Romney - the 'three strikes' defense
When I signed the SEC papers that said I was in charge of Bain companies after 1999, I was kidding. Just believe what I said after.
When I signed the papers for the Massachusettes election board saying I was still running Bain companies after 1999, I was kidding. Don't believe the Bain press releases and documents that I was still there.
Anybody can be paid checks to cash for being the chief executive for three years when I had absolutely nothing to do with Bain. It's common practice and could be part of any retirement plan.
Evidence to the contrary, just believe what I said - it's a 'faith-based' election. The media is going along with me.
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29A
After 1999, Romney remained on the boards at Staples and LifeLike Co.
July 15, 2012Bain, due to his sudden departure: ’It should not surprise anyone that Romney retained certain titles while he was working out the final disposition of his ownership, for example. ’
http://factcheck.org/2012/07/romneys-bain-years-new-evidence-same-conclusion/
livelonger
It might surprise many people that it took from 1999 to 2002 to straighten his departure out, while in the same 2002 year he declared to the MA credentials board that he was still in charge and Bain made press releases to that effect.
I enjoy the GOP defense:
July 15, 2012Don’t examine these credentials, look over to the other courtroom to see how Obama’s case is going.
29A
It seems to me his declarations to the MA election board were that he attended meetings at Staples, not that he was active in Bain. If he had been active at Bain the 2002 residency issue would never have come up. Perhaps the reason it took so long to straighten his departure out was due to the fact that he originally had planned to return after the Olympics.
July 15, 2012http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0712/78463_Page2.html
livelonger
““When I left my employer in Massachusetts in February of 1999 to accept the Olympic assignment,” Romney testified before the state Ballot Law Commission on June 17, 2002, “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.”
Romney also testified that “there were a number of social trips and business trips that brought [him] back to Massachusetts, board meetings” while he was running the Olympics. He added that he remained on the boards of several companies, including the Lifelike Co., in which Bain Capital held a stake until 2001.
Romney’s lawyer at the hearing said that Romney’s work in the private sector continued unbroken while he ran the Olympics."
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2012/07/14/evidence_mounts_of_mitt_romneys_continuing_ties_to_bain_after_1999/?page=2
But then, you can’t believe his own lawyer.
July 15, 201229A
Imo, the D’s are purposely trying to confuse the issue and say that Romney’s management at Bain-controlled companies is equal to management at Bain, [and yeah he still held titles at Bain]. In 2002, according to the MA Democratic Party, Romney had no residency status in MA because he had left Bain; and now Obama wants to charge that Romney didn’t leave until 2002. They failed on the first round, and so they come back with the opposite spin.
July 15, 2012livelonger
The spin on Meet the Press today is that signing SEC documents and making statements to the MA election board is too trivial to bother with. In picking running mates and new Presidents from now on there’s no need to check background. (Not even show a birth certificate.)
Whenever some questions come up about what a candidate declared in legal documents, they are to be dismissed because the media wants to discuss something else.
If the candidate gets to a court case, everybody in the courtroom stop, get up, and leave to go to the next room where Obama is on trial.
If that’s the America you want to live in – go for it.
July 15, 201229A
I find no discrepancy in Romney’s statements. The left is making a bad argument. Just look at this sentence, in which they fail to realize that LifeLike is a separate entity from Bain – and the whole article reads like that.
July 15, 2012‘Mitt Romney’s repeated claim that he played no part in executive decision-making related to Bain Capital after 1999 is false, according to Romney’s own testimony in June 2002, in which he admitted to sitting on the board of the LifeLike Co., a dollmaker that was a Bain investment during the period. ’ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/12/mitt-romney-bain-departure_n_1669006.html?ir=Politics
livelonger
That YOU find no discrepancy isn’t important. We will yet see if there is:
July 15, 2012“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”