In July 1996, the 14-year-old daughter of Robert Gay, (partner of Mitt Romney) had disappeared. She had attended a party in New York City and gotten high on ecstasy. Three days later, her distraught father had no idea where she was or why she had disappeared. Mitt Romney took immediate action. “Our children are what life is all about.” Said Romeny. “Everything else takes a back seat.”
Mitt closed down the entire firm and asked all 30 partners and employees to fly to New York to help find Gay’s daughter. Romney set up a command center at the LaGuardia Marriott and hired a private detective firm to assist with the search. He established a toll-free number for tips, coordinating the effort with the NYPD, and then went through his Rolodex calling everyone that Bain did business with in New York and asked them to help find his friend’s missing daughter.
Romney’s accountants at Price Waterhouse Cooper put up posters on street poles, while cashiers at a pharmacy owned by Bain, put fliers in the bag of every shopper. Romney and the other Bain employees scoured New York and talked with every encounter, including prostitutes, drug addicts and the general public.
That day, their hunt made the evening news, which featured photos of the girl and the intense search by the Bain employees. As a result, a teenage boy phoned in and asked if there was a reward, but then hung up abruptly. The NYPD traced the call to a home in New Jersey, where they found the girl in the basement, shivering and experiencing withdrawal symptoms from a massive ecstasy dose. Doctors later said the girl might not have survived another day.
Romney’s former partner credits Mitt Romney with saving his daughter’s life, saying, “It was the most amazing thing, and I’ll never forget this to the day I die.” Written by Robert Kessler
Mitt Romney sees a problem and he creates a solution. He doesn’t do this for self-aggrandizement or for personal gain. He does it because that is the integrity and true grit behind the man we call Mitt.
Many people are unaware that when Romney was asked by his old employer, Bill Bain, to come back to Bain & Company as CEO to rescue the firm from bankruptcy, Romney left Bain Capital to work at Bain & Company for an annual salary of one dollar. When Romney went to the rescue of the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics, he did not accept a salary for three years, nor would he accept reimbursment for his expenses. He also accepted no salary as Governor of Massachusetts.
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