[Quote]:
When Mitt Romney at a private fundraiser dismissed all Barack Obama voters as moochers and victims—showing disdain for nearly half of the American electorate—he was speaking at the home of controversial private equity manager Marc Leder in Boca Raton on May 17, 2012.
[..]
But Leder does differ from Romney in one significant fashion: how he likes to have a certain sort of fun. In August 2011, the New York Post reported,
It was as if the Playboy Mansion met the East EBond at a wild party at private-equity titan Marc Leder’s Bridgehampton estate, where guests cavorted nude in the pool and performed sex acts, scantily dressed Russians danced on platforms and men twirled lit torches to a booming techno beat. The divorced Sun Capital Partners honcho rented a sprawling beachfront mansion on Surf Side Road for $500,000 for the month of July. Leder’s weekly Friday and Saturday night parties have become the talk of the Hamptons—and he ended them in style last weekend with his wildest bash yet. Russell Simmons and ex-wife Kimora Lee attended a more subdued party thrown by Leder—who’s an event chair for Simmons’ Art For Life charity—on July 29 together. But the revelry hit a frenzied point the next day before midnight when a male guest described as a “chubby white meathead” and a “tanned” female guest stripped and hopped into the pool naked.
At Romney’s fundraiser at Leder’s Boca Raton home, not a single sex act was recorded.
|
I don’t really see how this connects to Romney.
@Roland: I suppose it connects about as much as Obama’s connection with what-was-his-name? that guy in Chicago the Republicans were all worked up about 4 years ago?
Yep. So getting down to the same level means both sides are on the same level, morally, ethically and mentally.
“But the connection goes back even further. Years ago, a visit to Mr. Romney’s investment firm inspired Mr. Leder to get into private equity in the first place. Mr. Romney was an early investor in some of the deals done by Mr. Leder’s investment company, Sun Capital, which today oversees about $8 billion in equity. ” http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/in-a-romney-believer-private-equitys-risks-and-rewards.html
Ok, but this article up there doesn’t talk about financial ties. All it says that Mr Leder likes excessive parties. Cool his house, his parties, his guests.
But he didn’t have it when Mitt Romeny had his fundraiser. Gasp, not a single sex act was recorded.
So how the overheated parties connect to Mr Romney’s fundraiser?
Or just trying to be like the other side to prove that neither side is actually better than the other?
@Roland – well I see your point – not connected in terms of wild sex parties. Just in bed (so to speak
) with an individual who leads a life that, well let’s say is at odds with Romney’s right wing “value voter” base. In other words, I think the point is one of hypocrisy more than anything else.
In politics you have to kiss a lot of philanderers.