According to Romney’s own 2002 testimony, he worked for Bain after his 1999 retroactive retirement

Filed in National by on July 16, 2012

Trying to prove that he was a Massachusetts resident and eligible to run for Governor, Romney testified that he worked at Bain after he now claims to have retired retroactively. If it sounds confusing it is because when you try to cover two lies with three new lies and a felonious report to the SEC, it gets confusing.

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  1. Geezer says:
    July 16, 2012 at 5:57 pm

    At this point I’m trying to come up with the last Republican nominee whose presidential campaign was this lame. Not Dole’s, because he was old and never got any traction against the incumbent. I guess it has to be Gerald Ford’s.

  2. Geezer says:
    July 16, 2012 at 6:02 pm

    And here’s the best (visual) joke of the day about retroactivity:

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/16/1110528/-Seamus-finally-on-the-inside

  3. Roland D. LeBay says:
    July 16, 2012 at 6:37 pm

    McCain’s 2008 file on Romney is now available for all to read.

  4. puck says:
    July 16, 2012 at 7:03 pm

    Here’s a regular .pdf of the McCain oppo (I hate Scribd). I’m pretty sure I’ve seen some of this stuff before.

    Here’s one thing that jumped out: Apparently Mitt has a record of denying his Bain involvment when it came to anything unpleasant. This from his 1994 layoffs and shutdown of Ampad:

    After First Defending Layoffs, Romney Later Tried To Convince Striking Workers He Was Not Involved By Showing Them Flowchart Of Bain Capital Management Structure. “Romney initially tried to justify the layoffs, defending them as necessary in corporate restructuring. Prodded by the workers to meet with them in Boston, Romney eventually did so, but even then, he further distanced himself, showing a diagram of Bain Capital’s corporate structure, claiming he was not to blame.” (Stephanie Ebbert, “Romney Seeks High Office With Confidence, Pedigree,” The Boston Globe, 8/11/02)

    and

    Romney Claimed He Was On Leave From Bain Capital When Ampad Layoffs Began, But Former Bain Executive Said Romney Bore Responsibility. “In 1994, Romney tried to distance himself from the Ampad controversy, since he was on a leave of absence during the initial downsizing. But [former Bain Capital executive and Ampad board member Marc] Wolpow, who came to Bain in 1990 from Drexel Burnham, the infamous junk bond company, says: ‘I reported directly to Mitt Romney … You can’t be CEO of Bain Capital and say, “I really don’t know what my guys were doing.”‘ And what were Romney’s guys doing? ‘My job was to maximize the profits to Bain Capital’s partners from the Ampad transaction,’ says Wolpow…” (Joan Vennochi, Op-Ed, “Questions Romney Shouldn’t Dodge,” The Boston Globe, 10/24/02)

    and

    Ampad CEO Had No Doubt Romney Authorized “Rollup” Strategy That Cost Workers Their Jobs. “[Charles Hanson III] was CEO of Ampad from 1992 until 1998, when Bain asked for his resignation. Hanson said that
    though he had had no direct contact with Romney after Bain took over Ampad in 1992, it was clear to him that ‘any significant direction we received would certainly have been authorized by him.’ Bain Capital, he said, was interested from the start in a ‘rollup’ of Ampad, a consolidation of its resources that clearly involved the layoffs the
    workers decried yesterday. And Hanson said he had no doubt Romney approved of that strategy.” (Yvonne Abraham, “Workers Press Romney On Layoffs,” The Boston Globe, 10/29/02)

  5. MJ says:
    July 16, 2012 at 7:25 pm

    Did Rmoney star in Hottub Time Machine?

  6. puck says:
    July 16, 2012 at 7:42 pm

    Here’s Mitt’s new campaign song:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g5Hz17C4is

  7. MJ says:
    July 16, 2012 at 9:22 pm

    Here’s his bio film that’s set to be shown at the GOP Convention:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8y6DJAeolo

  8. Liberal Elite says:
    July 16, 2012 at 10:18 pm

    @RDL “McCain’s 2008 file on Romney is now available for all to read.”

    Wow. That’s an amazing read. How is it possible that McCain even considered this guy?

    Why is he now even a viable candidate? What was the GOP thinking?

  9. Truth Teller says:
    July 17, 2012 at 6:28 am

    Mittens won’t comment on the Olympic uniforms made in China is it because when Mittens was in charge he had them made in Burma????? This guy just can’t help himself he loves to outsource along with firing people.

  10. jason330 says:
    July 17, 2012 at 8:28 am

    The McCain stuff reveals Romney’s tragic flaw. He wants all the money and prestige that comes with being a cold blooded badass, but he doesn’t want to be viewed as such.

    He cherishes his view of himself as one of the good guys, so there is a lot of lying and cognitive dissonance swirling around the times when he clearly wasn’t the good guy.

  11. Jason330 says:
    July 17, 2012 at 10:50 am

    Best Bain story cartoon so far.

    http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/07/17/tuesday-morning-open-thread-its-always-projection/

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