Posted on 08/12/2010 1:42:24 PM PDT by Scythian
So you bought the LSM lies did ya.
No, I just read his wiki profile and it looked like he started a company buying companies when he was just a couple of years out of law school.
Actually that was a setup. Quayle was given cards by the school. It was spelled that way on the card.
Dan was never rich. But the press portrayed him as such. He paid his own way through law school. And Wiki lies. Look elsewhere for info on any Repub or Conservative. I doubt they’re rich now. But that’s always been the accusation when the left talks about the right.
Again, from Wiki, on Dan:
“His maternal grandfather, Eugene C. Pulliam, was a wealthy and influential publishing magnate who founded Central Newspapers, Inc., owner of over a dozen major newspapers such as The Arizona Republic and The Indianapolis Star. James C. Quayle moved his family to Arizona in 1955 to run a branch of the family’s publishing empire. While the Quayle family was very wealthy[citation needed] , Dan Quayle was less so; his total net worth by the time of his election in 1988 was less than a million dollars.[4]”
So I take it his family wealth was still largely with his mother or mother and father at the time he was VP, but he certainly was raised in a wealthy family. And for years he’s been at a high level with one of the largest PE firms in the world—certainly he’s made quite a bit on his own in that time as well.
No. He wasn't His grandfather tied up the family fortune. No heirs. For either 100 or 150 years. Why are you buying the spin?!
Sorry, ya ol (but handsome) coot! I fergot to use spill check. I’m so hapy to sea that yew havenit changoid a bot, sinse all yer prayers for recoverie, last yeir. (Just as ornery as evir!)
Dan Quayle is Chairman of an international division of Cerberus Capital Management, a multi-billion dollar private equity firm, and president of Quayle and Associates.
You may be familiar with Cerberus - They own a number of major corporations. They owned a majority stake in Chrysler before it was taken over by the government.
Dan Quayle is extremely rich and probably funded Ben's business venture.
I would bet you two are younger than me. I remember all the crap and spin. I thought freepers would be smarter than that.
You accused me of falling for media spin because I wrote that Ben could go back to managing his family money. A kid just out of law school who starts his own PE firm with a 99.5% likelihood does it with his family’s money and or connections. I don’t think you’ve offered anything that suggests my going with the odds is wrong.
I do remember and indeed Quayle was jobbed by the media—but I still don’t see how they lied about his family’s wealth.
According to this wiki entry, Quayle’s father himself was quite wealthy, owning multiple newspapers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_C._Quayle
Tell me, why are you against someone who has earned wealth? Why are you against a father helping his son financially? I thought it odd that Quayle and his parents lived middle class when the grandfather was rich but it's what the old man did. Even when Quayles father got lupus. Even now Quayle only gets a stipend from his grandfathers money. He will never inherit it. The principal wasn't to be distributed for 100 years.
Wikipedia is as left as one can get. Quayle grew up middle class and attended public schools. Fall for the left's line if you like. You wouldn't be the first and you won't be the last.
I’m not against wealth or a father helping a son. Whoever said I was?
I just don’t think such a fortunate son has large ‘potatoes’ for running a tough-talking campaign ad—that’s what I was commenting on. Dan is Ben’s family and that’s all I was referring to, not that it had to specifically be 5th-generation funds in Ben’s specific PE firm. I’d also be surprised if the Quayles, especially with Ben running for office, would let stand an inaccurate wiki profile about his grandfather owning multiple newspapers. (And yes, that does match with what the press reported when Dan was running for vp and I still don’t see how they lied about that basic biographical information.)
About 10 posts ago, you claimed Quayle probably wasn’t rich now.
I have never denied the fact that he became rich on his own. The fact is he is extremely wealthy and probably funded his son’s business.
Knowledge is a dangerous tool - it opens minds.
You cant depend on spell check ether.
:)
You know NOTHING about wikipedia, do you.
(And yes, that does match with what the press reported when Dan was running for vp and I still don’t see how they lied about that basic biographical information.)
Because Dan grew up middle class and it wasn't his money. Nor his parents.
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Since leaving public office, Dan Quayle has authored three books: Standing Firm, A Vice-Presidential Memoir which was on the New York Times bestseller list for 15 weeks; The American Family: Discovering the Values that Make Us Strong; and Worth Fighting For. He established and sold an insurance business in Indiana . For two years he was a distinguished visiting professor of international studies at Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management . Currently, Dan Quayle is Chairman of Cerberus Global Investments, LLC (Cerberus), President of Quayle & Associates, and serves on the boards of directors of IAP Worldewide Services, Inc., K2, Inc and Aozora Bank, Ltd in Tokyo . He makes frequent public appearances and speeches, and writes a nationally syndicated weekly newspaper column.
Dan Quayle joined the Cerberus Advisory Board in 2000, and currently serves as Chairman.
Snowe and Collins are Republicans.
Snowe and Collins are Republicans.
Snowe and Collins are Republicans.
Snowe and Collins are Republicans.
Penance completed.
That is a lot of bustin’ cap to remove the hell from DC.
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