2002 Winter Olympics Romney oversaw a $1.32 billion budget, 700 employees, 26,000 volunteers. Despite the initial fiscal shortfall, the Games ended up clearing a profit of $100 million, not counting the $224.5 million in security costs contributed by outside sources. Romney broke the record for most private $$$ raised by any individual for an Olympics games, summer or winter. Romney and his wife contributed $1 million to the Olympics, and he donated to charity the $1.4 million in salary and severance payments he received for his 3 years as president and CEO. Romney was widely praised for his successful efforts with the 2002 Winter Olympics and it solidified his reputation as a business recovery expert. Romney - Bachmann 2012 !

Bain Capital successfully invested in or acquired many well-known companies such as; Accuride, Brookstone, Domino's Pizza, Sealy Corporation, Sports Authority, and Artisan Entertainment, and Romney was asked to and he did successfully restore the economic viability of the 2002 Winter Olympics ! Those were all successful and there were some others that were not ! Bains first big success came with a 1986 investment to help start Staples Inc, after founder Thomas Stemberg convinced Romney of the market size for office supplies; Bain Capital eventually reaped a nearly sevenfold return on its investment, and Romney sat on the Staples board of directors for over a decade.

Don Meltzer wrote: 11-9-2009 "I would like for the Boston Globe and its readers to know that since 2003 Ampad has become a successful company providing office products to millions of consumers through some of the largest retailers in the US. Ampad employs close to 1,000 men and women in the US and abroad, and prides itself on treating all its employee, investor, customer and supplier stakeholders with respect and integrity." Don Meltzer, CEO, President Ampad, LLC

The company made a number of acquisitions, including writing products company SCM in July 1994, brand names from the American Trading and Production Corporation in August 1995, WR Acquisition and the Williamhouse-Regency Division of Delaware, Inc in Oct, 1995, Niagara Envelope Company, Inc in 1996, and Shade/Allied, Inc in Feb 1997. On Jan 8, 1999, unable to sustain profitability, the company announced it would be delisted from the NY Stock Exchange. After filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Ampad was acquired in 2003 by an affiliate of Crescent Capital Investments, later renamed Arcapita. Ampad's current president and CEO, Donald Meltzer, joined the company in Aug 2005. On June 8, 2010 Ampad was acquired by Esselte.

Ampad: Growth, acquisition, and reorganization, Bain Capital Known as the Ampad Holding Corp, the company was purchased in 1986 by the Mead Corp. In 1992, the newly formed holding company American Pad & Paper and Bain Capital purchased the subsidiary from Mead. Upon its formation, American Pad & Paper consolidated its 13 manufacturing and distribution facilities into six in 21 locations in the US. At the time, the company had more than 3,700,000 square feet of production and warehouse space in CA, CO, GA, IL, MA, MI, NJ, NY, OH, PA, TE, TX, WA, WI. The company continued to enjoy 53 percent compound annual growth in net sales, which increased from $8.8 million in 1992 to $200.5 million in 1996, when the company became publicly traded.

Romney: “As President, I’ll oppose amnesty, cut funding for sanctuary cities and secure our borders.” Good, he made it clear, lets keep telling him to be even more like Bachmann on this issue ! Keep demanding, that he make it clear and so he gets even tougher on this issue ! Hold him to his word ! Romney - Bachmann 2012 !

Keep demanding, that he make it clear and so he gets even tougher on this issue ! Hold him to his word !

Rick Perry said: "President Fox’s vision for an open border is a vision I embrace" "We must say to every Texas child learning in a Texas classroom, "we don’t care where you come from", but where you are going. We are going to do everything we can to help you get there. That vision must include, "the children of undocumented workers." The message is simple: "educacion es el futuro, y si se puede." Rick Perry's Texas Dream Act speech at the US Mexico border summit Aug 22, 2001 governor.state.tx.us/news/speech/10688 washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2011/jun/19/picket-does-gop-want-perrys-dream-act-too

Rick Perry said: "President Fox’s vision for an open border is a vision I embrace" "We must say to every Texas child learning in a Texas classroom, "we don’t care where you come from", but where you are going. We are going to do everything we can to help you get there. That vision must include, "the children of undocumented workers." The message is simple: "educacion es el futuro, y si se puede." Rick Perry's Texas Dream Act speech at the US Mexico border summit Aug 22, 2001 governor.state.tx.us/news/speech/10688 washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2011/jun/19/picket-does-gop-want-perrys-dream-act-too

Perry's-Texas-jobs-went-mostly-81%-to-illegal-aliens, newly-arrived-immigrants ! Although Texas was one of the only states with a significant gain in employment, the native-born did very poorly over this time period. Govt data shows there were about 280,000 more people working in Texas in the 2cnd qtr of 2011 than in the same qtr of 2007. In the 2cnd qtr of 2011 there were 225,000 immigrants, legal-illegal, working in the state who indicated that they arrived in our country between the 2cnd qtr of 2007 - 2cnd qtr of 2011. Thus the employment gains of newly arrived immigrants, 225,000, equaled 81% of total employment growth, 280,000. Over the same time period the employment situation for native-born workers deteriorated signicantly !