Monday, February 6, 2012

Incredible True Story Testifies To Romney's Character

The following story has been making the rounds on the Internet. It has been verified as true by the New York Times and snopes.com, among others. It's worth reading:
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."
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.
People who know him say 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.
That’s just how he’s wired.

2 comments:

Fred J Harris said...

Thanks, I am having a very hard time swallowing the
Romney pill. Your account is that of a good man.

Anonymous said...

Edward A. say's I m Impressed ! Why weren't we told this ?