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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAww, poor little Mittens had to rough it sitting on old mahogany chairs at Staples board meetings
I'm sure everyone felt so sorry for him after hearing about how difficult those days were for him...
http://prospect.org/article/mom-and-pop-bain-capital
Mom-and-Pop Bain Capital
ORLANDO, FLORIDAMitt Romney just can't drop his phony everyman act, and he added a new spin on it Friday night: the struggling young businessman.
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Romney included a new narrative of hardship at a rally hosted inside a pant factory plant in Orlando on Friday night. He began by railing against the government before discussing the early parts of his career as a vulture venture capitalist:
"Let me tell you the difference between what happens in the real economythe private sectorand when government is practicing crony capitalism, playing by their own set of rules. You see, when we first helped Staples (the office superstore) get started, we raised about $5 or $10 million, to get that first store going. The government put in $500 million into Solyndra. And our offices, by the way, were in the back of a shopping center, an abandoned shopping center. We had all old furniture. I remember these chairs we had for the board meetings; they were these mahogany hide chairs. We sunk so deeply you had to have an athletic body to get out of them."
That must have only seemed like roughing it compared to the throne Romney sat on at Bain Capital. When consulting firm Bain & Company tasked Romney with spinning off a new private equity venture in 1983, he raised $37 million in funds to launch the new group the next year, hardly the type of budget to describe a group meeting in back alleys and sitting on leftover furniture purchased from Goodwill.
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Aww, poor little Mittens had to rough it sitting on old mahogany chairs at Staples board meetings (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Jan 2012
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3waygeek
(2,034 posts)1. You'd think they'd be able to get hold of some better chairs...
If only there were a store that sold all kinds of office equipment (including office chairs) at low prices.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,382 posts)5. *snarf*
ashling
(25,771 posts)2. Lighten up on the guy!
I mean, he even has to wash his own Mormon underwear. Some say it is to hide the skid marks.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)3. It's an inspiration how he overcame such hardship.
Was the dumb shit trying to say "naugahide?"
onethatcares
(16,192 posts)4. wtf?
there's a pant factory in the big O? where are they hiding that? Out near the airport or along the OBTrail?