Tuesday, July 03, 2012

Mitt Romney hates abortion so much he'll make millions off of it...

Well, let us see how much this gets reported elsewhere:
Earlier this year, Mitt Romney nearly landed in a politically perilous controversy when the Huffington Post reported that in 1999 the GOP presidential candidate had been part of an investment group that invested $75 million in Stericycle, a medical-waste disposal firm that has been attacked by anti-abortion groups for disposing aborted fetuses collected from family planning clinics. Coming during the heat of the GOP primaries, as Romney tried to sell South Carolina Republicans on his pro-life bona fides, the revelation had the potential to damage the candidate's reputation among values voters already suspicious of his shifting position on abortion. But Bain Capital, the private equity firm Romney founded, tamped down the controversy. The company said Romney left the firm in February 1999 to run the troubled 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and likely had nothing to with the deal. The matter never became a campaign issue. But documents filed by Bain and Stericycle with the Securities and Exchange Commission—and obtained by Mother Jones—list Romney as an active participant in the investment. And this deal helped Stericycle, a company with a poor safety record, grow, while yielding tens of millions of dollars in profits for Romney and his partners. The documents—one of which was signed by Romney—also contradict the official account of Romney's exit from Bain.
Behold your great white hypocrite.

5 comments:

DanF said...

On a related note, the whole Before Bain/After Bain bullshit his campaign is pulling shouldn't wash Mitt of Bain's sins. It was Romney's company. He hired the people who ultimately replaced him. He developed the corporate culture. Bain has his DNA all over it. It's not like he left because Bain's business practices violated a deeply held principle (assuming he has any). He taught them how to rig the system so that Bain always makes a profit. Bain first, everyone else, whatever.

Montag said...

So, the Rmoneybot profited from abortion.

Even the scourge of the religious right, Planned Parenthood, doesn't do that. It's a non-profit.

pansypoo said...

butbutbut money trumps ideology. right? RIGHT?!?

Yastreblyansky said...

Give the man a break--maybe he had an opportunity to baptize the little blastocysts and send them off to Mormon heaven.

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