2012 - values: Real Hope'n Change

From: rapa Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 Subject: INTERESTING STORY ABOUT ROMNEY'S TRUE CHARACTER

     Yep, character does matter, and what we have been hearing in the media recently has been quite shocking.  I thought you might like to see another side of one of the candidates.  It appears there is more to the Bain Capital story than is being told, so I hope this story below is informative.

     Romney's character.... 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 house 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 would not use an expense account.  He also accepted no salary as Governor of Massachusetts.

     Character counts!! (And yes...that's worth reading again!)

     It's nice to hear something positive about one of the candidates for a change.

These sites give this story a rating of TRUE.http://www.snopes.com/politics/romney/search.asp

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/jan/30/chain-email/viral-internet-story-says-mitt-romney-helped-locat/

A couple of Youtube comments:

  "Still, have you heard the stories of how Mitt rescued some boaters?  Not just once, but two different cases and different people, neither of whom he knew before hand.  Or how about the family he helped clean up after fire damage in CA?  There are pictures of him with chainsaw in hand, no reporters, no cameras, etc.  There were cameras, but they were the point and shoot kind from others assisting in the help."

Machtyn in reply to huy801 (Show the comment) 1 month ago 

"A couple months back he wrote out a check to a woman struggling to pay her bills.  As she was telling him her story, he asked how much she needed to pay a certain bill, and then he wrote out a check to her for that amount.  He can't help every single individual, but he has helped people in more ways than people know.  He also gave 16.4% of his income to charity...Rick and Newt gave only 2%-3%.  There are a lot of misconceptions out there about Romney and it's really too bad."

stephaniejane81 in reply to huy801 (Show the comment) 2 months ago 

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"Real Heroes Don't Brag" -- Sen. John McCain referring to Obama.