Something Positive

This gives me a lot more confidence in Romney than what I had before.

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http://www.snopes.com/politics/romney/search.asp

This uplifting story is totally true.   So good to hear a positive story about a candidate since the media takes delight in scraping up every negative thing they can to broadcast about conservatives. 

 Yep, character does matter, and what we have been hearing in the
  media recently has been quite shocking. I thought you might like to
 see another side of one of the candidates. It appears there is more
 to the Bain Capital story than is being told, so I hope this story
  below is informative.
 
 Romney's character.... This facet of Romney's personality isn't so subtle.
 
 In July 1996, the 14-year-old daughter of Robert Gay, a partner at
 Bain Capital, had disappeared. She had attended a rave party in New
  York City and gotten high on ecstasy. Three days later, her
 distraught father had no idea where she was.
 
 Romney took immediate action. He closed down the entire firm and
 asked all 30 partners and employees to fly to New York to help find
  Gay's daughter. Romney set up a command center at the LaGuardia
 Marriott and hired a private detective firm to assist with the search.
 He established a toll-free number for tips, coordinating the effort
  with the NYPD, and went through his Rolodex and called everyone Bain
 did business with in New York, and asked them to help find his
 friend's missing daughter.
 
 Romney's accountants at Price Waterhouse Cooper put up posters on
  street poles, while cashiers at a pharmacy owned by Bain put fliers in
 the bag of every shopper. Romney and the other Bain employees scoured
 every part of New York and talked with everyone they could -
  prostitutes, drug addicts - anyone.
 
 That day, their hunt made the evening news, which featured photos
 of the girl and the Bain employees searching for her. As a result, a
 teenage boy phoned in, asked if there was a reward, and then hung up
  abruptly. The NYPD traced the call to a house in New Jersey, where
 they found the girl in the basement, shivering and experiencing
 withdrawal symptoms from a massive ecstasy dose. Doctors later said
  the girl might not have survived another day.
 
 Romney's former partner credits Mitt Romney with saving his
 daughter's life, saying, "It was the most amazing thing, and I'll
  never forget this to the day I die."
 
 So, here's my epiphany: Mitt Romney simply can't help himself. He
 sees a problem, and his mind immediately sets to work solving it,
 sometimes consciously, and sometimes not-so-consciously. He doesn't
  do it for self-aggrandizement, or for personal gain. He does it
 because that's just how he's wired.
 
 Many people are unaware of the fact that when Romney was asked by
 his old employer, Bill Bain, to come back to Bain & Company as CEO to
  rescue the firm from bankruptcy, Romney left Bain Capital to work at
 Bain & Company for an annual salary of one dollar.
 
 When Romney went to the rescue of the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics, he
  accepted no salary for three years, and would not use an expense
 account. He also accepted no salary as Governor of Massachusetts.
 
 Character counts!! (and yes...that's worth reading again!)
  
 It's nice to hear something positive about one of the candidates for a change.