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cali

(114,904 posts)
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 07:47 AM Aug 2012

"My grandfather immigrated to this country from Mexico" LIE

His grandfather was the son of two American citizens.

"George Romney himself was unequivocal.

"I am a natural born citizen. My parents were American citizens. I was a citizen at birth," he said, according to a typewritten statement found in his archives."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47608339/ns/politics/t/romneys-birth-certificate-evokes-his-fathers-controversy/#.UECg7SLIB2E

http://news.yahoo.com/mitt-romneys-mexican-roots-033457860--abc-news-politics.html

Romney also claimed that his father was a humble carpenter and didn't go to college. Not so much.

Partly to stay near Lenore,[21] Romney spent the next year as a junior college student at the co-located Latter-day Saints University, where he was elected student body president.[37] He was also president of the booster club and played on the basketball team that won the Utah–Idaho Junior College Tournament.[37]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Romney_%28politician%29

As a lobbyist, Romney frequently competed on behalf of the aluminum industry against the copper industry, and defended Alcoa against charges of being a monopoly.[56][57] He also represented the Aluminum Wares Association.[28][44] In the early 1930s, he helped get aluminum windows installed in the U.S. Department of Commerce Building,[57] at the time the largest office building in the world.[58]

Romney joined the National Press Club and the Burning Tree and Congressional Country Clubs; one reporter watching Romney hurriedly play golf at the latter said, "There is a young man who knows where he is going."[59][60] Lenore's cultural refinement and hosting skills helped him in business, and the couple met the Hoovers, the Roosevelts, and other prominent Washington figures.[34][59] He was chosen by Pyke Johnson, a Denver newspaperman and automotive industry trade representative he met at the Press Club, to join the newly formed Trade Association Advisory Committee to the National Recovery Administration.[59] The committee's work continued even after the agency was declared unconstitutional in 1935.[59] During 1937 and 1938, Romney was also president of the Washington Trade Association Executives.[28]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Romney_%28politician%29

Is there anything at all this fucker doesn't lie about?

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"My grandfather immigrated to this country from Mexico" LIE (Original Post) cali Aug 2012 OP
Is there anything at all this fucker doesn't lie about? Flashmann Aug 2012 #1
Newly discovered family portrait of Grandpa: jsr Aug 2012 #2
His gf actually repatriated. ananda Aug 2012 #3
lying for the lord. only the end matters to these smarmy individuals. Javaman Aug 2012 #4

Javaman

(62,521 posts)
4. lying for the lord. only the end matters to these smarmy individuals.
Fri Aug 31, 2012, 09:34 AM
Aug 2012

the means, meh, not so much.

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