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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 934708" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I<span style="font-size: 15px"> just received this,...had not seen it before, maybe you have. This is a very important election...I think it always beneficial to learn more about our candidates. </span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #1F497D"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">R</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">esearch shows this story to be true, here is a website that talks about the story <a href="http://www.boortz.com/weblogs/nealz-nuze/2012/jan/23/know-your-candidates/" target="_blank">Know your candidates | Nealz Nuze | www.boortz.com</a> </span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Happy to hear something good about a candidate<span style="color: #1F497D">…</span>there are good things about them all. </span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">On Romney's character....</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">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.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> <span style="font-size: 15px">Romney and the other Bain employees scoured every part of New York and talked with everyone they could – prostitutes, drug addicts – anyone. That day, their hunt made the evening news, which featured photos of the girl and the Bain employees searching for her. As a result, a teenage boy phoned in, asked if there was a reward, and then hung up abruptly. The NYPD traced the call to a home in New Jersey, where they found the girl in the basement, shivering and experiencing withdrawal symptoms from a massive ecstasy dose. Doctors later said the girl might not have survived another day. Romney’s former partner credits Mitt Romney with saving his daughter’s life, saying, “It was the most amazing thing, and I’ll never forget this to the day I die<span style="color: #1F497D">.</span></span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Mitt Romney simply can’t help himself. He sees a problem, and his mind immediately sets to work solving it, sometimes consciously, and sometimes not-so-consciously. He doesn’t do it for self-aggrandizement, or for personal gain. He does it because that’s just how he’s wired. Many people are unaware of the fact that when Romney was asked by his old employer, Bill Bain, to come back to Bain & Company as CEO to rescue the firm from bankruptcy, </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Romney left Bain Capital to work at Bain & Company for an annual salary of one dollar. When Romney went to the rescue of the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics, he accepted no salary for three years, and wouldn’t use an expense account. He also accepted no salary as Governor of Massachusetts.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Character is very important.</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 934708, member: 1246"] [FONT="Arial"]I[SIZE=4] just received this,...had not seen it before, maybe you have. This is a very important election...I think it always beneficial to learn more about our candidates. [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT="Tahoma"][/FONT] [SIZE=4][FONT="Arial"][/FONT][FONT="Tahoma"][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#1F497D][FONT="Arial"]R[/FONT][/COLOR][FONT="Arial"]esearch shows this story to be true, here is a website that talks about the story [url=http://www.boortz.com/weblogs/nealz-nuze/2012/jan/23/know-your-candidates/]Know your candidates | Nealz Nuze | www.boortz.com[/url][COLOR=#1F497D] [/COLOR][/FONT][FONT="Tahoma"][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][FONT="Arial"][/FONT][FONT="Tahoma"][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][FONT="Arial"]Happy to hear something good about a candidate[COLOR=#1F497D]…[/COLOR]there are good things about them all. [/FONT][FONT="Tahoma"][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT="Arial"] [SIZE=4]On Romney's character....[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT="Tahoma"][/FONT] [FONT="Arial"] [SIZE=4]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[COLOR=#1F497D] [/COLOR]poles, while cashiers at a pharmacy owned by Bain put fliers in the bag[COLOR=#1F497D] [/COLOR]of every shopper.[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT="Tahoma"][/FONT] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#1F497D][FONT="Calibri"][/FONT][/COLOR][FONT="Tahoma"][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][FONT="Arial"] [SIZE=4]Romney and the other Bain employees scoured every part of New York and talked with everyone they could – prostitutes, drug[COLOR=#1F497D] [/COLOR]addicts – anyone.[COLOR=#1F497D] [/COLOR]That day, their hunt made the evening news, which featured photos of the girl and the Bain employees searching for her. As a result, a teenage boy phoned in, asked if there was a reward, and then hung up abruptly. The NYPD traced the call to a home in New Jersey,[COLOR=#1F497D] [/COLOR]where they found the girl in the basement, shivering and experiencing withdrawal symptoms from a massive ecstasy dose. Doctors later said the girl might not have survived another day. Romney’s former partner credits Mitt Romney with saving his daughter’s life, saying, “It was the[COLOR=#1F497D] [/COLOR]most amazing thing, and I’ll never forget this to the day I die[COLOR=#1F497D].[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT="Tahoma"][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#1F497D][FONT="Calibri"][/FONT][/COLOR][FONT="Tahoma"][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][FONT="Arial"]Mitt Romney simply can’t help himself. He sees a[COLOR=#1F497D] [/COLOR]problem, and his mind immediately sets to work solving it, sometimes consciously, and sometimes not-so-consciously. He doesn’t do it for self-aggrandizement, or for personal gain. He does it because that’s just how he’s wired.[COLOR=#1F497D] [/COLOR]Many people are unaware of the fact that when Romney was asked by his old employer, Bill Bain, to come back to Bain & Company as CEO to rescue the firm from bankruptcy, [/FONT][FONT="Tahoma"][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][COLOR=#1F497D][FONT="Calibri"][/FONT][/COLOR][FONT="Tahoma"][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="Arial"]Romney left Bain Capital to work at Bain & Company for an annual salary of one dollar. When Romney went to the rescue of the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics, he accepted no salary for three years, and wouldn’t use an expense account. He also accepted no salary as Governor of Massachusetts. Character is very important.[/FONT][FONT="Tahoma"][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT="Arial"][/FONT][FONT="Tahoma"][/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT="Tahoma"][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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