperwork Mittsy filed with the SEC and the state of MA.
MADem
Jul 2012
#12
LOL: If corporations are people, disclosure documents are whistleblowers!
alcibiades_mystery
Jul 2012
#19
But he liked firing people. For some people, it's not about the money. It is about their dignity. nt
MADem
Jul 2012
#54
This is the guy who bought and destroyed all the the hard drives from his stay
geckosfeet
Jul 2012
#23
An astute observation from MSNBC that I just posted in another thread...
Amerigo Vespucci
Jul 2012
#31
They're giving equal time to soulless anuses like Ed Gillespie who said he "retroactively" resigned.
Amerigo Vespucci
Jul 2012
#37
He's giving it up that running something like Bain is something to be ashamed of.
brewens
Jul 2012
#33
As a "Manager", shouldn't he have fired himself for getting paid $$$$$$$$$ and doing nothing?
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jul 2012
#42