Race 4 2008 Early Morning Essential Reads

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1. bethtopaz Says:
   October 31st, 2007 at 2:29 am

   Mitt Romney:

   The cat’s meow
   Top Drawer
   The Cream of the Crop
   The Bomb

   Go Mitt Romney!! Romney for President 2008!

   It’s great to be on the side of a winner!

2. bjalder26 Says:
   October 31st, 2007 at 2:51 am

   Supposedly all the other campaigns “hate” Romney. What does hating a man of proven integrity indicate about another campaign?

   “Mitt Romney was faced with a crisis in July 1996. The 14-year-old daughter of Robert Gay, a partner in Romney’s new venture capital firm, Bain Capital, had disappeared. As it turned out, she had attended a rave party in New York City and had become 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 try to find Gay’s daughter.
   Romney set up a command center in a conference room at the LaGuardia Marriott just outside Manhattan. He hired a private detective firm to assist with the search and established a toll-free number for tips, coordinating the effort with the New York City Police Department, but he still wasn’t satisfied. He raced through his Rolodex and called everyone Bain did business with in New York. He asked them to help his company find their friend’s missing daughter.
   The company’s accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and its law firm, put up posters on street poles with a photo of the missing teenager. Cashiers at Duane Reade Pharmacies, which was owned by Bain Capital, put fliers in the bag of each shopper.
   Romney and others from the Bain Capital posse trudged through every part of New York, even scouring Central Park, and talked with everyone they could – prostitutes, drug addicts – anyone who may have seen her. They also made rounds at the local nightclubs at 3 a.m., hoping someone somewhere could identify her.
   The same day the Romney team came to New York, the hunt made the evening news. Television cameras showed photos of the girl and video of investment banker types prowling through Central Park.
   The next day, a teenage boy she was with phoned in. He asked if there was a reward. But the boy got nervous and quickly hung up. Luckily, the police traced the call to a home in Montville Township, N.J.
   Gay’s daughter, when they found her in the basement of that home, was shivering through detox after a massive dose of ecstasy. Doctors later told Gay that he was indeed fortunate – his daughter probably would not have lasted another day.
   “It was the most amazing thing, and I’ll never forget this to the day I die,” Gay says, adding of Romney’s intervention, “I’m not sure we would have gotten her back without him.”
   It is often during a crisis that we gain insight into a person’s real character. Romney’s action demonstrated leadership, loyalty, and selflessness – attributes that Americans just might like to see in a president of the United States.”

3. econ grad stud Says:
   October 31st, 2007 at 8:00 am

   Well it’s Reformation day today. It’s All Saint’s Eve. It’s also my birthday so I won’t be hanging around here very much. Later guys.

4. Steve Says:
   October 31st, 2007 at 5:23 pm

   Hey Aron,

   One thing I’d hate for the public to miss is Rudy’s comment on the Merril Lynch CEO’s golden parachute for his awful job.

   ” On Fox, Giuliani also is asked today about the pay package of the fired Merrill Lynch CEO, sent off with a going away package worth $161 million:

   ““We’re great because we have a tremendously great free market and private market. And owners and shareholders have to decide what the pay is. If they want to pay people too much, they’re the owners, they’re the shareholders; they can do it… that’s a much better way for our economy to grow than a bunch of sectional (ph) planners in Washington saying, well, that should be somebody’s pay and that should be somebody’s pay.””

   He is dead wrong here. It’s instances like these which hurt the economy, investors, and the business world. While you can’t expect presidential candidates to be on the ball 24/7, I think he is dead wrong on this issue.

5. Race 4 2008 Early Morning Essential Reads — 2008 President election candidates Says:
   February 25th, 2008 at 6:00 am

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