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Extract mitt romney from his tenure at bain. some of the jobs were shift overseas after 1999. the fact is that mitt romney is ceo and sole owner of bain capital through 2001. sources say romney never referred to the firm and play nod role after february of 1999. obama campaign uploaded the disclosure forms that showed romney in 2001 continuing to list bain and the various subsidiaries as the employer often with him as sole owner. the same form shows romney lifting the position with bain as the former executive and specifying that the role was passive with no management capacity. a lot of money is involved here. bill burton, the former obama white house aid, running a left wing super pack, priorities usa, sought to explain why the obama-biden team has not met its own fundraising goal. large number of folks supporting president obama but have been sitting on the sidelines. they look at mitt romney and say is really going ....
Money. david axelrod saying the fundraising goal could top $1 billion. so it takes time to build organization, it takes time to raise the kind of money to compete with the kind of money we re going to see on the other side. what is the ballpark you re talking about? you see people throwing out figures like a billion dollars. i m not going to put a number on it. obviously that would be more than what was spent last time. i don t know if in this economy that s going to be the case. but it would be a lot of money, more than anybody would like to see spent. a billion dollars. a billion dollars? what could you do with a billion dollars. let s take a closer look. maybe the president doesn t want to use it. the average annual salary in america, if you took 26,000 people making the average annual salary in america, 26,000 people, that would give you a billion dollars. so that s a lot of money. that s one way to look at it. let s say the president raised a billion and he didn t use it a ....
About. but we have middle class folks, even in arkansas, who want stuff like health care reform and they all want a fair shake in the workplace as well. what democrats really want is to have democrats act like democrats. this could be really interesting. i think there could be a lot of bill halters all over the country. this could send shock waves right through the democratic caucus. if you don t listen to your base, you could be next. that s the message. the money is starting to fly in to halter s campaign, progressive groups going after it. they ve already sprung into action and raised 66% of the fundraising goal and meant that, for the first week, totaling more than $330,000. the people who wrote the $25 checks to obama just cannot stand blue dog democrats. now the president of the united states is going to have to wait and a tough one. will he support a candidate that ....