Lets share 20 facts about Mitt Romney as he battles for the most powerful job profile on earth.
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| US Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney holds a rally in Englewood, Colorado, November 3, 2012. |
- Mitt Romney’s favourite foods are hot dogs and meatloaf cakes.
- In 1996, Romney closed his firm for several days and sent almost all employees to help search for a colleague’s daughter who had gone missing in New York. She was later found unharmed.
- As head of the investment company Bain Capital, Mitt Romney laid off thousands of workers.
- As governor, Mitt Romney made it more expensive to use an ice skating rink, register a boat, take the bar exam, and transport hazardous waste.
- Mitt Romney met his wife, Ann Davies, at a party in 1965; he was 18, she was 15. He began college at Stanford University and took a job as a chauffeur on campus so he could secretly fly home on the weekends to see her. They will be celebrating their 42nd wedding anniversary on March 21, 2013. They have 5 sons, 5 daughters-in-laws and 16 grandchildren.
- Mitt Romney was named after the hotel magnate J. Willard Marriot, also a Mormon and his father’s best friend. He was also named after his father’s cousin, Milton “Mitt” Romney, a quarterback for the Chicago Bears from 1925-1929.
- Romney’s net worth is between $190 million (Dh697 million) and $260 million, which would make him the wealthiest president ever if elected.
- Romney created controversy when in 1983 he had strapped the family dog, Seamus, an Irish setter, to the roof of the family station wagon for a 12-hour drive from Boston to Ontario.
- In 1965, Romney was arrested for sliding down the slopes of a golf course on large blocks of ice.
- In 2009, Romney’s 70-year-old cousin, Meredith Romney, was kidnapped in Mexico and held for ransom in a cave for three days.
- Romney’s hair is so distinctive that fellow customers at his hair salon ask for the “The Mitt”.
- Romney was a leader in the Mormon church while living in Belmont, Massachusetts. He was bishop of the Cambridge congregation, then bishop of Belmont, and in 1986 became president of the Boston-area “stake”, similar to a diocese.
- He has a degree in English Literature.
- He was one of People Magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People in 2002.
- As a 21-year-old Mormon missionary in France he was involved in a serious car crash which killed the wife of the Mormon mission president. Romney was at the wheel at the time but was not responsible for the accident and went on to become the leader of his fellow missionaries.
- Mitt Romney once suffered broken ribs, a fractured arm, a concussion, facial injuries and accidently declared dead, after being in a head on auto collision in France.
- Romney’s great grandfather Miles Romney was a polygamist who left the US for Mexico in 1885 when the LDS Church came under attack from the US government about polygamy. Miles had five wives. Dozens of Romneys still live in Mexico.
- Romney was arrested in front of his young family in 1981 after an altercation with with a park ranger in Massachusetts. The ranger told Romney he was not allowed to launch his boat into a lake and when Romney did it anyway he arrested him for disorderly conduct. No charges were brought.
- He became president and CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee in February 1999 and turned around a scandal-plagued Winter Olympics. Romney donated $1 million to the games and refused to take a salary unless the committee finished in the black.
- One of his favourite presidents is Dwight Eisenhower, and he asked his grandchildren to call him “Ike.”
The 2012 US Election is being held on Tuesday November 6 as Americans
elect a new President to the White House. It will be the 57th election
to be held on this date. Democrat Barack Obama will be running for a
second - and final - term in office.
The balance is held by the nine swing states of Colorado, Florida, Iowa,
Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin
Source: AFP
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