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| Gawker posts 950 pages of confidential Bain documents related to Romney | ||
| 2012-08-26 | ||
FORTUNE -- Gawker today published what it's calling The Bain Files, hundreds of pages of audited financials and private placement memoranda for old Bain Capital funds. Let me save you some time: There is nothing in there that will inform your opinion of Willard MittRomney ...former governor of Massachussetts, currently the presumptive Publican nominee for president. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney's charisma is best defined as soporific, which is probably why he is leading the Publican field. On the plus side, he isn't President B.O... How do I know? Because I saw many of the exact same documents months ago, after requesting them from a Bain Capital investor. What I quickly learned was that there was little of interest, except perhaps for private equity geeks who want to know exactly how much Bain paid for a particular company back in 2006. Sure I would have loved the pageviews, but not at the expense of tricking readers into clicking on something of so little value. | ||
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #11 The Donks need to drop this losing issue. They are pitching the class warfare thing much to hard. The only ones paying much attention are the Donks. They have not been nearly so critical about the Kennedys, John Fn Kerry, Pelosi, or any of the other Donks. So it seems to be a one-way street. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2012-08-26 19:11 |
| #10 Gawd, Matt, I'd pay BIG bucks to see that. ;-p |
| Posted by: Barbara 2012-08-26 16:01 |
| #9 Questions You Will Not See Barry Asked: "Mr. President, as a former editor of the Harvard Law Review, can you explain to me whether Bain's PPM for XYZ Corporation was fully Reg D compliant? If not, how would you have written it?" |
| Posted by: Matt 2012-08-26 15:39 |
| #8 So we have one candidate who knows how to make money and another candidate knows how to tax it, print it, borrow it and spend it. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2012-08-26 15:04 |
| #7 So the Obama Ops team drops documents at the site where I get my Snookie the Guida updates. The same site whose parent company is headquartered in (drum roll) the Grand Caymans. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2012-08-26 13:46 |
| #6 Anything in there for successful business tips? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2012-08-26 13:13 |
| #5 any idea how Gawker got Bain Capital records. Oh wait, might wanna talk to Jonathan Lavine |
| Posted by: Frank G 2012-08-26 11:57 |
| #4 Big deal. Romney made money, hired and fired people at a real job. Bambi wishes he can claim that instead of being nothing more than a professional rabble rouser. I wonder what the October surprise will be. I'm sure it will be true to form with this administrations completely loathsome behavior. |
| Posted by: Dikhed Al Fuqwad 2012-08-26 08:53 |
| #3 So the Obama Ops team drops documents at the site where I get my Snookie the Guida updates. Shockingly reveals Mitt has a diverse and tax-efficient portfolio -- just like a good 401(k). |
| Posted by: regular joe 2012-08-26 08:44 |
| #2 Shows how dirty the Obama campaign is. When's Obama going to release the information you'd expect to find on a normal C.V. (resumé). Release those school records! |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2012-08-26 07:10 |
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| Posted by: junkiron 2012-08-26 04:51 |