Romney was Bain, Bain was Romney

By Michael J.W. Stickings

Even a high-ranking Bain insider says that Romney didn't retire in 1999:

A former partner at Bain Capital, who worked at the firm when Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was in charge, acknowledged on Sunday that Romney was "legally" the chief executive officer and sole owner of Bain Capital until 2002, not 1999 as Romney has previously stated, and said that Romney was engaged in a "complicated set of negotiations" over his exit pay for at least two years after he says he left the firm.

"Mitt's names were on the documents as the chief executive and sole owner of the company," Ed Conard, who served as a partner at Bain Capital from 1993 to 2007, said in an exclusive interview with Up w/ Chris Hayes. Asked again if Romney was chief executive officer of Bain Capital from 1999 to 2002, Conard said, "Legally, on documents, I suppose, yes."

Yeah, but who cares about what's legal, right?

Romney's wagon-circling defenders, if not Romney himself, will say that he was just negotiating how much money he'd get, not actively running the firm anymore. But the point isn't that he was running it on a day-to-day basis (which we haven't been suggesting), the point is that he was still responsible for it, and its actions, as owner and CEO.

And that he's been lying. Again and again and again.

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