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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLemme get this right: Mitts net value is 250 to 650 MILLION$$ Is there a Mitt
Foundation? Anywhere? To GIVE BACK something? Like tons of
scholarships??
I noes....his running for President is his way of payback to the
Nation.....so he feels....
I see it as an "Investment"...and we all noes what he gets for HIS
INVESTMENTS???
Dats right...BIG BUCKS.....
This MITT Dude wants to raid our $$$$$ anyway he can....Thats
What he DOES...he is a Venture Capitalist...its been his whole life,
investing and profiting......
This is bad shit....we can always get NOBODY
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Lemme get this right: Mitts net value is 250 to 650 MILLION$$ Is there a Mitt (Original Post)
opihimoimoi
Jan 2012
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The Romney's are their own charity....they're tapped out from all that giving.
Historic NY
Jan 2012
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Historic NY
(37,453 posts)1. The Romney's are their own charity....they're tapped out from all that giving.
WASHINGTON In the Republican primary struggle to define the most reliably conservative presidential candidate, Mitt Romney has put his money where his mouth is. Over the past six years and two presidential campaigns, Romney has donated at least $260,000 from his family charity foundation to GOP causes and influential conservative groups that could deepen his ties within the party and establish his credibility on the right.
http://www.pewforum.org/Religion-News/Romney-charity-has-history-of-donations-to-conservative-groups;-Will-it-help-his-GOP-image-.aspx
http://www2.tbo.com/news/breaking-news/2011/dec/24/romney-charity-used-for-conservative-donations-ar-340339/
opihimoimoi
(52,426 posts)4. A DeFacto Investing Lobbyist is he....well shine my boots...
Lonnie Donegan
Phlem
(6,323 posts)2. correction
"...he is a Venture Capitalist..."
to
...he is a Vulture Capitalist...
yea that's much better.
-p
opihimoimoi
(52,426 posts)6. agreed...he now wants to be VULTURE PRESIDENT of the USA
RandySF
(59,221 posts)3. As a devout Mormon, I'm sure he tithed his 10%
Some of which probably went toward passing Prop 8 in California.
opihimoimoi
(52,426 posts)5. The man is Pathetic....i am so sorry....we need better
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)7. Well, there's this...
http://m.wsbradio.com/ap/ap/education/romney-charity-used-for-conservative-donations/nF8RL/
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Romney's main outlet for charity is the Tyler foundation. It was originally called the Ann D. and Mitt Romney Charitable Foundation and renamed for a street where the couple once had a home in Belmont, Mass. The foundation, which listed $10 million in assets in 2010, has given more than $7 million in charity over the past decade.
Most of its assets come from direct grants from the Romneys or from Romney-owned stocks and other holdings. Until the most recent 2010 tax disclosure, the Tyler foundation had previously provided detailed lists of stock holdings the Romneys had bought and sold to increase the charity's funds. Earlier this year, an AP review of earlier Tyler holdings showed that some investments included companies whose interests conflicted with GOP positions including firms tied to the Chinese government, companies that did business in Iran and firms working in stem cell research.
Romney had earlier declared that the blind trust lawyer overseeing Tyler's finances would end such investments. A trust official indicated those investments are being eliminated, but the most recent tax filing does not include details of any specific investments and lists only total holdings.
Most of the Romneys' monetary gifts have gone to non-political causes, including more than $4.7 million to the Mormon Church, reflecting the family's faith, and hundreds of thousands more to research on cancer and multiple sclerosis (which afflicts his wife, Ann); academics (Harvard Business School and Brigham Young University) and athletics (a variety of Olympic and other sports groups).
Between 1999 and 2004, the Romneys' giving went almost exclusively to non-political charities. Their gifts helped Boston and Massachusetts-based charities aiding education programs, deprived children and the homeless although one $5,000 contribution to an AIDS relief group in 2004 was later criticized by conservative activists for supporting a gay rights agenda.
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Apparently, however, since he's been running allegedly as a conservative, the donations have been heading rightward.
opihimoimoi
(52,426 posts)8. I guess he has covered his okole for the subject....In my mind, however,
much more could be done with nthat kind of resources...but then, thats me
Willard is Willard...