Romney needs to put up, instead of telling people to shut up. There’s nothing to hide? Prove it.
• Romney’s explanation when he appeared before the Massachusetts State Ballot Law Commission in 2002: “When I left my employer in Massachusetts in February of 1999 to accept the Olympic assignment, I left on the basis of a leave of absence, indicating that I, by virtue of that title, would return at the end of the Olympics to my employment at Bain Capital, but subsequently decided not to do so and entered into a departure agreement with my former partners, I use that in the colloquial sense, not legal sense, but my former partners.”
• It’s worth remembering that when he was running for Massachusetts governor in 2002, there were questions about his eligibility for state office, given that he’d spent two years working in Salt Lake City. That’s when Romney described himself as only on leave from Bain. In 2002 Massachusetts disclosure forms he signed in 2003, Romney listed himself as a Bain “executive,” making more than $100,000 a year. So back when it was useful to have Bain ties, Romney pointed to them. Now it’s politically useful to have cut those ties in early 1999, so that’s the story Romney tells.
• It will be harder to explain away Romney’s signature on Bain-related documents with the SEC, on six separate occasions, during that 1999-2001 interregnum. Between 1999 and 2001, Mitt Romney, then the CEO of Bain Capital, signed at least six documents that the private equity firm filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The documents run in direct contradiction to a claim that Romney has made repeatedly: that he had nothing to do with Bain, and therefore no responsibility for Bain investments, during that period … SEC files include at least six instances of Romney signing documents after February 1999, proving — unless the signatures were forged — that his claim to not have “been involved in the operations of any Bain Capital entity in any way” is wrong.
• “I don’t recall”: – 2002: “[T]here were a number of social trips and business trips that brought me back to Massachusetts, board meetings, Thanksgiving and so forth.” – 2012: “I was in Salt Lake City for three straight years. I don’t recall even coming back once to go to a Bain or management meeting. We were, I was out there running the Olympics and it was a full time job, I can tell you that.”
• The president himself turned up the heat during an interview with a local ABC affiliate. “Now, my understanding is that Mr. Romney attested to the SEC, multiple times, that he was the chairman, CEO and president of Bain Capital and I think most Americans figure if you are the chairman, CEO and president of a company that you are responsible for what that company does,” Obama said.
• Like all presidential candidates, Romney has to submit a financial disclosure statement to the Office of Government Ethics. He filed his most recent one last month, and the disclosure contains a very clearly stated footnote: Mr. Romney retired from Bain Capital on February 11, 1999 to head the Salt Lake [Olympics] Organizing Committee. Since February 11, 1999, Mr. Romney has not had any active role with any Bain Capital entity and has not been involved in the operations of any Bain Capital entity in any way. There’s no ambiguity there: not involved in Bain operations in any way. But that’s not true.
• Would Romney run America like he ran Bain? Reaping the money, the glory, and the power without taking any responsibility for his decisions? Where is Romney’s leadership at Bain? He was there, he wasn’t there, he was the sole stock owner – he was profiting off of the outsourcing, but he wants to deny responsibility for it.
In the US:
• “33 votes to repeal the healthcare bill. All it would take is one vote to make sure that all of you don’t see your taxes go up next year. You tell me what would be a better use of time.” – Obama, on a two-day, five-stop bus tour in Virginia
• The rigidity of those pledges is something I don’t like. The circumstances change and you can’t be wedded to some formula by Grover Norquist. It’s—who the hell is Grover Norquist, anyway? – GHW Bush, in an interview with Parade Magazine.
• JPMorgan Chase disclosed on Friday that losses on its botched credit bet could climb to more than $7 billion and that the bank’s traders may have intentionally tried to obscure the full extent of the red ink on the disastrous trades.
• US nuclear regulators published an update on California’s troubled San Onofre power plant Thursday, sparking an expert warning that the problem is more serious than first thought. The new data shows that more than 3,400 steam generator tubes in the new steam generators at San Onofre have been found to be damaged — about 1,800 in Unit 3 and 1,600 in Unit 2.
• Did the NYPD Invent Murder Ties to Smear Occupy Wall Street? – the police already had a main “person of interest” in the case, Dimitry Sheinman, a person with no ties to Occupy Wall Street… the NYPD is collecting DNA from Occupy protest scenes?… Two sources said officials are investigating whether at an NYPD lab technician came into contact with both pieces of evidence, causing the match.
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Prove it [Shorter Question Everything]
Romney needs to put up, instead of telling people to shut up. There’s nothing to hide? Prove it.
• Romney’s explanation when he appeared before the Massachusetts State Ballot Law Commission in 2002: “When I left my employer in Massachusetts in February of 1999 to accept the Olympic assignment, I left on the basis of a leave of absence, indicating that I, by virtue of that title, would return at the end of the Olympics to my employment at Bain Capital, but subsequently decided not to do so and entered into a departure agreement with my former partners, I use that in the colloquial sense, not legal sense, but my former partners.”
• It’s worth remembering that when he was running for Massachusetts governor in 2002, there were questions about his eligibility for state office, given that he’d spent two years working in Salt Lake City. That’s when Romney described himself as only on leave from Bain. In 2002 Massachusetts disclosure forms he signed in 2003, Romney listed himself as a Bain “executive,” making more than $100,000 a year. So back when it was useful to have Bain ties, Romney pointed to them. Now it’s politically useful to have cut those ties in early 1999, so that’s the story Romney tells.
• It will be harder to explain away Romney’s signature on Bain-related documents with the SEC, on six separate occasions, during that 1999-2001 interregnum. Between 1999 and 2001, Mitt Romney, then the CEO of Bain Capital, signed at least six documents that the private equity firm filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The documents run in direct contradiction to a claim that Romney has made repeatedly: that he had nothing to do with Bain, and therefore no responsibility for Bain investments, during that period … SEC files include at least six instances of Romney signing documents after February 1999, proving — unless the signatures were forged — that his claim to not have “been involved in the operations of any Bain Capital entity in any way” is wrong.
• “I don’t recall”: – 2002: “[T]here were a number of social trips and business trips that brought me back to Massachusetts, board meetings, Thanksgiving and so forth.” – 2012: “I was in Salt Lake City for three straight years. I don’t recall even coming back once to go to a Bain or management meeting. We were, I was out there running the Olympics and it was a full time job, I can tell you that.”
• The president himself turned up the heat during an interview with a local ABC affiliate. “Now, my understanding is that Mr. Romney attested to the SEC, multiple times, that he was the chairman, CEO and president of Bain Capital and I think most Americans figure if you are the chairman, CEO and president of a company that you are responsible for what that company does,” Obama said.
• Like all presidential candidates, Romney has to submit a financial disclosure statement to the Office of Government Ethics. He filed his most recent one last month, and the disclosure contains a very clearly stated footnote: Mr. Romney retired from Bain Capital on February 11, 1999 to head the Salt Lake [Olympics] Organizing Committee. Since February 11, 1999, Mr. Romney has not had any active role with any Bain Capital entity and has not been involved in the operations of any Bain Capital entity in any way. There’s no ambiguity there: not involved in Bain operations in any way. But that’s not true.
• Would Romney run America like he ran Bain? Reaping the money, the glory, and the power without taking any responsibility for his decisions? Where is Romney’s leadership at Bain? He was there, he wasn’t there, he was the sole stock owner – he was profiting off of the outsourcing, but he wants to deny responsibility for it.
In the US:
• “33 votes to repeal the healthcare bill. All it would take is one vote to make sure that all of you don’t see your taxes go up next year. You tell me what would be a better use of time.” – Obama, on a two-day, five-stop bus tour in Virginia
• The rigidity of those pledges is something I don’t like. The circumstances change and you can’t be wedded to some formula by Grover Norquist. It’s—who the hell is Grover Norquist, anyway? – GHW Bush, in an interview with Parade Magazine.
• JPMorgan Chase disclosed on Friday that losses on its botched credit bet could climb to more than $7 billion and that the bank’s traders may have intentionally tried to obscure the full extent of the red ink on the disastrous trades.
• US nuclear regulators published an update on California’s troubled San Onofre power plant Thursday, sparking an expert warning that the problem is more serious than first thought. The new data shows that more than 3,400 steam generator tubes in the new steam generators at San Onofre have been found to be damaged — about 1,800 in Unit 3 and 1,600 in Unit 2.
• Did the NYPD Invent Murder Ties to Smear Occupy Wall Street? – the police already had a main “person of interest” in the case, Dimitry Sheinman, a person with no ties to Occupy Wall Street… the NYPD is collecting DNA from Occupy protest scenes?… Two sources said officials are investigating whether at an NYPD lab technician came into contact with both pieces of evidence, causing the match.