Romneys are worth up to $250m (click here)
Personal finance data are detailed
By Lisa Wangsness and Ross Kerber, Globe Staff August 14, 2007
Mitt Romney, by far the wealthiest presidential candidate, and his wife, Ann, are worth $190 million to $250 million, his advisers said yesterday after filing a personal financial disclosure statement with the Federal Election Commission....
Personal finance data are detailed
By Lisa Wangsness and Ross Kerber, Globe Staff August 14, 2007
Mitt Romney, by far the wealthiest presidential candidate, and his wife, Ann, are worth $190 million to $250 million, his advisers said yesterday after filing a personal financial disclosure statement with the Federal Election Commission....
...Malt said yesterday that Romney had no knowledge of their contents until yesterday, when they were made public. Romney also has a separate trust for his five sons and their families that is worth about $100 million, which was not required to be reported under federal disclosure requirements and is not part of the filing, his advisers said.
About half of Romney's total assets belong to trusts held by Romney, Malt said, and therefore theoretically could be liquidated for use by his presidential campaign. The other half belongs to his wife, Ann. Earlier this year, Romney said that having to help finance his own campaign would be "akin to a nightmare," but since then he has lent his campaign $9 million....
...Malt also got rid of gambling stock this year, earning Romney between $100,001 and $1,000,000 on the sale of MGM-Mirage stock, according to the report, though Malt did not comment on that holding specifically. The forms show that Romney also owns $50,000 to $100,000 worth of stock in China Petroleum & Chemical, which has become controversial in the United States because of its links with Sudan....
My first reaction is, you've got to be kidding me? What agenda does this man have because he is a chameleon that has changed every color of 'Bush' since his first trial run for office some three years ago. My second reaction is, what was Teresa Heinz-Kerry worth?
Everyone will say, "Got something against million/billionaires?" My reply is, "Do elections for president have something against paupers (click here)?" I am serious here. I want to vomit to realize the power brokering of candidates running for the Executive Branch due to their wealth and faux loyalities. The current bozos have broken the backs of many Americans while making a joke of prospective homeowners that actually took 'a second chance' seriously. I doubt those folks will vote for a Republican ever again.
Bush's economy has a been a false economy. It is completely based in Tax and Spend. The Spending wasn't even productive spending so much as pork barrel projects to 'enhance' the chances the millionaires would be re-elected to produce one slimy spending program after another.
Romney has an agenda and it's not to be the best president the USA could ever imagine. He has no moral backbone. He has fashioned himself after Bush without the endorsement of any party members. See, the Republicans actually believe their best shot is with Guilliani while he tries to ride the 911 wave.
Romney has no character strength and those that voted for him in Massachusetts don't even recognize him now for his 'change' to harvest the far right of the Republican Party.
I don't want a millionaire willing to spend his own bank roll on a campaign to insure his election in the White House. It's supposed to be 'the people' that elect a president and the vice, not a personal bank roll with ego driven desires and faux agendas for the country. Romney is not a man of the people so much as a self made candidate willing to buy his way to the White House.
I don't think so.
