What if Romney runs off to Mexico to avoid U.S. laws like his grandfather Gaskell Romney did?
Boy wouldn't that be a hoot?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaskell_Romney
Gaskell Romney
Gaskell Samuel Romney (1871–1955) is regarded as a father of the Romneys, a U.S. political family. Romney was born in St. George, Utah, the son of Miles Park Romney and Hannah Hood Hill. Miles Park Romney became a builder, moved to Utah, married one woman, did mission work in England, returned to Utah and married another woman on orders from Brigham Young. He became quite prominent in the Mormon community, building Brigham Young’s home and helping to defeat a congressional anti-polygamy law. Miles Park Romney and his three wives and various children were then sent to settle St. Johns, Ariz., as part of the church leadership’s plan to settle across the entire American West. St. Johns was not particularly welcoming to the Mormon newcomers, and after various threats to hang the lot of them, the polygamous Romney family was told to try Mexico instead.
Gaskell Romney moved to Mexico when his father helped to found the Mormon colony in Colonia Dublán, Galeana, Chihuahua, Mexico in 1885. The Romney families lost their holdings in Chihuahua during the Mexican Revolution and in 1912 Romney moved back to the United States. Eventually he was reimbursed by the Mexican government for some of his losses. He married in 1895 to Anna Amelia Pratt. Romney was the father of five sons: Maurice, Douglas, Miles Pratt Romney, George W. Romney, Lawrence and Charles. Gaskell himself was a candidate for County Commissioner 1931 as a Republican. He died in Salt Lake City, Utah on March 7, 1955 and is buried in Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park in the city.
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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/romneys-family-came-from-a-polygamy-commune-says-montana-gov/
Apr 20, 2012 5:12pm
Romney’s ‘Family Came From a Polygamy Commune,’ says Montana Gov.
Mitt Romney will likely struggle nationally, particularly with women, because his father was “born on a polygamy commune in Mexico,” said Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer.
Schweitzer, a Democrat, made the comment in an interview with the Daily Beast about Romney’s chances in swing states.
The governor said Romney will also have trouble attracting Latino voters, adding that it was ”kind of ironic given that his family came from a polygamy commune in Mexico, but then he’d have to talk about his family coming from a polygamy commune in Mexico, given the gender discrepancy.”
That part of Romney’s family history will particularly irk women, Schweitzer said, because they are ”not great fans of polygamy, 86 percent were not great fans of polygamy.” Schweitzer added that he did not believe Romney, raised in the Mormon Church and married to one woman for more than four decades, is a polygamist.
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