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Romney Advisor Ed Gillespie To Candy Crowley: Romney ‘Retired Retroactively’ From Bain
Jul 16th
Posted by nicemessages in Top Images
Source: www.mediaite.com – Sunday, July 15, 2012
Romney campaign advisor Ed Gillespie sat down with Candy Crowley on CNN’s State of the Union today to defend Mitt Romney from attacks over his tenure at Bain Capital from President Obama ‘s campaign. He explained that Romney’s name may have been on a few documents, but he took a leave of absence to focus on the Olympics and when he didn’t return to Bain, he “retired retroactively.” RELATED: Bob Schieffer Confronts Obama Staffer Who Said Romney Either Lied Or May Have Committed Felony Gillespie said he couldn’t believe Romney was actually being accused of criminal activity by an Obama staffer, and attacked the president for being willing to “say or do anything” in order to stay in power. Crowley told Gillespie that doesn’t mean Romney’s tenure at Bain isn’t incredibly confusing, asking him why there is a discrepancy between Romney’s public statements and information in the SEC filings. Gillespie said that Romney was devoting his time after 1999 to preparing for the 2002 Olympics. “Because of Mitt Romney’s leadership skills, he was called on to do it, and he ended up not going back at all and retired retroactively to February of 1999 as a result.” Even though Romney’s name was still on subsequent filings, Gillespie made it clear Romney was not involved in management or the day-to-day proceedings of the business, and blasted Obama’s “Chicago-style politics” for trying to make the whole thing seem “sinister” and into a huge distracti
Romney Advisor Ed Gillespie To Candy Crowley: Romney ‘Retired Retroactively’ From Bain
Gillespie: Obama ‘one of most divisive presidents in history’
Apr 29th
Posted by nicemessages in Top News
Source: www.politico.com – Sunday, April 29, 2012
Suggestions by Barack Obama’s reelection team that Mitt Romney might not have acted to kill Osama bin Laden are “a bridge too far” and “a sign of a desperate campaign,” Romney adviser Ed Gillespie charged Sunday. Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Gillespie was asked for his reaction to a video clip in which Vice President Joe Biden last week told a campaign audience “Thanks to President Obama, bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. You have to ask yourself: If Gov. Romney had been president, could you have used the same slogan in reverse?” Gillespie, a former Republican National Committee chairman, responded: “This is one of the reasons President Obama has become one of the most divisive presidents in American history. He took something that was a unifying event for all Americans – an event that Gov. Romney congratulated him and the military and the intelligence analysts in our government for completing the mission in terms of killing Osama bin Laden – and he’s managed to turn it into a divisive partisan political attack.” Gillespie rejected a comparison, made by host David Gregory, to an ad praising former President George W. Bush’s leadership in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City and the Pentagon. “There is a little bit of a distinction here, David,” Gillespie said. “It’s the extra iteration. It’s the attack that Gov. Romney wouldn’t have done,” he added, asserting that any president wo
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