Mitt Romney's Personal Fortune is $202M; Rudy's is $52M; Edwards $54M

[Stephanie]

Rudy's made $52M since he left office in 2002? That's a lot of Louis Vuitton bags.

Fred Thompson has $8M, but that's before he has to lend money to his own campaign.


From Salon >

Monday, Dec. 10, 2007 16:42 EST
Numbers of the Day

$54.7 million, $34.9 million and $1.3 million: The net worths of John and Elizabeth Edwards, Hillary and Bill Clinton and Michelle and Barack Obama, respectively. The three couples together are worth less than half as much as Mitt and Ann Romney, whose net worth comes to $202 million, according to a CNN/Money report.

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html?source=whitelist

MORE INFO HERE > http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/moneymag/0712/gallery.candidates.moneymag/index.html


How is that OUR candidates are chided for their wealth and their big houses and their haircuts? I'd like to know what Romney's cut and color costs him.

[RB TexLa]

1. OK

[Stephanie]

5. Well I think it's interesting that Edwards takes all the flack for being so rich

Yet Romney's four times as rich and even has better hair, and Giuliani's just as rich but you never hear a word about his wealth.

[Richard Steele]

9. And we know how Edwards lined his mattress, but just WHERE did all Rudy's $$$ come from? nm

[Stephanie]

11. Precisely. That's a lot of dough in just five years.

How'd he swing that?

[Richard Steele]

14. I'm gonna assume he rose from humble beginnings to a $52million fortune the AMERICAN way:

Small-time thuggery, leading to mid-time graft and blackmail....

Lather, rinse, REPEAT...

Repeat, repeat, repeat and keep adding folks to yer INbox until
yer the honest-ta-Gawd MAYOR of frickin NYC!

At that point, yer so "Mobbed Up" that no one in their right
mind would DARE ask how you managed to save up an extra
FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS from yer 35 years of NY State Salary.

And hey: appointing yer limo driver to the position of "Chief of Police"
for the largest city in the nation- go for it!

That's the kind of move that NEVER looks suspiciously corrupt! :rofl:

[SoCalDem]

2. BFD... WE are thousandaires.. so there !!

:P:

[stevedeshazer]

3. Hey.

I'm a hundredaire.

Okay, I've seventeen bucks. But I haven't counted the change in the jar, yet.

Damned elitist Du'ers.

[SoCalDem]

4. start flipping over those couch cushions..and check the dog bed too

:)

[Catherine Vincent]

6. How did the Romney's become so well off?

I'll never understand someone that's loaded like that wants to become POTUS.

[JVS]

8. His dad was head of AMC back in the day

[Hoof Hearted]

12. It's the POWER he craves - people all over the world kissing his butt

and having his portrait on little laminated posters in grade schools across America.

But, that's not going to happen. Mitt is in a nose-dive.

[msongs]

7. oprah net worth $2.5 BILLION.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprah_Winfrey

Wonder where dennis kucinich ranks on the list?

Msongs

[jmm]

10. Giuliani saved quite a bit of money

letting New York pay for his affair.

[Yupster]

13. Giuliani's affairs were also cheaper because

he got a volume discount.