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Benjy Sarlin
Mitt Romney offered up few new details on his role at Bain Capital and said that voters should not expect more information on his finances during a slate of primetime TV interviews.
Romney again insisted that he bore no responsibility for any investments or actions taken by Bain from 1999-2002 while he was running the Olympics, despite being listed as the companys sole stockholder, president, CEO and chairman of the board in numerous SEC filings.
I had no association with the management of Bain Capital after February of 1999, Romney told ABC News. That is when I left the firm. I am very pleased with the experience I had with the firm but as everyone knows I went on to run the Olympics for three years. I was there full time. After that I came back and ran in Massachusetts for governor.
CBS Newss Jan Crawford asked Romney that even if he wasnt involved in day-to-day operations at Bain, as the listed owner of the company, Doesnt the buck stop with you? Romney insisted he should not be politically liable for anything that happened after 1999.
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http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/mitt-romney-bain-media-tv-interviews.php
Romney Interview Directly Contradicts His Previous Statements About Bain Tenure
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002945280
Obama Camp Not Satisfied With Romneys Answer On Bain
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002945292
MADem
(135,425 posts)But if he thinks he's going to drag himself back to the high ground, he's got another think comin'! Haley Barbour and Michael Steele have crawled up his ass and told him to come clean....when he can't even get the GOP to circle the wagons on his behalf, he's not "leading."
It's really delightful to watch that little shit squirm!
treestar
(82,383 posts)really stop affecting the company the instant he leaves?
And as we see, he did not leave, either.
KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)Kudos to the Obama team for sticking with this line of attack...forcing Willard to renounce who he is to be what he thinks he is. It's framing him as Richie Rich and he's complying by trying to define what "is is".
KurtMcC
(1 post)If Mitt Romney wants to claim that he is not responsible for any actions of Bain Capital after 1999, then he should give away every dollar he earned from its activities since that point. I don't expect he'd agree to that.
EvolveOrConvolve
(6,452 posts)The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)Even on the off-chance he did not make the decisions, he profited from them, and they were made to put money in his pockets, money taken from working people and local governments, in order that R-Money could become even richer, pile the cash up even higher in tax havens abroad.
"Romney loves America like a tick loves a dog."