Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Mitt Romney
Found this online. As far as I know these are facts.....
Here are Some Interesting Facts About Mitt Romney
? His full Name is: Willard Mitt Romney
? He was Born: March 12, 1947 and is (therefore) 65 years old.
? His Father: George W. Romney was a Governor of the State of Michigan
? He was Raised in: Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
? He is Married to: Ann Romney since 1969; they have five children - all boys
? Education: B.A. from Brigham Young University , J.D. and M.B.A. from
Harvard University
? Religion: Mormon ? The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints
Working Background:
? After high school, he spent 30 months in France as a Mormon missionary.
? After going to both Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School
simultaneously, he passed the Michigan bar, but never worked as an
attorney.
? In 1984, he co-founded Bain Capital a private equity investment
firm, one of the largest such firms in the United States . As a
venture-capitalist, Romney's first major business deal involved
investing in a start-up office supply company with one store in
Massachusetts that sold office supplies. That company, called Staples,
now has over 2,000 stores and employs over 90,000 people.
? In 1994, he ran for Senator of Massachusetts and lost to Teddy
Kopechne Kennedy.
? He was President and C.E.O. of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.
? In 2002, he was elected Governor of the State of Massachusetts,
where he eliminated a 1.5 billion deficit.
Some More Interesting Facts about Romney:
? Bain Capital, starting with one small office supply store in
Massachusetts, turned it into Staples; now over 2,000 stores employing
90,000 people.
? Bain Capital also worked to perform the same kinds of business
miracles again and again, with companies like Domino's, Sealy,
Brookstone, Weather Channel, Burger King, Warner Music Group,
Dollarama, Home Depot and many others.
? He was an unpaid volunteer Mormon missionary in Paris for over 2 years.
? He was an unpaid volunteer campaign worker for his dad's
gubernatorial campaign - 1 year.
? He was an unpaid intern in his dad?s governor?s office for eight years.
? He was an unpaid bishop and president of his church for ten years.
? He was an unpaid President of the Salt Lake Olympic Committee for three years.
? He took no salary and was the unpaid Governor of Massachusetts for four years.
? He gave his entire inheritance (from his father) to charity.
That's a grand total of 28 years of unpaid service to his country, his
community and his church. Why? Because that's the kind of man Mitt
Romney is!
? Mitt Romney is one of the wealthiest, self-made men in our country
but has given more back to its citizens in terms of money, service and
time than most wealthy people.
? And in 2011 Mitt Romney gave over $4 million to charity, almost 19%
of his income....
? Obama gave 1%
? Joe Biden gave $300 or .0013%
More Mitt Romney Facts:
? He will show us his birth certificate
? He will show us his high school and college transcripts
? He will show us his social security card.
? He will show us his law degree.
? He will show us his draft notice.
? He will show us his medical records.
? He will show us his income tax records.
? He will show us he has nothing to hide.
Romney has been selected as the best representative from the present
field of Republicans and here's what we know:
? We know what religion he is, and that he won't desecrate the flag,
bow down to foreign powers, or squander my money on vacations.
? We know he has the ability to turn this financial debacle that the
"Spending President" has gotten us into.
? We didn't know that when Obama said he'd give us change, he meant
nickels and dimes, and he would get the big bucks.
? We won't like all the things necessary to recover from this debt,
but someone with Romney's background can do it.
? I also like the fact that he can and will talk to 3rd graders
WITHOUT a TELEPROMPTER!
But, on the minus side, He never was a "Community Organizer", never
took drugs or smoked pot. Never got drunk.
Did not associate with communists or terrorists. Nor did he attend a church whose pastor called for God to damn the US.
Re: Mitt Romney
Thanks for the wikipedia copy and paste. My mind is totally changed now.
I found it in a political forum.
Some of this isn't completely accurate. Romney was paid after the Winter Olympics, and also received a severance, which he donated to charity. And the $4M to charity... pretty sure a big chunk of that is tithes to the Mormon church.
Oh. Then nevermind. It's legit if it's from an uncited forum.
Also, the Obamas gave more to charity last year than the Romneys (20%?), if that matters to you. Here's their tax return - http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/president_obama_complete_return_2011.pdf
I keep hearing that Barack is so, so intelligent, yet I have no idea about his grades except what HE said they were. In the Maraniss book, there's only his assertion that he had a B+ average, then a 3.7. I know that I have my college transcript at home. It wouldn't be so hard to find and document.
About the self-made man, I heard that Romney gave his inheritance from his father to charity.
These two are actually false. He will not show us his tax returns.
I was wondering about that. I thought I had missed that he was going to release them now or something.
Except for all the money in stocks his father gave him... =/= "self made" man.
This thread makes my brain hurt. Seriously, a copy and paste of "facts" (many of which aren't even facts) is supposed to tell me what?
And yeah, you absolutely can't tell me that he is a self made man growing up the way he did. That's like saying Paris Hilton is a self made woman.
Don't forget those posthumous baptisms of Holocaust victims!
No offense, cats, but I don't really consider you the best judge of a man's character.
Most of these facts seem largely irrelevant to whether or not he should be president. His policy proposals are much more important to me than some biased list of when he vacationed in Paris.
I do find it amusing that he was an "unpaid" volunteer for his dad for several years. Because, yes, I'm sure he didn't see a penny or a stock option from his father in that time.