I'm still not voting for Romney but this is just damned cool

[Nuclear Unicorn]

Credit where due --

As we reported then, based on contemporary news reports, the girl sneaked away on July 6, 1996, to go to a rave party in New York City, where she took the drug Ecstasy. She had told her parents she was playing tennis.

When she didn't return, Boston-based Bain Capital, where Romney was founder and CEO, essentially shut down to help search for Gay's 14-year-old daughter Melissa.

Bain Capital's 50 employees went to New York, where they convinced more than 200 other people to help search the streets for two days. They printed and passed out fliers. Romney clearly had a leading role in the company's operations, but news reports from the time also said other Bain partners helped coordinate the search effort.

According to news reports, the teen was found in suburban New Jersey. A teen-aged boy, who took her in after her partying, called authorities late on July 11...

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/jan/30/chain-email/viral-internet-story-says-mitt-romney-helped-locat/

Still not voting for him though.

[Happyhippychick]

1. Glad you're "still not voting for him" but not understanding why we would think a DU member would.

[movonne]

3. I was wondering the same thing...

[Nuclear Unicorn]

4. If you ever note something positive about a GOPer "accusations" tend to follow.

I've caught flak for marrying a former soldier who is also conservative. Justice Kagan caught a lot of flak this morning because she concurred with a Roberts majority opinion. It makes one a tad -- skittish.

[Happyhippychick]

6. Why would we need to note something positive about a GOPer?

I'm not being snarky, I'm being totally serious. Why start a thread to praise a republican who did something that *might* (emphasis on might) not be self-serving several years ago. It's not something that is in the news today, why bring it up?

[rurallib]

14. for one thing, that was about 6 Rmoney incarnations ago

doubt his personna would allow that now.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Politifact=Politi-lies...

So chances are, it's NOT true...

[movonne]

5. I thought that they closed down...

[Demonaut]

7. is it fair to note that it was his partner at work and that partner may have been also Mormon

a question that needs answering, similar to the Smart abduction in Utah

[Nuclear Unicorn]

8. Are you suggesting there was some sort of sex cult kidnapping

that the NYC police are complicitous in covering-up or lying about to benefit Romney and the only real evidence is the fact Romney and his partners are Mormons?

[Demonaut]

9. huh?....

no, that the Mormon community looks out for its own

[Nuclear Unicorn]

11. What are you suggesting? I honestly can't figure it out.

Why would they need to look out for their own?

[paulk]

15. because that's what they do?

have you ever had much experience with Mormons?

[Demonaut]

16. Robert C Gay, partner of Romney's at Bain Capital

also a member of the LDS church, I still think it's admirable that the LDS community looks out for its own I just don't believe that if the child had been of another faith that the company would have shut down
again, it's just my belief

[frogmarch]

10. Snopes says it's true

http://www.snopes.com/politics/romney/search.asp

And that Mitt had a dog crate on top of his car, ready to take the girl home if he found her. OK, I made that part up.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

12. I chortled.

[Enrique]

13. We take care of our own

[trumad]

17. Wow!!! Romney is so fucking cool for helping look for his business partners daughter.

Seriously---you think this is so fucking cool?

It's his fucking business partners daughter and I can bet you a Benjamin it was the business partner who got the search going.