{"id":8354,"date":"2012-07-13T10:19:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T17:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8354"},"modified":"2012-07-13T10:19:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T17:19:24","slug":"felon-or-just-a-liar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/13\/felon-or-just-a-liar\/","title":{"rendered":"Felon or Just a Liar?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As usual, Willard has a problem.  He has tried to take credit for jobs created after his supposed departure from Bain in 1999.  When establishing residency for his run for office in 2002, he claimed that his sole occupation was as CEO of Bain.  But when called to account for wrecking American families by offshoring their jobs, between 1999 and 2002 he has claimed that he is not responsible, because he had retired.  Willard\u2019s problem is that he wants to have it both ways.  But it gets even worse.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"13RomneyFelon\"On the very day Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s campaign unveiled a television ad<\/a> directly accusing President Barack Obama of being dishonest, news reports revealed apparent discrepancies between federal filings and Romney’s statements on his role leading Bain Capital.<\/p>\n

The Boston Globe, building on earlier Web reports, wrote on Thursday<\/a> that despite Romney’s claim that he relinquished control of his investment firm in 1999, multiple filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission still list him as sole owner, president, and CEO<\/strong> of the company until February 2001.<\/p>\n

"Either Mitt Romney through his own words and his own signature was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the SEC, which is a felony, or he was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the American people to avoid responsibility for some of the consequences of his investments<\/strong>," said Stephanie Cutter, deputy campaign manager for Obama, during a conference call with reporters on Thursday\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Despite my humorous graphic, filing criminal charges against Willard over actions that seem more like a tort than a crime may be stretching it.<\/font><\/p>\n

Rachel Maddow provided detail with Christopher Roland.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s the deal. Once upon a time I was President, CEO, Chairman of the Board and sole stockholder of a small business. While I was on vacation, the employee that I left in charge made a mistake that caused a client over $10,000 in damage. I paid. If I were Willard, I could have said, "I am not responsible. I wasn’t there." But I had enough respect to believe that the people involved were bright enough to know that, if I’m the President, CEO, Chairman of the Board and sole stockholder, that means I’m the boss, and I AM responsible. Willard does not have that much respect for our intelligence. He doesn’t think we’re bright enough to know that he is responsible. <\/font><\/p>\n

Whether Willard is a felon or just a liar is unimportant. Either way, he is not fit to hold public office.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As usual, Willard has a problem.  He has tried to take credit for jobs created after his supposed departure from Bain in 1999.  When establishing residency for his run for office in 2002, he claimed that his sole occupation was as CEO of Bain.  But when called to account for wrecking American families by offshoring […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}