The Staples Affair - did Romney lie?

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The Staples Affair

Did Mitt Romney lie in court about the value of a friend's Staples stock? In a messy divorce, Tom Stemberg, founder of Staples, had Mitt Romney testify as to the value of Staples stock. Bain Capital had been instrumental in establishing Staples, hence had a very big stake in it. The company, however, had not yet gone public. Was Mitt saving his friend's financial ass by purposely undervaluing the stock? Some time later, Staples went public at a much greater value.

Romney lying about something/anything would certainly not be new: some argue that his entire campaign has been a lie (check out the Costco interview as reviewed by David Letterman). However, an alleged lie under oath for purposes of cheating a friend's ex-wife out of million$ cannot sit very well with even some hard-core Romney supporters.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Six-Oc ... 4-321.html

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The Staples Affair

Did Mitt Romney lie in court about the value of a friend's Staples stock? In a messy divorce, Tom Stemberg, founder of Staples, had Mitt Romney testify as to the value of Staples stock. Bain Capital had been instrumental in establishing Staples, hence had a very big stake in it. The company, however, had not yet gone public. Was Mitt saving his friend's financial ass by purposely undervaluing the stock? Some time later, Staples went public at a much greater value.

Romney lying about something/anything would certainly not be new: some argue that his entire campaign has been a lie (check out the Costco interview as reviewed by David Letterman). However, an alleged lie under oath for purposes of cheating a friend's ex-wife out of million$ cannot sit very well with even some hard-core Romney supporters.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Six-Oc ... 4-321.html

Does anyone really think Donald Trump or Gloria Allred have anything on the candidates that the opposition teams don't already know about? Both candidates have teams of dirt diggers who have spent months and months trying to find anything on their opponent, but somehow Gloria Allred and/or Donald Trump found the smoking gun that they all missed. Nothing revealed today will affect the election in any way.

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Does anyone really think Donald Trump or Gloria Allred have anything on the candidates that the opposition teams don't already know about? Both candidates have teams of dirt diggers who have spent months and months trying to find anything on their opponent, but somehow Gloria Allred and/or Donald Trump found the smoking gun that they all missed. Nothing revealed today will affect the election in any way.

I have a good friend who worked as part of the Romney campaign in 2008 and had frequent contact with Romney and the "inner circle" of advisors. After Romney was out, my friend told me about the files each candidate has on all the other candidates (against both their own party's candidates in the primaries, and the other party's candidates for the general election).

The problem isn't whether or not you have "dirt" (although some candidates have more dirt than others). The strategy is knowing what you want to use, when you want to use it, and what the cost of using it will be. For example, once Romney knew he wasn't going to be the nominee, he had to figure out what opportunities there might be for him with McCain, and keep that in mind before going nuclear and ruining any chances he might have had for VP or something else.

So I suspect both campaigns do know about these surprises, but have decided they aren't useful or needed, or would do more damage to themselves.

Trump and Allred are such vain, vacuous self-promoters anyway that I suspect anything they say or do is 99% about getting their names in the paper.