President Obama appearing in GJ

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1. in the local Rag, says Obama will be in GJ and Denver on the 8th and the Springs and Pueblo on the 9th. He had announce earlier that Obama would be in Pueblo on the 10th. We’ll see.

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   1. Could be done by the time its CO’s turn…or not.  

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   2. if we didn’t have a partisan sec’y of state who is jockeying to disenfranchise voters.

      Anyone know when is the latest date for him to issue rules that affect this election?

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   1. “unemployed”?

      http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…

      References to Romney as a venture capitalist rather than a private-equity executive are “really annoying,” said Larry Lenihan, managing partner at FirstMark Capital, whose investments include online bulletin board Pinterest. “I can’t stand the laziness of the broader press not to differentiate between the two.”

      Kate Mitchell of Scale Venture Partners agrees. “It does more than make me gnash my teeth and roll my eyes,” she said, adding that she is often in Washington talking to lawmakers or engaging with the media to educate them about the difference between PE and VC. Scale’s investments include cloud-storage company Box.

      The NVCA says its staffers have reached out to reporters about a dozen times this year to clarify media reports that labeled Romney’s private equity activities as venture capital.

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      1. between venture capital and private equity?

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         1. The Republican White House hopeful was head of Bain Capital LLC, which does the bulk of its work in private equity and not venture capital, the NVCA would clarify.  Venture capital backs companies from their earliest days, and some go on to create thousands of jobs; private equity typically comes in at later stages to turn around underperforming companies, sometimes via job cuts and other unpopular cost-savings moves.

            . . . venture capital that is about investing in start-ups who are seen to have a promising future (and eventual returns to those investors) from Private Equity which is about taking ownership of a existing under-performing companies with equity, and turning them around, or failing that, disassembling them and cashing in on that equity.

            The difference appears to be between building businesses, and salvaging or profitably liquidating businesses.

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            1. this one is not turning around either !  Guess we’ll have to fire everyone, raid the pensions and garage sale the rest.

               Shucks !

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4. The stunning Texas victory of Ted Cruz, a young Tea Party-backed Republican over an establishment candidate vying for a Senate seat, has already so emboldened the insurgent conservative movement that activists are warning Mitt Romney he had better get on board.

   “These guys [newly elected Tea Party candidates]” are going to force Romney to the right,” said Andrea Shell, a spokeswoman for Tea Party group Freedom Works. “That is our entire mission.”

   Because Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida and Colorado are exactly like Texas.    

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