re: #394 goddamnedfrank

So far the fact checkers haven’t addressed the ballot commission testimony, any it demands an entire revisiting of Romney’s stated history.

Yes they have: Do Bain SEC documents suggest Mitt Romney is a criminal?

The report also stated: “The Respondent remained actively employed at Bain Capital until January 1, 1999, at which time he left to take the position of President and Chief Executive Officer of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.”

The report showed that Romney remained on the board of three companies, two of which had Bain connections — Staples and LifeLike Co. The report said he returned to Massachusetts “to attend meetings at Staples,” but does not mention that he attended any meetings at Bain, even as it provides a long list of social events that brought him back to Massachusetts. One would think that if Romney was trying to prove continued links to Massachusetts, he would have emphasized he kept doing work for Bain.

In other words, an official state investigation concluded that Romney no longer worked at Bain as of early 1999, and also was working “12 hours a day, six days a week” on the Olympics from 1999 to 2002. That also would seem to trump the SEC filings.

TPM is also hyping the story this morning but neither TPM or Huffpo, unlike the WaPo fact checker, link to the documents for reference. What Huffpo and TPM don’t tell us is the results of the investigation.