Bain Capital - Paragon of Capitalistic Virtue Donates Mostly to Democrats

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 Top Contributor to Member(29 results)

• Bain Capital to Al Franken (D) in 2012
• Bain Capital to Christopher S. Murphy (D) in 2012
• Bain Capital to Claire McCaskill (D) in 2012
• Bain Capital to David N. Cicilline (D) in 2012
• Bain Capital to Jack Reed (D) in 2012
• Bain Capital to Jeanne Shaheen (D) in 2012
• Bain Capital to Jim Himes (D) in 2012
• Bain Capital to John Kerry (D) in 2012
• Bain Capital to Maria Cantwell (D) in 2012
• Bain Capital to Mark Udall (D) in 2012
• Bain Capital to Mark Warner (D) in 2012
• Bain Capital to Michael F. Bennet (D) in 2012
• Bain Capital to Richard Blumenthal (D) in 2012
• Bain Capital to Scott P. Brown (R) in 2012
• Bain Capital to Sheldon Whitehouse (D) in 2012
• Bain Capital to Anthony D. Weiner (D) in 2010
• Bain Capital to James Webb (D) in 2010
• Bain Capital to Jon Tester (D) in 2010
• Bain Capital to Niki Tsongas (D) in 2010
• Bain Capital to Paul W. Hodes (D) in 2010
• Bain Capital to Sherrod Brown (D) in 2010
• Bain Capital to Bob Casey (D) in 2008
• Bain Capital to Edward M. Kennedy (D) in 2008
• Bain Capital to Harold E. Ford Jr (D) in 2006
• Bain Capital to Marty Meehan (D) in 2006
• Bain Capital to John Kerry (D) in 2004
• Bain Capital to Judd Gregg (R) in 2002
• Bain Capital to Max Cleland (D) in 2002
• Bain Capital to Gordon H. Smith (R) in 2000

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  Top Contributor to Candidate(10 results)

• Bain Capital to Arizona Senate candidates in 2012
• Bain Capital to Virginia Senate candidates in 2012
• Bain Capital to Connecticut District 4 candidates in 2008
• Bain Capital to New Hampshire Senate candidates in 2008
• Bain Capital to Montana Senate candidates in 2006
• Bain Capital to Rhode Island Senate candidates in 2006
• Bain Capital to New York District 29 candidates in 2004
• Bain Capital to North Carolina Senate candidates in 2004
• Bain Capital to Virginia District 10 candidates in 2004
• Bain Capital to Maine Senate candidates in 2002

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  Top Contributor to Party Cmte(3 results)

• Bain Capital to DCCC in 2012
• Bain Capital to DPC in 2012
• Bain Capital to DNC in 2008

[b9]

Rush’s position on this is looking more and more moronic with each passing day.

No kidding...

[dfwgator]

"Hey Ted, who should I make this check out to?"

[Keith in Iowa]

Then can I blame the performance of the Mn Vikings this year on Bud Grant because he used to be their coach?

[NVDave]

Yup.

I’ve already seen the data, but haven’t posted it because I don’t have the time to make the goods look pretty in HTML.

The net:net story of Bain’s political contributions is this: They started out very small... then in ‘94, the first time Romney was running for an office, the contributions markedly increased at Bain, with a big chunk headed for Romney.

After that, it was a mixed back for Congressional seats through the mid-90’s, somewhat favoring the GOP.

Then after the ‘99 to ‘00 cycle, the contribution level exploded again. In the 2000 race, they were backing Hillary and the Democrats. Since then, it has been pretty heavily stacked for the Democrats. Even in the 2008 cycle, they backed the DNC much more heavily than they backed Mitt.

[FreedomProtector]

Slick Mitt ran to the left of Ted Kennedy, may as well be a democrat.....

[RetSignman]

[Does your 401k have any I vestments with Bain?]

I’m not running for president.

[CynicalBear]

>>Then can I blame the performance of the Mn Vikings this year on Bud Grant because he used to be their coach?<<

Did Romney leave Bain Capitol back in 1985 like Bud Grant left the Vikings? Now if you had said Brad Childress or Mike Tice we may have some kind of comparison.

[Tramonto]

Rush has been a Romney supporter for a long time. He is clever about how he goes about it but It seems like people are starting to see the truth.

Rush is not a conservative, he just plays one on the radio.

[Keith in Iowa]

>>>I’m not running for president.

Irrelevant. You’d be just as evil as Willard for having investments in Bain, and just as responsible as he is for the current political contributions.

[surrey]

Romney is no longer with Bain but I know one of the guys running it now Steve Pagliuca is a big lib. I believe he ran in the primary for Dead Ted’s seat.

[swampfox101]

I have listened and watched Rush for yrs. but he has moved to the left on this issue.

Plus, he has angered a large part of his listening audience because he is and has been supporting the establishment candidate.

Just look at the man’s website, it’s bash Newt all day every day. Then he has the audicity to try and convinence us that its all about defending CAPTIALISM. Bull Feathres.

[swampfox101]

I have listened and watched Rush for yrs. but he has moved to the left on this issue.

Plus, he has angered a large part of his listening audience because he is and has been supporting the establishment candidate.

Just look at the man’s website, it’s bash Newt all day every day. Then he has the audicity to try and convinence us that its all about defending CAPTIALISM. Bull Feathres.

[swampfox101]

I have listened and watched Rush for yrs. but he has moved to the left on this issue.

Plus, he has angered a large part of his listening audience because he is and has been supporting the establishment candidate.

Just look at the man’s website, it’s bash Newt all day every day. Then he has the audicity to try and convinence us that its all about defending CAPTIALISM. Bull Feathres.

[annieokie]

Its like this:

The Dems are the Pimps.

The Reps are the whores

As long as the pimps don't beat the whores up to bad, and give them a tad of the take, it be ok. And you will only hear about the awful things the whores did.

[swampfox101]

Sadly, that the way it appears....!

[swampfox101]

Sadly, that’s the way it appears....!

[annieokie]

Excellant Post, can't get into the links, but I can assume that this is BIG. Hopefully the info in the links will be clearer for us.

THANKS

[Honorary Serb]

Go right ahead and use it!

[vbmoneyspender]

Scroll down a little bit and I reposted the links so they worked. The first post didn't have the full url for the individual links.

Thanks

[Jane Long]

Thanks. My take is that both Bain (and The Olympics) - under Rombama's direction - took government $$ to improve/enhance their deals. That's all fine and dandy (in a free market), but it's the fact that the tax payer's paid out this $$ and Bain turned around and sold the company for millions (reaped the profit) at the expense of the taxpayer.

In both examples mentioned (Staples and Holden), the state/county offered deal sweeteners from state/county funds. That's similar to what Perry and Texas have done to entice businesses to move to Texas, right? Yet, Perry is one of the biggest critics of this? I'm not sure I get that.

The biggest take away for me is that Myth keeps talking about Bammy's bail out's/spending, etc., yet he was happy to take taxpayer $$ to sweeten his own deals. Hypocrite.