Replies to post #287935 on Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[benzdealeror2]

Waste your vote on him then.

I think I will write in my vote for Mickey Mouse. The Yr. 2000 proved the peoples vote doesnt mean a damn thing anyway.

[benzdealeror2]

You forgot his affiliation with Fortress.

You know, the Company that is throwing Katrina victims out or their houses right now. Maybe, when HE is elected, these folks will lift themselves from the gutter and "WALK!"..

Fortress Investment Group (NYSE: FIG) is a New York, NY-based asset management firm which manages private equity, hedge funds and real estate and railroad-related investments, with announced plans to move into casinos and horse racing. The company went public on February 9, 2007.[1]
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History

Fortress Investment Group LLC was founded as a private equity firm in 1998 by Wesley R. Edens, a former partner at BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.; Robert Kauffman, a managing director of UBS; and Randal A. Nardone, also a managing director of UBS. Fortress quickly expanded into hedge funds, real estate-related investments and debt securities.
Fortress Investment Group's investments grew rapidly, with its private equity funds netting 39.7% between 1999 and 2006.[2]
As of September 30, 2006, the most recent date for which figures were available before Fortress Investment Group's IPO the firm held around $17.5 billion in private equity, around $9.4 billion in hedge funds and managed two publicly-traded investment companies:
Newcastle Investment Corporation (NYSE: NCT),
Eurocastle Investment Limited (Euronext AMS: ECT
In 2006, Fortress paid Sen. John Edwards, candidate for the 2008 Democratic Party nomination for president, and the 2004 nominee for vice president, $479,512 for his consulting services, a part-time job.