Romney "47 Percent" Fundraiser Host: Hedge Fund Manager Who Likes Sex Parties
Source: Mother Jones
When Mitt Romney at a private fundraiser dismissed all Barack Obama voters as moochers and victimsshowing disdain for nearly half of the American electoratehe was speaking at the home of controversial private equity manager Marc Leder in Boca Raton on May 17, 2012. This is evident from references made by Romney within the full video recording of the event that has been reviewed by Mother Jones.
When Mother Jones first disclosed secret video of Romney's remarks, we were obliged to not reveal details regarding the time and place of the event. That restriction has been lifted, as the story has garnered attention throughout the media.
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But Leder does differ from Romney in one significant fashion: how he likes to have a certain sort of fun. In August 2011, the New York Post reported,
It was as if the Playboy Mansion met the East EBond at a wild party at private-equity titan Marc Leder's Bridgehampton estate, where guests cavorted nude in the pool and performed sex acts, scantily dressed Russians danced on platforms and men twirled lit torches to a booming techno beat. The divorced Sun Capital Partners honcho rented a sprawling beachfront mansion on Surf Side Road for $500,000 for the month of July. Leder's weekly Friday and Saturday night parties have become the talk of the Hamptonsand he ended them in style last weekend with his wildest bash yet. Russell Simmons and ex-wife Kimora Lee attended a more subdued party thrown by Lederwho's an event chair for Simmons' Art For Life charityon July 29 together. But the revelry hit a frenzied point the next day before midnight when a male guest described as a "chubby white meathead" and a "tanned" female guest stripped and hopped into the pool naked.
Read more: http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/09/romney-secret-video-marc-leder-sex-parties
Mother Jones also quotes the NY Times saying that Leder's company, Sun Capital, "represents everything that's wrong" with private equity, with roughly 1/5 of the companies it owns declaring bankruptcy since 2008, including the restaurant chain Friendly's, which a federal agency accused Sun Capital of pushing into bankruptcy to avoid paying employee pensions.
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Kablooie
(18,634 posts)Squinch
(50,955 posts)sasha031
(6,700 posts)VWolf
(3,944 posts)OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)K & R!
defacto7
(13,485 posts)well... one thing anyway.
Zalatix
(8,994 posts)Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)Volaris
(10,272 posts)As long as they don't try and make it illegal for the rest of us. (And yes, Eyes Wide Shut comes to mind.) I 'm liberal enough to not care, and as long as everyone is playing by the mantra Safe, Sane, and Consensual, the sex ISN'T the thing about these people that bothers me. (it's the willingness to spend 500,000 in rent PER MONTH just to show off, actually that aggravates me).
we're talking about republicans here. They're the ones trying to shove their idea of morality down our throats. So the hypocracy has to be pointed out.
But yeah, the $500K rent thing pisses me off to no end.
Volaris
(10,272 posts)would be the LAST people to engage in such fun-filled Humanistic activities as group sex. You WOULD think that, if you were dumb enough to NOT know that the Filthy Rich Republicans are a different Party Faction than the Rapture-Ready Republicans. What's truly fun for me is trying to read the tea leaves on which group will win the coming intramural fight for the title "realest" Republicans. I say its the Filthy Riches, and the family values peeps will just have to anoint Ricky "We don't have no smart people over here" Santorum to be their Eternal Earth Leader.
The 2016 election cycle will be one for the books. I say our side should put up Dean/Warren, with David Axelrod as National Party Chair.
VWolf
(3,944 posts)Another "values voter", I presume