This is another powerful Mormon tale which Romney campaigns have used in ads, for years.
Here is the truth regarding the teenage daughter of a fellow Mormon Bishop, Melissa Gay.
This one time effort (never duplicated in any form) for a powerful, wealthy fellow Mormon leader and Bain executive has never been done again by Mormon Bishop Romney, it was Mormon insider stuff by the elites, way over the top for a teen girl that went to a rave and stayed with her friends for a couple of days.
Mormon Bishop, Robert Gay, the Bain executive is at the top among Mormon leaders, On March 31, 2012, he became a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy.
“But several acquaintances of the teen who knew her well at the time and have not spoken publicly before told The Daily a different story: one of a rebellious adolescent in a moment of high-spirited escapism who hid from her parents in relative safety in an upscale New Jersey town.
And they credited the group of new friends she made during her disappearance, including a boyfriend, as the ones who ultimately encouraged Melissa Gay — daughter of Romney’s colleague at private equity firm Bain Capital — to head home to her panicked family.”
“Did Mitt Romney ‘save’ this girl? No,” said Doug Becker, the then-boyfriend and now a 32-year-old pastor in the same town of Rockaway, N.J. “But I do think what spurred her going home was the kind of coverage it was getting, and I think [Romney] was pretty responsible for that.”
“Another childhood friend, speaking anonymously, was more blunt. “I think the ad is incredibly misleading. Dishonest is the word for it,” the friend said. “She wasn’t saved, she ran away to go to a rave, and got lost and wound up in New Jersey. She paged a friend to come get her.”
A Mormon and a Bain executive. How dare he.
I find your comments comprehensively irrelevant.
Whether she was in danger or was “saved” by Romney’s action isn’t the point.
Nobody knew whether she was or was not in danger. That’s why they call it “missing.”
The point is that the effort was made, at private expense.
So they’re attacking Romney ads that he isn’t using in this race? I don’t see that going far.
You got it, Ans
The original Boston Global story, is also a good read very different from whats reported now.
The story has taken a grain of truth and been expanded into a fairy tale.