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by Aja Brooks on Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 8:19am ·
Prayers: Lord, we thank You for Your presence and peace, that passes all understanding: thank You for Your Word that instructs us in the way of righteousness. Let us praise You! Lord let us not lean on our own understanding but have faith in the places that we are weak that You are strong! Your grace and mercy did not depend on us, but forgiveness was delivered by Your perfection! May we thank You always! However Lord, we are in a time where we can not be grateful for Obama for he never should've been President: I can't see any reason that he deserves to be or remain in Office, and I ask You what we need to do. I have urged him repeatedly to leave because his oath breaking brings trouble on his own house and our country! While it is obvious to me, open his blind spirit to see we're drawing straws and shouldn't have to pick between Planned Parenthood or aiding Syria, or having the poor and sick cared for vs. forcing taxation by coercion for PLAN B and abortions. I thank You-Amen. GATeaPartyChief
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What a great day to contemplate Rick Santorum as President, I am so sick of hearing anything about Obama, I want to upchuck on his shoes...
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I met Rick a few times when he first ran for Congress and liked him as our Representative and volunteered for several of his campaigns. He was OK as a Senator and I never viewed him as presidential material. But the more the left attackshim, the more hate and vitriol they direct at him, the more I want to see him in the Oval Office. The parents of these left-wing wackos should be ashamed of their children for what they do and say. It really can be only one thing: hatred, out and out hatred. I think they are angry, stupid, spoiled rich kids who follow Maddow, Jon Stewart(sic), Maher and all the others who do nothing but hate on conservatives. My God, they still blame Bush for every woe and still post lies and derogatory cartoons about him. Well, you know all these things, I just needed to vent....
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Pertly because so many of these liberals have no "tolerance". Ahhh, they preach tolerance and acceptance, but those are just one-way streets. If it's not "their" kind of "tolerance", well, it doesn't count. They really are phonies, hypo...See More
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Aja Brooks Yeah it's like "OH we're supposed to tell you how to live, and if you don't live like us by agreeing with us 100%, there's no love for you..." I say if you can't respect someone else's decision, that they have free will like everyone else, then you really don't love them unconditionally as God does. Also, no love lost!
Lent 2012: Lenten Fast Begins On Ash Wednesday With Prayers, Poems, Reflections Prepares For Easter 
First Posted: 02/16/2012 6:28 am Updated: 02/22/2012 11:33 am
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The 40 days of Lent that lead to Easter are the most sacred and spiritually powerful in the Christian calendar. From the Ash Wednesday reminder to 'remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return,' to the the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday, to the joyful Easter song of 'Christ the Lord Is Risen Today' -- Lent is a time when Christians are invited to examine our faith, and deepen the commitment to live the Christian life.
Starting on February 22, Ash Wednesday, HuffPost Religion offers you the opportunity to walk together with an on-line community of pilgrims through this season of grown and discovery. Each day HuffPost will be updating this liveblog with scripture lessons, prayers, music, poetry, hymns, ideas for charitable service and supportive comments and suggestions from fellow HuffPost Lent community members to help make your fast meaningful and powerful.
We will also be offering daily Lenten reflections by some of the most respected Christian voices who will share with you deep wisdom for your walk with Christ. We will constantly be updating this liveblog with Lenten spiritual resources for your fast. All Christian traditions are encouraged to participate whether or not Lent is observed in your church.
We lament the loss of life over this issue. Tea Party Chief @2012_TeaParty. Afghanistan: Native Americans have the same practice, that the ashes be released into the river; therefore, we meant no desecration. 15h Tea Party Chief Tea Party Chief @2012_TeaParty. Afghanistan: our sanctification is by fire, but we understand that yours is proper burial, not to be tread on by humans http://www.inter-islam.org/Quran/disposingscripture.htm. 15h Tea Party Chief Tea Party Chief @2012_TeaParty. Afghanistan: we understand that is not so in your culture, but we did not mean any open disrespect of your religion or of God by doing so. 15h Tea Party Chief Tea Party Chief @2012_TeaParty. Afghanistan: our military did not consider this a practice of disrespect, as that is the only way to properly show respect at appointed time. 15h Tea Party Chief Tea Party Chief @2012_TeaParty. Afghanistan: Native American fire ceremony is for purification on the New Moon, that is the sacred time and not to use desecration on Korans.
7 Killed in Afghan Protests over Quran Burning
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The Afghan Interior Ministry says seven people have been killed in clashes between Afghan security forces and protesters demonstrating against the burning of Muslim holy books at a NATO military base.
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7 Killed in Afghan Protests over Quran Burning
Updated: Wednesday, 22 Feb 2012, 9:54 AM ESTPublished : Wednesday, 22 Feb 2012, 9:39 AM EST
RAHIM FAIEZ,Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The Afghan Interior Ministry says seven people have been killed in clashes between Afghan security forces and protesters demonstrating against the burning of Muslim holy books at a NATO military base.
The ministry says in a statement the deaths occurred Wednesday in the Afghan capital of Kabul, in the eastern city of Jalalabad, and in the provinces of Logar and Parwan.
It said four of the dead were killed during a protest in Parwan.
The ministry said security guards at a U.S. base outside Kabul killed one man, while one man each was killed during protests in Jalalabad and Logar.
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@TheKingDude I think you should now defend why the Obama zombies have disappeared as the deficit continues to grow, ungodly governance!
@DailyCaller Ron Paul will have to stage a compelling argument why a Libertarian should have the GOP nomination instead.
@DailyCaller I think Rick Santorum has proven electability to the Tea Party, the coveted percentage solidifying GOP/Independent voters.
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GINGRICH HELPED LOBBYIST PROTECT FREDDIE
Hiring part of broader bid to target GOP critics, shore up Dem support
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich helped broker a “special arrangement” between Congress and Freddie Mac in which the semi-private mortgage giant continued to enjoy subsidies as long as it made housing more “affordable” for low-income and minority borrowers, according to Freddie Mac insiders who spoke to WND on condition of anonymity.
In fact, Gingrich championed the “affordable-housing” policies he now criticizes for helping inflate the housing bubble that burst painfully in 2008. The one-time Freddie consultant joined Democrats in shielding the agency from reforms that would have reined in its risky mortgage underwriting.
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“As long as we focused on affordable housing,” one Freddie insider said, “our position was secure.”
The government benefits, which included a multibillion-dollar line of credit from the Treasury and exemption from both state and federal taxes, gave Freddie an edge over market competitors.
Gingrich denies lobbying for Freddie and claims he only consulted for the quasi-governmental agency as a “historian.”
While records show the longtime GOP lawmaker never registered as a lobbyist, former Freddie officials say he helped the agency’s chief lobbyist – Craig C. Thomas – defeat two key GOP-sponsored pieces of legislation designed to toughen oversight of Freddie and its twin, Fannie Mae, less than three years before the mortgage crisis.
One bill, the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act, authorized the creation of a new watchdog agency to approve mortgage products underwritten by Freddie and Fannie. The other, the Federal Housing Finance Reform Act, limited the mortgage agencies’ portfolios and hiked their capital reserve requirements.
Coached by Gingrich, who was under a $600,000 retainer at the time, Thomas lobbied hard against the bills, neither of which made it to the floor of the Senate for final vote. Top GOP targets included Rep. Spencer Bachus of the House Financial Services Committee, who records show pocketed at least $55,000 in campaign donations from Freddie and Fannie; and Sen. Richard Shelby of the Senate Banking Committee, who also received at least $55,000.
Also opposing the measures were key Democrat leaders – including Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Chris Dodd – who argued tighter regulation of Freddie and Fannie would cut into their public mission to finance low-income and affordable housing.
As part of his lucrative contract, Gingrich also publicly defended what he saw as the benefits of the Freddie business model in several articles and talks. Freddie sources say he regularly circulated among members of Congress during this period.
Freddie Mac, now in government conservatorship, denied requests to furnish for examination any “deliverable” materials, including drafts of reports written by the Gingrich Group, as cited under the contract drawn up in the mid-2000s.
Internal Freddie records show Gingrich wasn’t the only GOP power broker hired back then to target Republican reformers. Others included Sen. Alfonse D’Amato and Reps. Susan Molinari and Vin Weber, as well as Susan Hirschmann, former chief of staff to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. GOP political consultant Frank Luntz was also retained by Freddie as part of its overall $12 million campaign at the time to beat back GOP efforts to privatize Freddie and Fannie and take away their government advantages.
Gingrich’s past activities, both in public and behind the scenes, contrast starkly with remarks the GOP presidential contender has made about Freddie and Fannie on the campaign trail.
Last October, during a presidential debate sponsored by Bloomberg News and the Washington Post, Gingrich blamed the government-sponsored lenders for a major role in the subprime lending crisis and argued they should be “broken up.” He also fingered Democrat champions of affordable housing who took cash contributions from Freddie and Fannie; and who, in turn, helped protect them from regulatory oversight and contributed to a loose lending “environment.”
“If you want to put people in jail, you ought to start with Barney Frank and Chris Dodd who created the environment,” Gingrich said. “Let’s look at the politicians who profited from the environment, and the politicians who put this country in trouble.”
In the 1990s, however, Gingrich supported the Clinton administration’s aggressive campaign to use Freddie and Fannie to boost in his own words, “affordable housing,” and home ownership among minorities.
In 1994, for example, Gingrich attended a Fannie event in Atlanta celebrating its commitment to lending to poor minority communities there.
“Fannie Mae is an excellent example of a former government institution fulfilling its mandate while functioning in the market economy,” he said. “Fannie Mae has had a regional presence in Atlanta for over 40 years, and the announcement of a partnership office demonstrates its continued commitments to affordable housing in the Atlanta metropolitan area.”
Five years later, Gingrich stepped down from Congress and immediately joined Freddie as a consultant on “strategic planning and public policy,” securing a $25,000-a-month contract. At the same time, Gingrich’s chief of staff, Arne Christenson, became a paid lobbyist for Fannie.
Freddie’s chief lobbyist at the time, Mitchell Delk, said in a recent interview that the 1999 contract required Gingrich to provide, among other things, advice on issues such as “expanding home ownership among Hispanics” and other minorities.
All told, Gingrich earned as much as $1.8 million during his two contract periods with Freddie Mac.
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To all people of various faiths:
May I call to your remembrance that our Nation has lost its way under Obama:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/thesynthesis/doc/167467459985257/
I am in full agreement with Rick Santorum that Obama has “some phony theology” not based on the Bible. We have all seen his disregard of our Constitution, how there is no amendment for him to remain in Office as a non-citizen, and how he exploits his political ties and money relationships for an agenda contrary to our values and beliefs, attacking the very foundation of our country!! This was poignantly seen when Obama refused to honor his Oath to the Catholic Church and those he served regarding H.R. 4872 and the language of other health care bills, in refusing to relinquish the legislation that he has no power to enforce anyway, when he staged an attempt to dominate and dictate to the Catholic Church.... it backfired on him:
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NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF THE CATHOLIC VOTE: people of various faiths have come out against Obama for crossing the line, forcing religious entities to violate conscience to fund abortifaceants and other birth control methods, when this money could be better served to support general wellness of the poor, not elective coverage costs. While most believed Obama to be genuine and that the DNC had chosen a legitimate, eligible alternative to Bush Jr. who would end war, they soon discovered that their vote was wasted and their lack of involvement on waiting for Obama to pan out ruined our Nation, drawing us farther away from God's agenda! Obama breaking his Oath, along with the rule of law not being upheld, especially when it comes to guaranteed constitutional freedoms and religious liberties has built the wall of prayer to prepare for this siege, and they're selecting Rick Santorum to carry the banner of their values and beliefs to new Presidential policies:
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Catholic League Poised To Go To War With Obama Over Mandatory Birth Control Payments
Catholic leaders upped the ante Monday, threatening to challenge the Obama administration over a provision of the new health care law that would require all employers, including religious institutions...
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In praying for our next President to be one of God’s choosing, not someone the people appointed like a king or a Kenyan Dictator, something gnawed at my soul when it came to how small of a circle the corruption had become with Newt-Romney-Obama all feeding from the same trough for political cash perpetuating corruption, from a company known as Bain, from various outlets.
The Tea Party has participated in several successful boycotts, against: Chinese goods http://www.facebook.com/teapartychief/timeline/story?ut=32&wstart=1293868800&wend=1296547199&hash=10150484890023670 , http://www.facebook.com/groups/thesynthesis/doc/167910759940927/, opium http://www.facebook.com/groups/thesynthesis/doc/156536701078333/ http://news.yahoo.com/lawmakers-freeze-700-million-pakistan-over-ieds-011103800.html
We are now going to boycott Bain, and all things Bain:
2/19/2012 THROUGH 11/6/2012
May I call to your remembrance that our Nation has lost its way under Obama:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/thesynthesis/doc/167467459985257/
I am in full agreement with Rick Santorum that Obama has “some phony theology” not based on the Bible. We have all seen his disregard of our Constitution, how there is no amendment for him to remain in Office as a non-citizen, and how he exploits his political ties and money relationships for an agenda contrary to our values and beliefs, attacking the very foundation of our country!! This was poignantly seen when Obama refused to honor his Oath to the Catholic Church and those he served regarding H.R. 4872 and the language of other health care bills, in refusing to relinquish the legislation that he has no power to enforce anyway, when he staged an attempt to dominate and dictate to the Catholic Church.... it backfired on him:
AJA BROOKS - Feb 7, 2012 -
+1'd on newyork.cbslocal.com
- Public
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF THE CATHOLIC VOTE: people of various faiths have come out against Obama for crossing the line, forcing religious entities to violate conscience to fund abortifaceants and other birth control methods, when this money could be better served to support general wellness of the poor, not elective coverage costs. While most believed Obama to be genuine and that the DNC had chosen a legitimate, eligible alternative to Bush Jr. who would end war, they soon discovered that their vote was wasted and their lack of involvement on waiting for Obama to pan out ruined our Nation, drawing us farther away from God's agenda! Obama breaking his Oath, along with the rule of law not being upheld, especially when it comes to guaranteed constitutional freedoms and religious liberties has built the wall of prayer to prepare for this siege, and they're selecting Rick Santorum to carry the banner of their values and beliefs to new Presidential policies:
Collapse this post
Catholic League Poised To Go To War With Obama Over Mandatory Birth Control Payments
Catholic leaders upped the ante Monday, threatening to challenge the Obama administration over a provision of the new health care law that would require all employers, including religious institutions...
- Comment - Hang out - Share
In praying for our next President to be one of God’s choosing, not someone the people appointed like a king or a Kenyan Dictator, something gnawed at my soul when it came to how small of a circle the corruption had become with Newt-Romney-Obama all feeding from the same trough for political cash perpetuating corruption, from a company known as Bain, from various outlets.
The Tea Party has participated in several successful boycotts, against: Chinese goods http://www.facebook.com/teapartychief/timeline/story?ut=32&wstart=1293868800&wend=1296547199&hash=10150484890023670 , http://www.facebook.com/groups/thesynthesis/doc/167910759940927/, opium http://www.facebook.com/groups/thesynthesis/doc/156536701078333/ http://news.yahoo.com/lawmakers-freeze-700-million-pakistan-over-ieds-011103800.html
We are now going to boycott Bain, and all things Bain:
2/19/2012 THROUGH 11/6/2012
FOR LENT, LET US GIVE UP ALL THINGS BAIN: LET US GIVE UP CLEAR CHANNEL MEDIA, UNGODLY MUSIC, AND PRODUCTS SUCKING OUR MONEY AWAY TO THE RICH
@2012_TeaParty on Twitter · via TwitterCURRENT COMPANIES OF PRODUCTS WE ARE BOYCOTTING:
1) SPORTS AUTHORITY
2) GUITAR CENTER
3) HOSPITAL CORPORATION OF AMERICA
4) GYMBOREE
5) CLEAR CHANNEL COMMUNICATIONS (Project961, radio hosts like Erick Erickson)
6) HOUGHTON MIFFLIN (kids’ textbooks)
7) STAPLES
8) D&M HOLDINGS
9) DOMINO’S PIZZA
10) THE WEATHER CHANNEL
11) BURGER KING
12) SEALY CORPORATION
13) BROOKSTONE
14) BURLINGTON COAT FACTORY
15) DUNKIN DONUTS
1) UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THESE EMAIL DISTRIBUTION LISTS
2) DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM THEM
3) PROTEST OUTSIDE THEIR STORES AS KILLING SMALL BUSINESSES
4) CHANGE YOUR INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO
BUY NO MORE OF THESE PRODUCTS FROM NOW UNTIL THE ELECTION, TO TAKE MONEY AWAY FROM THE CRONY CAPITALISM CORPORATOCRACY MACHINE!!
THIS LIST WILL BE UPDATE WITH ACCEPTABLE PRODUCTS TO BUY BASED ON INVESTMENTS THAT DO NOT DAMAGE THE MORAL AND FISCAL INTEGRITY OF OUR COUNTRY !!!
WORLD WIDE OFFICES:
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Bain Capital is the bane of small businesses -- these people have put to death the entrepreneurial spirit in favor of huge, unaccountable, unruly corporations that are funding this political machine FOR THEIR PROFIT --- this has nothing to do with our freedom, this is about them and them trying to control every sector of business and the government through business and money http://www.bain.com/index.aspx
Did Newt have to buy Press to appear on 2 5 11 simultaneously?
BOOOH! WE DON'T WANT THE 3-RING CORRUPTION OF NEWT-ROMNEY-OBAMA CONTROLLING OUR ELECTIONS THROUGH CLEAR CHANNEL MEDIA! ONWARD SANTORUM! Clear Channel is a Bain Company!! BOYCOTT BAIN AND ALL THINGS BAIN -- JOIN US IN BOYCOTTING PROJECT961 AND ALL PRODUCTS BAIN CURRENTLY SERVICES !!!! REFUSE TO BUY OR LISTEN TO CORPORATELY CONTROLLED MEDIA AND BUY THEIR PRODUCTS TO YOUR DETRIMENT !!
— with Alonzo M. Borja and 53 others at GA Tea Party.
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Brian Carpenter Bunch of Commies!!
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Brian Carpenter Bunch of Commies!!
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Aja Brooks bunch of oppressors: by political and economic means
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Aja Brooks History
[edit]1970s
Bain & Company was established in 1973 by a group of seven former partners from the Boston Consulting Group headed by Bill Bain. The company was headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts on Militia Drive.
Under Bain’s direction, the firm implemented a number of unconventional practices in its early years. Notably, Bain & Co. would only work with one client per industry to avoid potential conflicts of interest.[5] Partners did not carry business cards and clients were referred to by code names, further demonstrating its reputation for enforcing client confidentiality. The company preferred to win work by boardroom referrals rather than marketing itself, sometimes landing clients by offering several weeks of work at no cost until proving the results of its services. Bain consultants preferred to work on increasing a company's market value rather than simply handing clients a list of recommendations.[6] To win business, Bain demonstrated the increase in stock price of Bain's clients relative to the Dow Jones Industrial Average.[7]
The firm's founding was followed by a period of growth in the late 1970s and early 1980s as the firm opened offices in London, Munich, San Francisco, and Tokyo.
Another innovative consulting approach that Bain & Co. pioneered was aligning its incentives with its clients' performance by occasionally accepting equity in lieu of fixed fees. An estimated 10% of Bain's revenue is derived from this equity participation or "success fees". This model has proved successful for both Bain and its clients. For example, the firm took an ownership stake in fruit processor Del Monte Foods while working to revamp the company’s strategy.[8] "Coming into a leveraged buyout situation is never easy," says Del Monte CEO Richard Wolford. "Knowing Bain and their desire to deliver results, they probably would have provided ongoing support regardless. But the fact they own a stake doesn't hurt."
[edit]1980s
After a successful start, Bain & Co. found itself facing a growing list of challenges in the late 1980s. In the midst of sluggish business conditions and overstaffing, Bain also faced the dilemma of having to turn away business due to its one-client-per-industry restriction. Competition increased as other firms copied Bain’s implementation-focused strategy.
However daunting these external challenges, it was internal infighting among the senior partnership that threatened to tear the firm apart. In response, Bain & Co. was formally incorporated in 1985 and, over the course of two years, the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) was established. Bain's senior partners began borrowing against their equity for cash, eventually leaving the firm with a heavy debt load.[5]
As business slowed, this debt load began to squeeze the firm. Bain ultimately found itself in non-compliance with Bank of New England loan covenants. The resulting debt write-off at the Bank of New England eventually resulted in that bank's failure in 1991.[9]
[edit]1990s
Facing financial duress, Bain Capital partner Mitt Romney was asked to rejoin and lead Bain & Co. as interim CEO. Bringing along two lieutenants from Bain Capital, Romney began a traveling campaign to rally employees at all Bain offices globally. Romney also negotiated a complex settlement between the Bain partnership and the firm's lenders, including a $10 million reduction in the $38 million Bain owed the Bank of New England,[10] which by that time had been seized by the FDIC and placed in Chapter 7 liquidation.
The Boston Globe pointed out that:
"Over several weeks, Romney managed negotiations with the banks and among the partners... The moment came when negotiations produced a package in which Bill Bain and the founding partners would give up control of the firm, turning back $30 million they had taken from the ESOP and $100 million in notes they held against the firm."
Romney’s plan involved "a complicated restructuring of the firm's stock-ownership plan, real-estate holdings, bank loans, and money still owed to partners".[11] To avoid the financial crisis that a buyout would have triggered, the group of founding partners agreed to return about $100M cash and forgive outstanding debt.[6]
Although in the role for just one year before returning to Bain Capital, Romney's work had three profound impacts on the firm. First, ownership was officially shifted from the owners to the firm's 70 general partners. Second, transparency in the firm's finances increased dramatically (e.g. partners were able to know each other's salaries[11]). Third, Bill Bain relinquished ownership in the firm that carried his name.
Aja Brooks Orit Gadiesh at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, 2007.
Within a year, Bain bounced back to profitability without major partner defections,[11] and the groundwork was laid for a period of steady growth.
In 1993, the head position was split into two roles – an executive head (Worldwide Managing Director) and a non-executive head (Chairman of the Board). Orit Gadiesh, named Bain’s first Chairman in 1993, was fundamental in maintaining Bain’s culture. After spending two years in military intelligence for the Israeli army and earning a degree in psychology from Hebrew University, Gadiesh enrolled in the Harvard Business School and graduated as a Baker Scholar. As a junior partner during the turnaround, she had been instrumental in keeping senior partners from leaving the firm; as chairman, she became the first female to lead one of the major consulting firms. Gadiesh was known throughout the firm for her passionate leadership and "True North" philosophy, which the firm still embraces. For the past several years, she has landed among Forbes list of the 100 Most Powerful Women in Business and is on the board of several organizations, including the World Economic Forum.[6]
Under Gadiesh and MD Tom Tierney, Bain simultaneously loosened its restrictions around the one-client-per-industry policy, by assuring clients that the firm's strict internal professional standards prohibited the circulation of client data internally, and expanded its presence worldwide throughout the 1990s. The firm grew by 25 percent per year, expanded its office count from 12 to 26, and increased partnership from about 70 to nearly 200.[6]
[edit]2000s
The new millennium began with Bain & Co. guiding its clients through managing the changes involved in the "New Economy". The economic slowdown following the dotcom boom was painful on all the major consulting players; however, Bain’s previous experiences with contraction left the firm zealous in avoiding layoffs. The firm weathered the economic downturn by investing in its leadership ranks with internal promotions and key external hires. Subsequently, the economic recovery has been followed by another period of sustained growth. In 2007, the firm expanded its global footprint to 37 offices, with office openings in Kiev, Moscow, Helsinki, and Frankfurt. The worldwide consulting headcount increased to approximately 2,700. Bain now has more offices in Europe than in any other region; the upshot of which being more revenue comes from its Continental operations than either the North American or Asian markets.
The new millennium also brought changes to Bain's traditional generalist approach to solving client issues. Due to increasing specialization in the consulting industry, the firm developed niche "Practice Areas" in order to better serve the varying needs of its increasingly diverse multinational and local client base. Through targeted industry hires, Bain added industry experts to each of these "Practice Areas", significantly raising its profile in fields such as financial services, healthcare, information technology and media/entertainment.
[edit]Notable controversies
[edit]Guinness affair
The Guinness share-trading fraud is a corporate takeover scandal of the 1980s. In April 1986, the British government launched an investigation into Guinness' purchase of Distillers Company for equity valued at $3.8 billion. The government suspected that Guinness may have illegally inflated its stock price to sway Distillers' shareholders away from a competing offer from the Argyll Group, a Scottish food retailer.
Several executives were implicated in the investigation: the Guinness CEO Ernest Saunders, several top executives at Morgan Grenfell (Guinness's investment bank), and Guinness' director of financial strategy & development and then Bain VP Olivier Roux (who had temporarily been assigned to Guinness by Bain). Roux was still on Bain's payroll at the time, prompting public criticism that Bain was guilty of a conflict of interest and leaving Bain vulnerable to lawsuits. Roux later resigned his posts at both Guinness and Bain.[12]
[edit]Sir Jack Lyons and "the Guinness Four"
Sir Jack Lyons, whom Bain hired to help build its consulting practice in Britain, admitted to receiving more than $3 million in fees from Guinness for "advisory services". His company, J. Lyons Chamberlayne, was also under investigation for accepting another $480,000 from Guinness linked to improper share buying. Bain fired Lyons in January 1987; he was later charged (along with Ernest Saunders, Gerald Ronson, and Anthony Parnes). The four men became known as "the Guinness Four." All men were convicted but Lyons was not imprisoned due to ill health. He lost his knighthood and was fined £3,000,000 plus £1,000,000 prosecution costs.[13]
Due to Roux's resignation and Lyon's swift termination, Bain & Co. was never accused of any wrongdoing in the Guinness affair.
[edit]Value Partners case
[edit]Background
In 1998, Value Partners, a smaller management consulting firm based in Milan, filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court against Bain & Co., alleging Bain's theft of Value Partners' office in São Paulo, Brazil, including its clients, employees, and confidential and proprietary information.[14]
Value Partners, which was established in 1993, had expanded its operations to five offices worldwide with 80 professionals. In 1994, Value Partners opened an office in São Paulo, Brazil. By 1997, Value Partners' Brazilian office was thriving and had grown to 25 professionals.[14]
Value Partners claimed that Bain unlawfully caused members of Value Partners São Paulo office to enter into a conspiracy with Bain to take-over Value Partners' Brazilian office. Bain, which at the time had no business presence in Brazil, allegedly determined that it thereby could expand into the region, without incurring the associated start-up costs and risks of a new branch office.[14]
According to the complaint, unbeknownst to fellow members of Value Partners at the time, the co-conspirators remained with Value Partners even after agreeing to join Bain, so as to secretly work from within Value Partners to better effectuate the wholesale misappropriation of Value Partners' São Paulo office.[14]
[edit]Post-trial outcome
In 2002 following a four-week trial, the jury found Bain liable for unfair competition and tortious interference under Brazilian law and awarded Value Partners $10 million in compensatory damages (the full award requested by Value Partners at trial). Value Partners was also awarded approximately $2.5 million in prejudgment interest.[15]
Bain's post-trial motions were denied, and Bain appealed to the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. Value Partners filed a cross-appeal, contesting the District Court's denial of its companion claim for treble damages for unfair competition under Massachusetts law.[15]
[edit]Relationship with Bain Capital
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Bain Capital was founded in 1984 by several former Bain & Co. partners that include Mitt Romney (later to become the 70th Governor of Massachusetts), T. Coleman Andrews III, and Eric Kriss.[7] On account of these shared roots, Bain & Co. still maintains a strong institutional relationship with Bain Capital. Many current Bain Capital MD's and professional staffers began their business careers at Bain & Co.[17]
[edit]Competitors
Bain & Company is one of the market leaders in management consulting services to the Fortune 500 set, along with McKinsey & Company, The Boston Consulting Group, Booz & Company, A.T. Kearney, and Monitor Group. This top tier of consulting firms recruits young professionals from the world's most elite undergraduate and business schools. Also increasingly, larger technology and implementation-focused firms such as Deloitte, Accenture, IBM, and Ernst & Young have been building out strategy groups to try to steal some share from the pure strategy consultancies.
Although these three firms compete directly across all major sectors and geographies, each firm possesses its own unique profile that defines its sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace. Having pioneered private equity (PE) consulting, Bain is the strongest player in the PE/LBO (Leveraged BuyOut) space, servicing most of the major private investment firms globally; Bain also displays competitive strength in the closely related mergers & acquisitions (M&A), organizational/turnaround and financial services consulting spaces. Geographically, Bain displays a strong market share in the Americas and Europe but is weak in Asia and other emerging markets.
McKinsey & Co., on account of its experience, deep board/C-level relationships and scale, is currently the strongest player in the MBB tier with particular strongholds in general strategy, financial services, operations and IT (through its BTO subsidiary). McKinsey holds the highest market share among the four firms globally with geographic strength across the Americas, Europe and Asia. BCG displays competitive strength in general strategy and holds the second-highest market share globally after McKinsey.
[edit]Recruitment and professional advancement[edit]Recruitment
In a Financial Times interview, Bain partner Bill Neuenfeldt identified the desired qualities in potential hires as “intelligence, integrity, passion and the ambition to make a difference.”[18]
In addition to these basic job requirements, an entry-level Associate Consultant (AC) is typically a graduate from an elite undergraduate institution with a demonstrable enthusiasm for problem-solving and a basic analytical skill-set. No specific major is required for the AC role, though an academic background related to data-based analysis (e.g., economics, business, sciences or engineering) can be a value-add on the job.
[edit]Professional advancement
The Associate Consultant (AC) role typically lasts for 24 months, after which most ACs are promoted to the Senior Associate Consultant (SAC) role. An SAC may have the opportunity to spend six months in a Bain office of his/her choice, leave Bain for six months to work for another company or non-profit organization, or take a two month sabbatical for purely personal pursuits. After 36 months at Bain, most SAC's either leave Bain to attend graduate school (top-performing SAC's may receive funding for graduate business studies) or join another company. Some SAC's choose to stay on for a fourth year; outstanding SAC's may be promoted directly to Consultant, the post-MBA position.
Those individuals that choose to join Bain after completing their MBA or other professional/graduate training enter in the Consultant role, where they are tasked with planning and managing the analytical process that produces key insights for Bain's clients. Increasing responsibility over planning and managing this analytical process in the Consultant role leads to a Case Team Leader (CTL) role. Most CTL's leave Bain to pursue junior management positions in industry or finance; some CTL's continue on to a Manager role at Bain. Managers are tasked with overseeing several inter-related analytical processes and are increasingly exposed to clients. Several years in the Manager role with demonstrated potential to build and manage client relationships may lead to a client-facing Principal role followed by election to Partner.
As Bain & Co. is an incorporated partnership, each Partner holds an equity stake in the firm and may rise to Director (a senior partnership role) or Managing Director (an executive head of a country or region) depending upon their professional strengths and capacity to build/maintain high-level relationships.
[edit]Notable current and former employees
[edit]Industry and finance
Bill Bain — Founder of Bain & Company
Eric Kriss — Co-founder of Bain Capital
Stephen Pagliuca — MD of Bain Capital; co-owner of the Boston Celtics
Joshua Bekenstein — MD of Bain Capital, board member of the Yale School of Management
Kenneth Chenault — CEO of American Express
Gary Crittenden — CFO of Citigroup, Monsanto and Sears; board member of Staples and TJX Companies
Pete Dawkins — Former CEO of Primerica Financial Services, U.S. Army Brigadier General and Republican candidate for U.S. Senate
Kevin Rollins — Former CEO of Dell Computer
William F. Achtmeyer — CEO of The Parthenon Group, Chairman of the Board of Overseers of Tuck School at Dartmouth
Greg Brenneman — Former CEO of PWC Consulting, Quiznos and Burger King; board member of The Home Depot and Automatic Data Processing
John Donahoe — CEO of eBay, Trustee of Dartmouth College
Meg Whitman — CEO of Hewlett Packard; former CEO of eBay; 2010 candidate for California Governor
Vivek Paul — Partner at Texas Pacific Group, former CEO of Wipro
Mark Pincus — Founder and CEO of Zynga
Anne Glover — Co-founder of Amadeus Capital Partners
Steve Jurvetson — General Partner of Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Jane Mendillo — President and CEO, Harvard Management Company
Jonathan Kraft — President of the New England Patriots
Andy Wasynczuk — Former COO and SVP of New England Patriots, Lecturer at the Harvard Business School
[edit]Politics and public service
Robin Buchanan — Former Dean and President of London Business School
The Lord Feldman of Elstree — Chairman of the British Conservative Party
Mitt Romney — Former Governor of Massachusetts, co-founder of Bain Capital, 2008 and 2012 Republican U.S. Presidential candidate
Jeffrey Zients — Chief Performance Officer of the United States (2009-), former Acting Director of Office of Management and Budget (2010)
[edit]Other notable people
Roger H. Brown — President of the Berklee College of Music
Michael Kolowich — Founder of ZDNet and AT&T New Media; documentary filmmaker
Michael Murphy — Former Olympic diver
Fred Reichheld — Business author
Suzy Welch — Former Editor of the Harvard Business Review
Pat Manning — Former Olympic rower
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Bain & Company Profile & Stats
Bain & Company is one of the biggest and most respected names in consulting. Yet from the beginning, Bainies (as they’re known in the industry) aimed to do things a little differently from their competitors. The firm bases its fees on the financial results it achieves for its clients, acquiring contracts through word-of-mouth referrals, and following the belief that consultants should deliver ‘results, not reports’. Known for its work on everything from M&A to private equity investments, Boston headquartered Bain & Company employs over 5,000 in 42 offices, across 27 different countries.
The London office was established in 1979, and services a large range of corporate clients – more than 40% of the FTSE 100, in fact. In addition to the London branch, the firm has spread its wings across the Continent, setting up shop in Amsterdam, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Paris, Rome, Stockholm and Zurich. Bain now has more offices in Europe than in any other region; the upshot of which being more revenue comes from its Continental operations than either the North American or Asian markets.
That said, Bain is not satisfied with leaving the rest of the globe untapped. Like its consulting peers, Bain has been targeting booming areas, such as India and the Middle East, for business. But unlike its competitors, the firm is specifically targeting strategy work, rather than limiting its Indian offerings to outsourcing.
When Bill Bain left the Boston Consulting Group in 1973, he took with him a number of consultants and clients to found Bain & Company. Starting out as a three person operation in his basement, the company grew quickly, expanding into the UK market only six years later. By 1983, the firm had begun investing in its own clients and soon after began a policy of accepting equity as part of its compensation with its PE clients. In 1984, Bain Capital was launched as a spin off, and currently holds over $50 billion in assets, having invested in more than 250 companies. It is a completely separate company to Bain & Co and shares neither governance nor ownership.
In 1994, Bain became the first consulting company to establish a private equity practice. It is currently the market leader, having worked on more than half of all US and European private equity transactions worth over $1 billion in the last 10 years. This hugely successful practice provides clients – mostly leveraged buyout firms and hedge funds – with fund strategy, sector screening and deal generation, due diligence, portfolio company performance improvement and exit planning. Bain has, in part, these over performing clients to thank for its strong reputation: its clients have historically outperformed the stock market 4 to 1... at least until now! So not to rest on its laurels, Bain also implemented a clever brand reinvention strategy to help it gain greater name recognition.
Around 50% of Bain’s clients are featured among the Global 2000; the remaining are mostly private equity, small and mid-sized companies. The firm’s diverse clients hail from numerous industries, spanning aerospace and defence, automotive, consumer products, energy and utilities, financial services, health care, industrial products, media, non-profit, retail, technology, telecommunications and transportation, and include a mix of multinational firms and global companies.
Not to be out done in the altruistic stakes, Bain founded the affiliate the Bridgespan Group, in 2000, to customise management strategy approaches for non-profit clients, such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Diabetes UK, Save the Children and the UCLA Johnson Cancer Centre Foundation. Around 15% of Bain’s staff rotate into Bridgespan for 6 month periods to gain experience in the sector.
In London, community support is encouraged, with an integrated community involvement programme, Bain Cares, which provides strategic and operational advice to Business Action on homelessness. Additionally, staffers take part in educational efforts in local schools by tutoring and mentoring students, planting trees, painting homeless shelters etc. And twice a year, the firm holds a ‘community impact day’, during which all employees participate in some form of community work.
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Bain Capital
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In late 2011, Bain Capital moved its headquarters to the John Hancock Tower inBoston, Massachusetts. Bain occupies 210,000 sq. ft. from the 36th to 43rd floors.[2]
Bain Capital is a Boston-headquartered alternative asset management and financial services company that specializes in private equity, venture capital, credit and public market investments. Bain invests across a broad range of industry sectors and geographic regions. As of the beginning of 2012, the firm manages approximately $66 billion of investor capital across its various investment platforms.The firm was founded in 1984 by partners from the consulting firm Bain & Company. Since inception it has invested in or acquired hundreds of companies including such notable companies as AMC Entertainment, Aspen Education Group, Brookstone, Burger King, Burlington Coat Factory, Clear Channel Communications, Domino's Pizza, DoubleClick, Dunkin' Donuts, D&M Holdings, Guitar Center, Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), Sealy,The Sports Authority, Staples, Toys "R" Us, Warner Music Group and The Weather Channel.
As of the end of 2011, Bain Capital had approximately 400 professionals, most with previous experience in consulting, operations or finance.[1] Bain is headquartered at 111 Huntington Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices in New York City, Chicago, Palo Alto, London, Luxembourg,Munich, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo.
Businesses and affiliates
Bain Capital's family of funds includes private equity, venture capital, public equity and leveraged debt assets.[edit]Bain Capital Private Equity
Bain Capital Private Equity has raised ten funds and invested in more than 250 companies. The private equity activity includes leveraged buyouts and growth capital in a wide variety of industries.[3] Bain began investing in Europe in 1989 through its London-based affiliate Bain Capital Europe.[4] Bain also operates international affiliates Bain Capital Asia and Bain Capital India.Bain Capital Private Equity is made up of more than 250 investment professionals, including 38 managing directors operating from offices in Boston, Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, Munich, New York, Shanghai, and Tokyo, as of the beginning of 2011.
Historically, Bain has primarily relied on private equity funds, pools of committed capital from pension funds, insurance companies, endowments, fund of funds, high net worth individuals, sovereign wealth funds and other institutional investors. Bain's own investment professionals are the largest single investor in each of its funds. From 1993, when Bain raised its first institutional fund through the beginning of 2012, Bain had completed fundraising for 11 funds with total investor commitments of over $38 billion, including its global private equity funds and separate funds focusing specifically on investments in Europe and Asia. Since 1998, each of Bain's global funds has invested alongside a coinvestment fund that invests only in certain larger transactions. The following is a summary of Bain's private equity funds raised from its inception through the beginning of 2012:[5]
| Fund | Vintage Year | Committed Capital ($m) |
| Bain Capital Fund IV | 1993 | $300 |
| Bain Capital Fund V | 1995 | $500 |
| Bain Capital Fund VI | 1998 | $1,400[6] |
| Bain Capital Fund VII | 2000 | $3,117[6] |
| Bain Capital Fund VIII | 2004 | $4,250[6] |
| Bain Capital Fund VIII-E (Europe) | 2004 | $1,015 |
| Bain Capital Fund IX | 2006 | $10,000[6] |
| Bain Capital Europe III | 2008 | € 3,500 |
| Bain Capital Asia | 2008 | $1,000 |
| Bain Capital Fund X | 2008 | $11,800[6] |
| Bain Capital Asia II | 2011 | $2,000 |
[edit]Bain Capital Ventures
Main article: Bain Capital VenturesBain Capital Ventures is the venture capital arm of Bain Capital, focused on seed through late-stage growth equity, investing in business services, consumer, healthcare, internet & mobile, and software companies. Bain Capital Ventures has raised approximately $1.53 billion of investor capital since 2001 across four investment funds. The firm's 30 investment professionals are currently investing its fourth fund, Bain Capital Venture Fund 2009, which raised $525 million from investors.[7]
The following is a summary of Bain's private equity funds raised from its inception through the beginning of 2012:[5]
| Fund | Vintage Year | Committed Capital ($m) |
| Bain Capital Venture Fund | 2001 | $250 |
| Bain Capital Venture Partners 2005 | 2005 | $250 |
| Bain Capital Venture Partners 2007 | 2007 | $500 |
| Bain Capital Venture Partners 2009 | 2009 | $525 |
| Bain Capital Venture Partners 2012 | 2012 | $600[8] |
Since 2001, Bain Capital Ventures' most notable investments include DoubleClick, LinkedIn,[9] Shopping.com, Taleo Corporation, MinuteClinic and SurveyMonkey.[10]
[edit]Brookside Capital
Brookside Capital is the public equity affiliate of Bain Capital. Established in October 1996, Brookside's primary objective is to invest in securities of publicly traded companies that offer opportunities to realize substantial long-term capital appreciation. Brookside employs a long/short equity strategy to reduce market risk in the portfolio[11][edit]Sankaty Advisors
Sankaty Advisors, the fixed income affiliate of Bain Capital, is one of the nation's leading private managers of high yield debt securities. With $15.7 billion of assets under management, Sankaty invests in a wide variety of securities, including leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, distressed securities, mezzanine debt, convertible bonds, structured products and equity investments. Sankaty has approximately 140 employees, including 80 investment professionals across offices in Boston, Chicago, New York and London.[12]
[edit]Absolute Return Capital
Absolute Return Capital (ARC) is the absolute return affiliate of Bain Capital managing approximately $1.2 billion of capital. Approximately one-third of the capital managed by ARC represents commitments from Bain investment professionals. Established in May 2004, ARC invests across fixed income, equity and commodity markets to produce attractive risk-adjusted returns while maintaining low correlation to traditional investments.[13][edit]History
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[edit]Founding and early history
Bain Capital was founded in 1984 by Bain & Company partners Mitt Romney, T. Coleman Andrews III, and Eric Kriss. In 1983, Bill Bain offered Romney the chance to head a new venture that would invest in companies and apply Bain's consulting techniques to improve operations.[14] In the face of skepticism from potential investors, Romney and his partners spent a year raising the $37 million in funds needed to start the new operation, which had fewer than ten employees.[15][16][17][18] In addition to the three founding partners, the early team included Fraser Bullock, Robert F. White, Joshua Bekenstein, Adam Kirsch, and Geoffrey S. Rehnert.[19]While Bain Capital was founded by Bain executives, the firm was not an affiliate or a division of Bain & Company but rather a completely separate company. Initially, the two firms shared the same offices and a similar approach to improving business operations. However, the two firms had put in place certain protections to avoid sharing information between the two companies and the Bain & Company executives had the ability to veto investments that posed potential conflicts of interest.[20] Bain Capital also provided an investment opportunity for partners of Bain & Company. Bain Capital's original $37 million fund was raised entirely from private individuals in mid-1984.[19] The firm initially gave a cut of its profits to Bain & Company, but Romney later persuaded Bain to give that up.[21]
Bain Capital was an initial investor in Staples, Inc.
The Bain Capital team was initially reluctant to invest its capital. The partners saw weak spots in so many potential deals that by 1986, very few had been done.[22] At first, Bain Capital focused on venture capital opportunities.[22] One of Bain's earliest and most notable venture investments was inStaples, Inc., the office supply retailer. The funding enabled Staples to expand from one store in 1986 to over 2000 stores in 2011. In 1986, Bain provided $4.5 million to two supermarket executives, Leo Kahn and Thomas G. Stemberg, to open an office supply supermarket in Brighton, Massachusetts.[23] The fast-growing retail chain went public in 1989[24] and in 1996 the company had grown to over 1,100 stores.[25] Bain Capital eventually reaped a nearly sevenfold return on its investment, and Romney sat on the Staples board of directors for over a decade.[22][17][18] Another very successful investment was a $1 million one in 1986 in medical equipment maker Calumet Coach, which eventually returned $34 million.[26] A few years later, Bain Capital made an investment in the technology research outfit the Gartner Group, which ended up returning a 16-fold gain.[26]Bain invested the $37 million of capital in its first fund in twenty companies and by 1989 was generating an annualized return in excess of 50 percent. By the end of the decade, Bain's second fund, raised in 1987 had deployed $106 million into 13 investments.[27]
[edit]1990s
Beginning in 1989, the firm, which began as a venture capital source investing in start-up companies, adjusted its strategy to focus on leveraged buyouts and growth capital investments in more mature companies.[28] By the end of 1990, Bain had raised $175 million of capital and and financed 35 companies with combined revenues of $3.5 billion.[29]In July 1992, Bain acquired Ampad (originally American Pad & Paper) from Mead Corporation, which had acquired the company in 1986. Mead which had been experiencing difficulties integrating Ampad's products into its existing product lines, generated a cash gain of $56 million on the sale.[30] Under Bain's ownership, the company enjoyed a significant growth in sales from $106.7 million in 1992 to $583.9 million in 1996, when the company was listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Under Bain's ownership, the company also 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 October, 1995, Niagara Envelope Company, Inc. in 1996, and Shade/Allied, Inc. in February 1997.[31] Ampad's revenue began to decline in 1997 and the company laid off employees and closed production facilities to maintain profitability. However, the company filed for bankruptcy in 2001 and the assets were acquired in 2003 by Crescent Investments. Bain's ownership of Ampad, is estimated to have generated more than $100 million in profit for Bain.[32]
In 1994, Bain acquired Totes, a producer of umbrellas and overshoes.[33] Three years later, Totes, under Bain’s ownership, acquired Isotoner, a producer of leather gloves.[34]
Bain, together with Thomas H. Lee Partners, acquired Experian, the consumer credit reporting business of TRW, in 1996 for more than $1 billion. Formerly known as TRW's Information Systems and Services unit, Experian is one of the leading providers of credit reports on consumers and businesses in the US.[35] The company was sold to Great Universal Stores for $1.7 billion just months after being acquired.[36] Other notable Bain investments of the late 1990s included Sealy Corporation, the manufacturer of mattresses;[37] Alliance Laundry Systems;[38] Domino's Pizza[39] and Artisan Entertainment.[40]
Much of the firm's profits was earned from a relatively small number of deals, with Bain Capital's overall success and failure rate being about even. One study of 68 deals that Bain Capital made up through the 1990s found that the firm lost money or broke even on 33 of them.[41] Another study that looked at the eight-year period following 77 deals during the same time found that in 17 cases the company went bankrupt or out of business, and in 6 cases Bain Capital lost all its investment. But 10 deals were very successful and represented 70 percent of the total profits.[42]
By the end of the decade, Bain Capital was on its way to being one of the top private equity firms in the nation,[21] having increased its number of partners from 5 to 18, having 115 employees overall, and having $4 billion under its management.[16][17] Bain Capital's approach of applying consulting expertise to the companies it invested in became widely copied within the private equity industry.[43][17] University of Chicago Booth School of Business economist Steven Kaplan would later say that the firm "came up with a model that was very successful and very innovative and that now everybody uses."[18]
Romney took two leaves of absence from Bain Capital during the first half of the decade. From 1991 to 1992, Romney served as the CEO of Bain & Company where he led the successful turnaround of the consulting firm. In 1994, Romney statged an unsuccessful run for the U.S. Senate seat from Massachusetts.[22][44] Romney left Bain Capital in 1999 when he became the head of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the 2002 Winter Olympics. Although he had left open the possibility of returning to Bain after the Olympics, Romney made his crossover to politics permanent.[45] Romney negotiated a retirement agreement with Bain Capital that allowed him to receive a passive profit share and interest in Bain Capital investment funds in exchange for his ownership in the management company.[46][47]
In 1993 Bain acquired the Armco Worldwide Grinding System steel plant in Kansas City, Missouri and merged it with its steel plant in Georgetown, South Carolina to form GST Steel. The Kansas City plant had a strike in 1997 and Bain closed the plant in 2001 laying off 750 workers when it went into bankruptcy. The South Carolina plant closed in 2003 but subsequently reopened under a different owner. At the time of its bankruptcy it reported $553.9 million in debts against $395.2 in assets. It was charged later[by whom?] that Bain had taken $58.4 million out of the company in profits while saddling with debt and underfunding the employee pension by $44 million.[48][49][50][51]
Bain's investment in Dade Behring represented a significant investment in the medical diagnostics industry. In 1994, Bain, together with Goldman Sachs Capital Partners completed a carveout acquisition of Dade International[52], the medical diagnostics division of Baxter International in a $440 million acquisition. Dade's private equity owners merged the company with DuPont's in vitrodiagnostics business in May 1996 and subsequently with the Behring Diagnostics division of Hoechst AG in 1997.[53] Aventis, the successor of Hoechst, acquired 52% of the combined company.[54] In 1999, the company reported $1.3 billion of revenue and completed a $1.25 billion leveraged recapitalization that resulted in a payout to shareholders.[53] The dividend, taken together with other previous shareholder dividends resulted in an eightfold return on investment to Bain Capital and Goldman Sachs.[26][42] Revenues declined from 1999 through 2002 and despite attempts to cut costs through layoffs the company entered into bankruptcy in 2002. Following its restructuring, Dade Behring emerged from Bankruptcy in 2003 and continued to operate independently until 2007 when the business was acquired by Siemens Medical Solutions. Bain and Goldman lost their remaining stock in the company as part of the bankruptcy.[55] Stephen Pagliuca, who ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination in the 2010 Massachussetts Senate election was a member of the board of Dade Behring during Bain's ownership of the company.[53]
[edit]Early 2000s
Bain Capital began the new decade by closing on its seventh fund, Bain Capital Fund VII with over $3.1 billion of investor commitments. The firm's most notable investments in 2000 included the $700 million acquisition of Datek, the online stock brokerage firm,[56] as well as the $305 million acquisition of KB Toys from Consolidated Stores.[57] Datek was ultimately merged with Ameritrade in 2002. KB Toys, which had been financially troubled since the 1990s as a result of increased pressure from national discount chains such as Wal-Mart and Target, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January 2004. Bain had been able to recover value on its investment through a dividend recapitalization in 2003.[58] In early 2001, Bain purchasd a 30% stake in Huntsman Corporation, a leading chemical company.[59] Bain's $600 million investment in Huntsman has been noted as an interesting footnote in the 2012 Republican Presidential nomination process since Mitt Romney's former firm (he had left Bain in 1999) acquired the company controlled by the father of another candidate Jon Huntsman (Huntsman was an executive of the company at that time).[60]With a significant amount of committed capital in its new fund available for investment, Bain was one of a handful of private equity investors capable of completing large transactions in the adverse conditions of the early 2000s recession. In July 2002, Bain together with TPG Capital and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, announced the high profile $2.3 billion leveraged buyout of Burger King from Diageo.[61] However, in November the original transaction collapsed, when Burger King failed to meet certain performance targets. In December 2002, Bain and its co-investors agreed on a reduced $1.5 billion purchase price for the investment.[62] The Bain consortium had support from Burger King's franchisees, who controlled approximately 92% of Burger King restaurants at the time of the transaction. Under its new owners, Burger King underwent a major brand overhaul including the use of The Burger King character in advertising. In February 2006, Burger King announced plans for an initial public offering.[63]
In late 2002, Bain remained active acquiring Houghton Mifflin Company for $1.28 billion, together with Thomas H. Lee Partners and The Blackstone Group. Houghton Mifflin and Burger King represented two of the first large club deals, completed since the collapse of the Dot-com bubble.[64]
In November 2003, Bain completed an investment in Warner Music Group. In 2004 Bain acquired the Dollarama chain of dollar stores, based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and operating stores in the provinces of Eastern Canada for $1.05 billion CAD. In March 2004, Bain acquired Brenntag Group from Deutsche Bahn AG (Exited in 2006; sold to BC Partners for $4B). In August 2003, Bain acquired a 50% interest in Bombardier Inc.'s recreational products division, along with the Bombardier family and the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, and created Bombardier Recreational Products or BRP.
[edit]Bain and the 2000s Buyout Boom
In 2004 a consortium comprising KKR, Bain Capital and real estate development company Vornado Realty Trust announced the $6.6 billion acquisition of Toys "R" Us, the toy retailer. A month earlier, Cerberus Capital Management, made a $5.5 billion offer for both the toy and baby supplies businesses.[65] The Toys 'R' Us buyout was one of the largest in several years.[66] Following this transaction, by the end of 2004 and in 2005, major buyouts were once again becoming common and market observers were stunned by the leverage levels and financing terms obtained by financial sponsors in their buyouts.[67]The following year, in 2005, Bain was one of seven private equity firms involved in the buyout of SunGard in a transaction valued at $11.3 billion. Bain's partners in the acquisition were Silver Lake Partners, TPG Capital, Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Providence Equity Partners, and The Blackstone Group. This represented the largest leveraged buyout completed since the takeover of RJR Nabisco at the end of the 1980s leveraged buyout boom. Also, at the time of its announcement, SunGard would be the largest buyout of a technology company in history, a distinction it would cede to the buyout ofFreescale Semiconductor. The SunGard transaction is also notable in the number of firms involved in the transaction, the largest club deal completed to that point. The involvement of seven firms in the consortium was criticized by investors in private equity who considered cross-holdings among firms to be generally unattractive.[68][69]
Bain led a consortium, together with The Carlyle Group and Thomas H. Lee Partners to acquire Dunkin' Brands. The private equity firms paid $2.425 billion in cash for the parent company of Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin-Robbins in December 2005.[70] In May 2011, Dunkin' Brands filed with the SEC to raise up to $400 million in an initial public offering.[71]
In 2006, Bain Capital and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, together with Merrill Lynch and the Frist family (which had founded the company) completed a $31.6 billion acquisition of Hospital Corporation of America, 17 years after it was taken private for the first time in a management buyout. At the time of its announcement, the HCA buyout would be the first of several to set new records for the largest buyout, eclipsing the 1989 buyout of RJR Nabisco. It would later be surpassed by the buyouts of Equity Office Properties and TXU.[72] In August 2006, Bain was part of the consortium, together with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Silver Lake Partners and AlpInvest Partners, that acquired a controlling 80.1% share of semiconductors unit of Philips for €6.4 billion. The new company, based in the Netherlands, was renamed NXP Semiconductors.[73][74]
During the buyout boom, Bain was active in the acquisition of various retail businesses.[75] In January 2006, Bain announced the acquisition of Burlington Coat Factory, a discount retailer operating 367 department stores in 42 states, in a $2 billion buyout transaction.[76] Six months later, in October 2006, Bain and The Blackstone Group acquired Michaels Stores, the largest arts and crafts retailer in North America in a $6.0 billion leveraged buyout. Bain and Blackstone narrowly beat out Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and TPG Capital in an auction for the company.[77] In June 2007, Bain agreed to acquire HD Supply, the wholesale construction supply business of Home Depot for $10.3 billion.[78] Bain, along with partners Carlyle Group and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, would later negotiate a lower price ($8.5 billion) when the initial stages of the subprime mortgage crisis caused lenders to seek to renegotiate the terms of the acquisition financing.[79] Just days after the announcement of the HD Supply deal, on June 27, Bain announced the acquisition of Guitar Center, the leading musical equipment retailer in the U.S. Bain paid $1.9 billion, plus $200 million in assumed debt, representing a 26% premium to the stock's closing price prior to the announcement.[80] Bain also acquired Edcon Limited, which operates Edgars Department Stores in South Africa and Zimbabwe for 25 billion-rand ($3.5 billion) in February 2007.[81]
Other investments during the buyout boom included: Bavaria Yachtbau, acquired for €1.3 billion in July 2007[82] as well as Sensata Technologies, acquired from Texas Instruments in 2006 for approximately $3 billion.[83]
[edit]Since 2008
Since the closure of the credit markets in 2007 and 2008, Bain has managed to close only a small number of sizable transactions. In July 2008, Bain, together with NBC Universal and The Blackstone Group agreed to purchase The Weather Channel from Landmark Communications.[84][85]Other recent investments include:
- July 2008 – Bain, together with Thomas H. Lee Partners, acquires Clear Channel Communications.[86]
- July 2008 – Bain acquires D&M Holdings for $442 million.[87]
- June 2009 – Bain Capital announces a deal to acquire a 16% stake in Chinese electronics manufacturer GOME Electrical Appliances for $300 million.[clarification needed]
- March 2010 – Bain acquires Styron (polystyrene, latex), a division of The Dow Chemical Company, for $1.6 billion.[88]
- October 2010 – Bain acquires Gymboree for $1.8 billion.[89]
- January 2012 – Bain acquires Physio-Control for $478 million.[90]
Bain Capital itself, and especially its actions during its first 15 years, came under press scrutiny as the result of Romney's 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns.[26][91][92] However, Bain Capital made as few comments as possible, as even by the standards of the private equity industry it was known for its commitment towards secrecy about itself and privacy for its clients and investors.[92]
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- THE FAILURE TO HOLD ROMNEY ACCOUNTABLE FOR TAX EVASION, AND 700 LIKE HIM, IF YOU MADE 70,000 PAY UP 20% OF GROSS ANNUAL INCOME THEY DIDN’T PAY, YOU COULD PAY OFF THE DEFICIT! (THIS IS WHAT CAUSED US TO BORROW, BTW).
- OUR CONGRESS WHO PERMITTED AND ENGAGED IN INSIDER TRADING AND THE FEDERAL RESERVE TRYING TO COVER THESE LOSSES WITH TAX DOLLARS AND INTEREST MANIPULATION
WE MUST DO 2 THINGS, AMEND THE TAX CODE TO RESOLVE GOVERNMENT GOUGING AND ENTITLEMENT PROGRAMS LEECHING TAX DOLLARS BY SUPPORTING AND EMPOWERING THE IRS TO DO WHAT IT IS SUPPOSED TO DO IN RECOVERING LOST AND UPAID REVENUE:
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UNFORTUNATELY, “END THE FED” IS A LIBERTARIAN POLICY, IT IS NOT THE WILL OF THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS, AND IT IS NOT THE SOLE PROBLEM:
- IT IS COMBINATION OF OBAMA’S FAILED LEADERSHIP,
- FAILED POLICIES,
- AND A PILLAGING POLICY OF THE MIDDLE CLASS AND SMALL BUSINESSES BY CORPORATOCRACY,
- ABUSIVE GOVERNMENT,
- AND THE FACT AMERICA JUST WOKE UP TO IT FULLY WITH AN INABILITY TO MAKE DRASTIC AND IMMEDIATE CHANGES TO REVERSE THE DAMAGE:
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WE CAN NOT COLLAPSE THE FED WITHOUT SERIOUS JEOPARDY TO OUR NATIONAL SECURITY, JUST BECAUSE IT IS POLITICALLY CONVENIENT AND WE’RE PISSED OFF:
-BOYCOTTS WORK: THEY GET ATTENTION BY USE OF NON-VIOLENT MEANS, AND BY TAKING THE MONEY FROM CAUSES THAT ARE AGAINST THE WELL-BEING OF OUR NATION IT FORCES OTHERS TO CHANGE WITHOUT MAKING THE DEMAND “OR ELSE”
-AFTER WE GET THE ATTENTION ON THE CORRECT PROBLEMS, IT IS TIME TO INTRODUCE THE PROPER SOLUTION OR REFORMS
-WE THEN IMPLEMENT REFORM
-WE THEN HOLD PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE
-EVENTUALLY THIS DETERS PEOPLE FROM COMMITTING WRONG IN THE FIRST PLACE, THOUGH EVIL AND THE HUMAN PROPENSITY FOR IT NEVER DIES
-THE POINT IS, WE CHANGE THE BEHAVIOR FOR THE BETTER, SO THAT THE WHOLE IS NOT COMPLETELY COMPROMISED BY THE FEW
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Roemer Drops Out of GOP Race
11:11 AM, FEB 22, 2012 • BY MICHAEL WARREN
The former Louisiana governor will make his plans official Thursday at a news conference in Santa Monica, within hours of another Republican debate that he's been excluded from.
It's that fact that is driving his decision. The party and the major television networks have "turned their backs on the democratic process" by excluding him, even though he's a former governor and congressman, he said in a statement.
Roemer has been waging a campaign based in part on ending the influence of special interests in American politics. He capped donations to his campaign at just $100, and raised about $340,000 from individual donors.
He says he will now run for the nomination of Americans Elect, an independent group seeking ballot access in all 50 states that plans to hold an Internet primary to choose a bipartisan ticket.
Elliot Ackerman of Americans Elect recently told THE WEEKLY STANDARD that his organization wants to break the "anticompetitive duopoly" of the two major parties by fielding a candidate who won't be forced "into the two narrow boxes that the two major parties have regarding policy positions." Could Roemer be the candidate to fit that mold? On the Americans Elect website, he currently has 413 supporters and rising.SITTING IN ON THE TRIAL OF NEUMAN, A MAN WHO NUTTED UP AND SHOT HIS MISTRESS’ HUSBAND AT HER SON’S DAY CARE, DETAILS DISTURBING, SOBERING, AND A TEACHABLE MOMENT ON FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS, AND INTEGRITY IN HANDLING PERSONAL AND FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES LAWFULLY AND IN A WAY THAT DOESN’T HARM OTHERS:
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Telecourt TV: http://www.wsbtv.com/s/news/live/ Hemy Neuman has been painted as being a cold calculated killer, rather than being insane at the time of his wife's death. I will be listening to more of this today, but now that we have gone over men using their man parts as swords, ask yourself: is this a perfect example of what happens when a woman's parts become a weapon against a man? We have to decide if he had psychosis at the time of the murder, and if in general he is a danger to the rest of society.
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By August, she had told her friends her marriage is under stress and Neuman and her husband met for lunch to discuss business.
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'Mrs.' Sneiderman continues to deny their affair, albeit emotional at this point, with flowers and saying she's in Neuman's mind constantly. Tea Party Chief @2012_TeaParty
Even though she says Neuman sent her flowers in emails, she said that she didn't realize that she was being stalked though she says so now.
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Emails reveal that she was fully aware of Neuman's romantic interest in her.
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Neuman did give her chocolates and flowers and she says 'she didn't pay it much attention'... I say Rusty's death could have been prevented. Tea Party Chief @2012_TeaParty
If I were Rusty Sneiderman's parents, this would be the most devastating for me...
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Sneiderman gets really uncomfortable when Neuman's family gets brought up at the dinner conversation before her husband's death.
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Now what also gets me is that she called her boss 5x the morning her husband was shot...
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What else is weird about Sneiderman, she can't remember her own sworn statements and she dogmatically corrects the questioner, #amazing
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@FOX5Atlanta This should be most overwhelming day for a widow who truly loved her husband-she is relieved, smiling and spinning in the chair
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@FOX5Atlanta I am watching: while I can not rule out she had involvement in plotting with Rusty's death, I do feel she has no anger, remorse
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When Sneiderman talks about hearing that it was Neuman who shot her husband she gulps, she doesn't angrily glare at Neuman or anything.
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Then she says it was stupid and ridiculous to be asked about this, even though her friends urged her to contact the police about Neuman.
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Sneiderman went on 5 trips with Neuman and she can't recall going on them -- omy
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What also bothers me is that Sneiderman knew that Neuman could've seen their trip together as a tryst, and she answers she was 'vigilant'
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Perhaps what bothers me the most, is that she appears relieved that Rusty is dead, since not by her hands she could care less/slick as oil
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I find this testimony very unsettling leading up to the events of how Rusty died.... I have to get a cup of coffee now
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The most startling denial has been Sneiderman's inability to recall contents of the poem and who she spoke with about the poem Neuman wrote.
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I really feel if Sneiderman would've reported Neuman or made it clear she was not interested in him w/being married, Rusty would not be dead
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My impression of Sneiderman is that she is very manipulative, unhappy in her marriage, and she used Neuman to get ahead at work/other ways.
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Yesterday Sneiderman rationalized not going to report Neuman-today she can't remember having a conversation with a friend about in July 2010
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In listening to Sneiderman being questioned, she seriously has a memory problem... once yesterday and once today....
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We have to decide if he had psychosis at the time of the murder, and if in general he is a danger to the rest of society.
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is this a perfect example of what happens when a woman's parts become a weapon against a man?
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I will be listening to more of this today, but now that we have gone over men using their man parts as swords, ask yourself:
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Telecourt TV: wsbtv.com/s/news/live/ Hemy Neuman has been painted as being a cold calculated killer, rather than being insane
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Wow she sent her boss 100 photos of her daughter's bday cake, so we can now see that the emotional relationship was reciprocal.
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Between Rusty Sneiderman's parents and Neuman himself, I don't know who feels worse today... Neuman for not walking away or the truth outed.
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Now that 'Mrs.' Sneiderman's @ss is in the hot seat, and she is cornered, she resorts to then calling Neuman a stalker and predator.
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A coworker will give you promotional things, without flowers in emails and without the chocolates/flowers she got from Neuman #OverTheLine
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Neuman had both her kids' bdays in his iPhone and he was sending her promotional items so that she could entertain them #husbanding Tea Party Chief @2012_TeaParty
Neuman quietly sits there: doesn't appear jilted-he very much loves 'Mrs.' Sneiderman and he is a little put out that she denies a lot of it
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Neuman's email shows him as fantasizing that he is her husband/man in her life, important in her life and Sophia's life.
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Emails reveal a very close relationship between 'Mrs.' Sneiderman and her boss, where he counsels her on how to balance her family life.
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Equally disturbing is how she dismisses questioner by saying that she and Neuman had 5,000 conversations not on email and 5,000 emails....
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Very disturbing that 'Mrs.' Sneiderman's email after their Greenville trip, says that she felt that she needed to 'repent for' handholding
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'Mrs.' Sneiderman had a 3 mo. emotional affair that progressed to physical affetion, of hand holding and partner dancing when on a trip.
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'Mrs.' Sneiderman calls Neuman delusional, not knowing why Neuman emailed his female friend and confided that he gave in...
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The relationship progresses from an emotional affair to hand holding, that 'Mrs.' Sneiderman says that she must 'repent for' -- hmmmmmm
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Emails reveal by SEPT/around that time, that she acknowledges she knows that Neuman desires her, and she has obligations/other thoughts
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September emails reveal a 3-4 month emotional affair established between Neuman and 'Mrs.' Sneiderman, discussing plans to meet up
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Even though she says she felt uncomfortable about going to Europe with Neuman, she continued emailing him regarding her children.
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The emotional affair started between 'Mrs.' Sneiderman in July when Neuman read her a poem, all summer the marriage was strained through AUG
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Afraid that their affair would destroy her marriage, emotional or otherwise, 'Mrs.' Sneiderman cut off Mr. Neuman.
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Apparently they engaged in some physical contact that went beyond platonic touching, hence the repentance line/and affection afterwards...
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Affair progressed w/in 3-4 mos. from emotional to physical-'Mrs.' Sneiderman cutting off their 'friendship' escalated to violence 3mos. ltr
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'Mrs.' Sneiderman looks combative, argumentative, defensive, and annoyed because her affair with Neuman was exposed by evidence&questions.
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After 2hrs. of questioning revealing an emotional affair-progressed to physical contact of handholding, dancing, conduct needing repenting:
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'Mrs.' Sneiderman had 4 avenues that could have broken the chain of violence that would have spared the life of her husband.
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I do find that 'Mrs.' Sneiderman was complicit in the death of her husband-evidence of the affair, and failing to quit, go to DHR, or police
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In the 3 months after the marriage vow was broken, the only thing Neuman said was 'what about my job', as if they had discussed this matter.
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I am not clear as to if 'Mrs.' Sneiderman put Neuman up to killing her husband as she called him to warn him about the police afterwards.
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Secondly, it bothers me more that a week after what Neuman did, he felt horribly guilty for killing a man for being manipulated by a woman
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What bothers me the most is 'Mrs.' Sneiderman feels no guilt or shame in what compelled Mr. Neuman to shoot her husband Rusty Sneiderman
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Other testimony has coworkers asked if Neuman stated he'd be having more children in 2010, referring to the fact 'Mrs.' Sneiderman conceived
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This means there was 3 months or so, after 'Mrs.' Sneiderman rejected him, after she had an affair with him.
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If I'm not mistaken from testimony, I heard Neuman propose marrige to 'Mrs.' Sneiderman after she broke her marriage vow to Rusty.
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In questioning someone who worked with Neuman, Neuman seemed unusually placid, not sure if he suppressed the trauma about being cut off.
No offense, but every time I see an ad for Aruba, all I can think of is Natalee Holloway
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I am beginning to wonder if Neuman intended on going into hiding or if he promised to pay off 'Mrs.' Sneiderman's home resultant to November
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I have decided after hearing her testimony, that 'Mrs.' Sneiderman was complicit and just as much to blame morally for the death of Rusty.
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I am not sure if they conspired to kill Rusty, or if she was afraid at that point one or both men would try to kill each other.
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Given the fact that we are unclear what happened 11/19 through 1/3, with it appearing as 'Mrs.' Sneiderman was trying to protect Neuman...
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'Mrs.' Sneiderman had 4 avenues that could have broken the chain of violence that would have spared the life of her husband.
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I do find that 'Mrs.' Sneiderman was complicit in the death of her husband-evidence of the affair, and failing to quit, go to DHR, or police
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In the 3 months after the marriage vow was broken, the only thing Neuman said was 'what about my job', as if they had discussed this matter.
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I am not clear as to if 'Mrs.' Sneiderman put Neuman up to killing her husband as she called him to warn him about the police afterwards.
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Secondly, it bothers me more that a week after what Neuman did, he felt horribly guilty for killing a man for being manipulated by a woman
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I need dates of the trips that they took together, to determine fertile times for 'Mrs.' Sneiderman, but every month 72hrs. around New Moon
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The dates of the trips together alone are significant, as Neuman thinks/may have been concerned that he potentially fathered a child....
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While the dates do not add up for the Colorado tryst date for fertility in July, I'd say that any time between July to September dates.
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So if they were having a secret sexual affair since July, that means 'Mrs.' Sneiderman may have conceived in July, this explains her actions
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'Mrs.' Sneiderman had a sexless, unromantic marriage, and felt burdend by her kids and bills that she did not feel that way with Neuman.
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Now the issue is when did 'Mrs.' Sneiderman conceive and how did that affect Neuman's mental state and behavior subsequent to affair.
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While 'Mrs.' Sneiderman's testimony is conflicting in the time frame of progression of romantic relationship, this confirms a sexual affair.
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In Colorado, Neuman told hotel clerk that he was newly wed to 'Mrs.' Sneiderman/they'd never been apart, and that was 7/17 she'd arrive 7/18
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Unlike 'Mrs.' Sneiderman, I acct. for whereabouts, hormones/activities, how far back you want to go? Where's her proof? http://t.co/ITpPheK Tea Party Chief @2012_TeaParty
Let me just say this: women like Andrea Scheiderman are like black holes that destroy lives-their kids', their huband's-ruin men like Neuman
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10/21 they had a few drinks-she initiated contact by kissing him, and this confused the waitress as she was really upset about her husband
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10/21 'Mrs.' Sneiderman kissed him several times on the lips/affectionately in public, hardly conduct a married person should do/or dancing.
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'Mrs.' Sneiderman's trysts/escaping from her husband/relationship-10/21 they danced, she wanted to get revenge on her husband/groping Neuman
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Fertility is around the New Moon 72hr. window, and if bleeding incurs on the New Moon, 14-17 days after, which matched 10/21 booked tryst.
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10/21 Neuman made a reservation, requesting 2 joining rooms, and this favors fertility, October is also friendship/forgiveness ceremony mo.
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8/26 date 2 rooms joining- booked tryst, under a corporate booking. July and August do not seem to favor fertility but they were having sex.
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The disputed dates are 7/17-7/18 for when hotel employee said Neuman booked the tryst, and 7/21 out and back 7/23 as his flight records.
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Neuman sequestered hotel employee to write a note to go with the flowers and chocolate in July-this was a #LoveTryst told them they were wed
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2 witnesses confirm that Neuman regarded he and Sneiderman as 'newly married' in July, long before Rusty was even shot.
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Real Estate agent says she spoke with him again in September.... we are on break now, and we'll be back with further testimony.
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Neuman's mental state still intact, throughout summer 2010 his marriage ended, until October 2010 when it got physical w/'Mrs.' Sneiderman
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Neuman had told the real estate agent about 'Mrs.' Sneiderman, and complained that his own wife didn't work and it stressed him financially.
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Neuman said he had moved out the summer of 2010, Real Estate Agent said that in August he separated from his wife for marital difficulties.
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Neuman wanted to short sale his home as he was in financial trouble and had 2 twins in college...
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Real Estate agent testifies that she sold Neuman a home in 2006
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Waitress testifies that they were amorously kissing and touching, noting that Neuman grabbed her behind.
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Real Estate Agent verifies that Neuman and 'Mrs.' Sneiderman did seal the tryst with an act of intercourse, telling her she gave in...
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Real Estate Agent confirms the testimony of the 2 hotel clerks, and acknowledges Neuman was having a relationship with Andera #soulmates
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Neuman went to Real Estate agent for advice as an objective woman regarding his family and financial woes.
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Real Estate agent says she spoke with him again in September.... we are on break now, and we'll be back with further testimony.
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Neuman was hospitalized for abdominal pain, which is a reaction to stress that manifested in a physical symptom due to mental strain of #247
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Neuman was at #247 stress scale at moderate risk for illness in SEPT en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_an… was under 'Mrs.' Schneiderman was at #128
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So SEPT 2010, we know that Neuman's marriage is crumbling, he is seeking separation, and divorce is nearly like death of a spouse on #stress
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HR Manager did ask if 'Mrs.' Sneiderman worked for GE, and Neuman said no, and if she would've been told so she would've reported them.
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HR Manager told him that she thought he was just going through a mid-life crises in September 9/28-9/29 and to get counseling
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Neuman acknowledged a loveless and strained financial relationship and that it was mechanical, and that he was considering separation
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9/28-9/29 Neuman goes to Real Estate Agent and HR Manager about for advice for career and matters regarding children/family.
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I do find that Neuman's sanity was a moderate risk consideration, that he does not require imprisonment until death, but must serve the time
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Also Neuman should live with the consequences of his actions, and he should serve a minimum of 21yrs. http://www1.legis.ga.gov/legis/1997_98/fulltext/sb162.htm 25 at most.
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Upon consideration of these facts 'Mrs.' Sneiderman should have to live with her mistakes and involvement being complicit with Rusty's death
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Unfortunately, Rusty Sneiderman is dead-in this case putting down Neuman is only fulfilling the penalty of law that Andrea should face too.
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In light of testimony, it would be too expedient to require the blood of Neuman due to the infidelity of 'Mrs.' Sneiderman, too easy for her
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Testimony of close friends reveals Neuman was a volcano: meaning he seemed fine, there was no smoke out of his ears, but rumbles in his life
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www1.legis.ga.gov/legis/1997_98/… This sentencing guideline is very similar to gang sentencing statute, when behavior(s)/action result in someone's death
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Brooke Mueller Released From Rehab
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After three months of treatment at Cirque Lodge, Charlie Sheen's ex-wife, Brooke Mueller, is ready to get back to her normal life.Mueller's rep Steve Honig, told RadarOnline his 34-year-old client successfully completed an intensive three-month drug and alcohol treatment program.
"Brooke returned to Los Angeles yesterday and has immediately begun an aggressive outpatient program that includes a sober companion," he said. "Brooke is feeling better than ever before, and is committed to continuing treatment for as long as necessary to maintain her total and complete sobriety."
The actress and mother of twin boys entered rehab in early December after she was arrested in Aspen, Colorado, for cocaine possession and assault charges.
It's not the first time Mueller has been to rehab, but sources say her stay at Utah's Cirque Lodge has been her longest. According to an insider, Mueller participated in day programs during her previous attempts at treatment. Her enrollment in a residential program where she wasn't able to make decisions about how she was going to be treated made all the difference.
"She needed long term residential treatment and she got it," the source told RadarOnline. "Brooke is very hopeful for her future, and wants to focus on her recovery and sobriety and being the best mom she can be to her twin toddler sons."
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#JeremyMayfield aol.sportingnews.com/nascar/story/2… if he did, the oxidative damage would have been tremendous in 2009: like steroid abuse and it's not!!
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#JeremyMayfield aol.sportingnews.com/nascar/story/2… there is no way he uses 8-eight balls a day: or even used it 500 times as witnessed by the informant
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Jeremy Mayfield aol.sportingnews.com/nascar/story/2… unfortunately #ConfidentialInformants think: breaking the law and lying to police, they'll avoid arrest
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Jeremy Mayfield aol.sportingnews.com/nascar/story/2… I can smell a pig or a snitch from a mile away, and this has confidential informant written all over it
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Jeremy Mayfield: aol.sportingnews.com/nascar/story/2… unless #source was with him every day for a year and watched Mayfield use it twice a day, it's lies.
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Jeremy Mayfield: aol.sportingnews.com/nascar/story/2… someone else stole the property or gave it to Mayfield for drugs or sold it to him unknowingly
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Jeremy Mayfield: aol.sportingnews.com/nascar/story/2… cigarettes also have 30 different chemicals in it and cause cancer, someone got mad at Mayfield
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Jeremy Mayfield: aol.sportingnews.com/nascar/story/2… half of an eightball has close to the amount of dopamine as 2 cartons of cigarettes, but that's legal
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Jeremy Mayfield: aol.sportingnews.com/nascar/story/2… an ounce of meth is 8, eight balls, nearly impossible to consume in a day... and 2, it was traded.
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Jeremy Mayfield: NASCAR coordinated with investigators on 'baseless' indictment aol.sportingnews.com/nascar/story/2… I'd seriously question #source
Jeremy Mayfield: NASCAR appears to have coordinated with investigators on 'baseless' indictment
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Suspended NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield is indicted by a grand jury Monday in North Carolina on charges of possession of stolen goods stemming from a Nov. 1 search of his property.
- Aja Brooks #JeremyMayfield steroid abuse looks like this, just like meth sores, same thing happens #sepsis after it eats organs http://t.co/NrbcUtb
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Jeremy Mayfield: NASCAR appears to have coordinated with investigators on 'baseless' indictment
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Suspended NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield, embattled in a lawsuit with NASCAR over the results of a 2009 drug test, was indicted by a Catawba County (N.C.) grand jury Monday on charges of possession of stolen goods stemming from a Nov. 1 search of his property.The charges—three felony counts of possession of stolen goods from Fitz Motorsports, Red Bull Racing and office equipment from DEA Ventures—were not a major surprise as law enforcement officials last November seized more than $100,000 with of goods that had been reported stolen. Also found was 1.5 grams of methamphetamine, and Mayfield was indicted on charges of felony possession of the drug in November. The drug case is pending with March 5 as the next scheduled court date.
Mayfield called the charges "baseless" in a statement he released Monday. He indicated the goods were the property of him and his wife and they had been cooperating with investigators since November.
"For some reason, the district attorney’s office simply ignored our offers to explain the sources of the items seized from my property and chose, instead, to indict," Mayfield said. "We do not know if there is any connection between the NASCAR lawsuit and this investigation, but based upon the evidence disclosed to us already by the district attorney’s office, it appears that the Catawba County authorities have been coordinating with NASCAR officials."
NASCAR spokesman David Higdon wouldn't specifically comment on whether NASCAR has talked with Catawba County authorities.
"We've been clear throughout our legal matter with Mr. Mayfield, and we're very comfortable with how we've handled this situation and our case," Higdon said. "We look forward to its resolution very soon."
According to the original search warrant, a source went to police and told them about the stolen goods on the Mayfield property.
"Before this investigation, I have never been charged with any crime more serious than speeding tickets," Mayfield said. "But this investigation apparently started and is based upon the statements of man with a lengthy criminal record. I have offered to cooperate fully with the prosecutors and the sheriff’s department, yet the witness who brought these allegations against me has refused to be interviewed by my attorneys.
"We are left with no choice now but to fight this out in court."
According to the search warrant, a source told police that Mayfield was among a group of people that broke into Fitz Motorsports and stole two surface plates to sell as scrap metal and broke into Red Bull Racing and stole audio equipment and aluminum flooring.
The initial warrant lists three other companies whose reported stolen goods were found on Mayfield's property. The items, according to the warrant, included scrap metal, semi-truck accessories, truck parts, gears and welding equipment.
Seized during the raid on Mayfield’s property was nearly $30,000 of items from Larry Grant and Company (machinery transformers, motorized truck mirrors, lights and hydraulic rubber hose sets) and approximately $67,000 worth of items from Lee Family Real Estate (a welder, alternators, radiators, and buckets and bins of hydraulic fittings), according to the warrant.
Audio visual equipment seized, according to the warrant, included three speakers, stage equipment, a woofer, a mixer and two commercial televisions.
Also among the items seized from Mayfield’s property were a meth pipe and a butane lighter, according to the list of items recovered, which was included in the warrant.
Police returned a few weeks later to recover furniture that had been reported stolen. According to that search warrant, police said Mayfield and another man were in a rear lot at Anderson Truck Lines at 3 a.m. Feb. 26 with a conventional-cab “big rig” style truck used for pulling trailers. Mayfield told them they were resting and police left. Later that day, according to the warrant, four business trailers were reported stolen by Anderson Truck Lines.
"We had offered to provide receipts and photographs showing that the property which the sheriff’s department took from my home, in fact, belongs to me and my wife," Mayfield said. "Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property which legally belongs to me has been seized and kept or distributed to others by the Catawba County sheriff’s department."
Mayfield was suspended by NASCAR in May 2009 after failing a drug test that NASCAR officials say was positive for methamphetamine. NASCAR officials also said that Mayfield failed another drug test in July 2009.
Mayfield is suing NASCAR over his 2009 suspension. Saying that Mayfield couldn’t sue because of waivers he had signed to compete in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series, a judge ruled in favor of NASCAR in May 2010 before the case could ever make it to trial. The U.S. Court of Appeals held a Jan. 24 hearing but has not released a decision on whether to reverse the judge’s ruling.
Mayfield has said he has never used methamphetamine and that the tests are a false positive for a mix of over-the-counter allergy medication and prescription medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
When asked why Mayfield would deal in stolen property, according to the affidavit, “the source advised that Mayfield is a consistent user of methamphetamine and often consumes up to an ounce a day of that substance. The source alleges to have personally witnessed Mayfield purchase and consume methamphetamine over 500 separate times.”
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The Kansas State Board of Healing Arts has ordered the revocation of the medical license of an abortion practitioner.
H.R. 4872 is a Mami Wata contract that Obama has with a fertility goddess, a vow for wealth, like Tanit of old,http://t.co/x12ZjP8
| FEBRUARY 21, 2012 2:00 P.M. Here We Are Women who stand in favor of religious liberty By Helen M. Alvare & Kim Daniels inShare13 Print14 Like countless other women, we’ve been closely following the Obama administration’s attempt to compel religious institutions to provide contraceptive coverage in violation of their beliefs. And like countless other women, over the past several days we’ve heard House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and others repeatedly ask those who oppose the contraceptive mandate, “Where are the women?”Here we are. Advertisement We listened to prominent women purport to speak for us. We watched them duck the fundamental religious-liberty issues at stake. And we saw them assume that all women view cheaper contraceptives and abortion-causing drugs as unqualified goods.In response, we circulated an open letterto a few dozen of our female friends in support of the competing voice offered by Catholic institutions on matters of sex, marriage, and family life. The letter spread, and in 72 hours we received some 750 signatures from a diverse group of women across the country, including women serving overseas. Signatures are still flooding in. Doctors, nurses, lawyers, teachers, mothers, business owners, community volunteers, scholars — women from all walks of life are proud to stand together with the Catholic Church and its invaluable witness. Most of us are Catholic, but some are not. We are Democrats, Republicans, and independents. Many work or have worked for a Catholic institution. We are proud to have been associated not only with the work that Catholic institutions perform in the community — particularly for the most vulnerable — but also with the shared sense of purpose found among colleagues who chose their job because, in a religious institution, a job is also a vocation. To a woman, we are deeply troubled by the mandate’s violation of fundamental religious-liberty protections. Detailed analyses of the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act issues at stake here have already appeared in these pages. But we note that under RFRA, the government cannot substantially burden religious freedom unless the burden furthers a compelling government interest and is the “least restrictive” means of furthering that interest. Yet in the face of widespread opposition, the Obama administration was able to quickly revise the mandate to a version it (wrongly) considers “less restrictive” than its original proposal. That tells you all you need to know about how seriously the administration took its obligation to abide by RFRA in the first place. Those who invoke “women’s health” against those of us who disagree with forcing religious institutions or individuals to violate deeply held beliefs are more than a little mistaken — and more than a little dishonest. Even setting aside their simplistic equation of “costless” birth control with “equality” and “women’s health,” note that they have never responded to the large body of scholarly research indicating that many forms of contraception have serious side effects; or that some contraceptives destroy embryos; or that government contraceptive programs inevitably change the sex, dating, and marriage markets in ways that lead to more empty sex, more non-marital births, and more abortions. It is women who suffer disproportionately when these things happen. No one speaks for all women on these issues. Those who purport to do so are simply attempting to deflect attention from the serious religious-liberty issues at stake. We are proud to stand with the Catholic Church and its rich, life-affirming teachings on sex, marriage, and family life. We call on President Obama, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and our representatives in Congress to respect religious voices, to respect religious liberty, and to allow religious institutions and individuals to continue to provide witness to their faiths in all their fullness. — Helen M. Alvaré is an associate professor of law at George Mason University School of Law, the chair of the Witherspoon Task Force on Conscience Protection, and a consultant to the Pontifical Council for the Laity. Kim Daniels is former counsel to the Thomas More Law Center, where she focused on health-care rights of conscience. Visit womenspeakforthemselves.com to sign the letter yourself. |
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