Mitt Romney's father, Geoge W. Romney, was the Governor of Michigan at the time. Just think of how much "power" he had when he was in high school. Back in 1965, he practically ruled the school which he did as the student council president. With no youtube, facebook, twitter, bullying was done with no evidence taken, other than witness's verbal recount.
Yes, like he was sadistic with his dog leaving him on top of the car for a 12-hour trip to Canada. Definitely a sicko.
Is it relevant? This happened in 1965 when he was in high school. Any one that believes this is relevant and shows his true character must also believe the same things about Obama. Fifteen years after this Obama was using cocaine. Does that mean we should condemn Obama as a drug addict or should do we let past things stay in the past?
It wouldn't surprise me at all. The guy always came across as a thug.
Just read some of the stories people who use to work with him have told.
Boys will do anything . that no big deal.
IT ALL ABOUT THAT GUY WHO WILL DO EVERYTHING TO BE REELECTED.
ONE SCUMBAG TRYING TO BEAT ANOTHER ONE.
If this is true he has my vote.
This article is circulating on the web. Has anyone tracked down Romney's classmates?
Cranbrook is still around and there is obviously a yearbook you can cross check if anyone wants to bother with it.
One day after President Obama announced his support for marriage equality, the Washington Post reports on the early days of Mitt Romney's evolution on equal rights:
Mitt Romney returned from a three-week spring break in 1965 to resume his studies as a high school senior at the prestigious Cranbrook School. Back on the handsome campus, studded with Tudor brick buildings and manicured fields, he spotted something he thought did not belong at a school where the boys wore ties and carried briefcases. John Lauber, a soft-spoken new student one year behind Romney, was perpetually teased for his nonconformity and presumed homosexuality. Now he was walking around the all-boys school with bleached-blond hair that draped over one eye, and Romney wasn’t having it.
“He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look at him!” an incensed Romney told Matthew Friedemann, his close friend in the Stevens Hall dorm, according to Friedemann’s recollection. Mitt, the teenaged son of Michigan Gov. George Romney, kept complaining about Lauber’s look, Friedemann recalled.
A few days later, Friedemann entered Stevens Hall off the school’s collegiate quad to find Romney marching out of his own room ahead of a prep school posse shouting about their plan to cut Lauber’s hair. Friedemann followed them to a nearby room where they came upon Lauber, tackled him and pinned him to the ground. As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help, Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors. [...]
“It was a hack job,” recalled Maxwell, a childhood friend of Romney who was in the dorm room when the incident occurred. “It was vicious.”
