Posted on 04/30/2012 11:54:08 AM PDT by Don Corleone
Snopes.com confirmed this as true... \http://www.snopes.com/politics/romney/search.asp
Sometimes, this facet of Romney’s personality isn’t so subtle. 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 – 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.”
So, here’s my epiphany: 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, 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 counts!! (and yes...that's worth reading again!)
For all the Freepers who would rather see the GOP fall firmly into the hands of the socialists...think it over.
And all Obama would’ve done was said, “If I had a daughter, she’d look like this missing girl.”
Good move by Mittens on this one.
Okay, I thought it over.
No 0bama for me.
Virgil Goode it is!
No Sale. ABL. Anyone But Liberals.
/johnny
PFL
I am honored and grateful for your sentiments, and may your grandchild be a masculine grandchild.
Sorry, this story has been posted on FR before and when you find the original article Romney is not as presented here.
Great re-writing of history however.
Read post #250, it has the original article.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2841737/posts?page=250#250
Another source for the disbelievers.
http://www.westernfreepress.com/2012/04/27/romney-saves-drowning-dog-missing-teen/
Thank you D.C. While I am not “one of those FReepers”, I was, (and I’m fairly certain ; }that I’m not alone in this), in dire need of learning SOMETHING about Romney that was undeniably admirable.
You have performed a valuable service my FRiend.
May God guide our course out of this mess, that we have gotten ourselves into.
Goode over evil.
The Daily Planet has reported Romney has been known to leap tall buildings in a single bound.
“I think the old standby definitions of who votes for which party have been blown away in this campaign. I think people recognize that I’m not a partisan Republican—that I’m someone who is moderate, and that my views are progressive.”
-Mitt Romney (2002)
Video of the quote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMcjJEXt9To
Obama continued: “I am somebody who is no doubt progressive. I believe in a tax code that we need to make more fair. I believe in universal health care. I believe in making college affordable. I believe in paying our teachers more money. I believe in early childhood education. I believe in a whole lot of things that make me progressive.”
-Barack Obama
http://www.progressive.org/mag/nichols0109.html
To impress me he has to do nice things for liberty, and very nasty things to tyranny.
I will die just as soon in the Romney built gulag as the Obama built gulag.
On the bright side, the Romney built gulag will be a good bipartisan compromise gulag, pleasing the moderate American people, much better than the hated dictator Obama's socialist prison camp.
But...but...but, there’s no difference between Romney and Obama!
What about the daughters of poor non-Mormon men who also went missing that day ???
What did Willie Mitty do about them...
also this wasnt the idea of Willie Mitty and he was not in charge...
This was posted in 2008...
and also already this time..
It came out back in 2008 that an urban legend making Willie Mitty a larger than life Last Action Hero was conveniently developed for his political office runs...
It seems he also may not have been as hands on as the fairy tale reports...
There are missing children right now weho were not derugged up runaways...
Why isnt your wonder boy out beating the bushes for them ???
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.
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Yeah thats how he gave sane sex marriage to MASS while he was Gov
He didnt benefit himself...
Hes not a homosexual...
and yes hes wired all wrong...
and hes all wrong for America,,,
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.
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Ask the millions of dead unborn children if they agree with your assessment of the abortionist Willard Mitt Romney and if they liked how he is wired...
I think you may be a little bit too soon for most of the Freepers here. Some are determined to not vote for Romney, no matter what. Heck, I have a hard time blaming them. Personally, I didn’t vote for McCain, I cast my vote for Sarah, for all the good that did. Here I am ready to hold my nose when voting for the top of the ticket again. What DOES excite me is 1) working for a Republican majority in the Senate and gaining more seats in the House 2) Saying “bye-bye ‘Bamster”.
Romney left Bain Capital to work at Bain & Company for an annual salary of one dollar.
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plus bennnies and stock in the company...
Boy you must think we’re dumb...
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