Interesting report on Romney’s family in Mexico. The Romney family moved to Mexico over a hundred years ago and founded a Mormon community there.
They come across as very down to earth, warm and genuine people. Ranchers, salt of the earth folks that I like to know. People that feel their word and honor is important. Nothing like the Romney that is running for President. He’s so cold and calculating He’s said little about this branch of the family. A shame because I think they would be an asset. He seems to have forgotten his rural roots and his heritage.
It is a bit spooky how many of those high school kids look like Romney. I guess thats a result of the polygamy they used to practice. Lots of kids born from the same daddies.
Interesting that most of those people have dual Mexican/American citizenship. I think they said Mitt Romney (the ex gov) was born there too? But he’s an American citizen and moved back here very early in his life. Its only a hundred or so miles across the border.
Yeah, a lot of FLDS and polygamist mormons went to Mexico to settle because they could practice polygamy there. Romney’s roots are grounded in illegal polygamy. Not really so much a political asset, if you ask me. Of course he seems to have forgotten his rural heritage… he is purposely distancing himself from it, so as not to be tainted by the image of the one man-many women sacred family values.
Mitt Romney was born in Detroit, the son of auto exec (and future Michigan governor) George Romney. George Romney was born in Mexico, but his family moved to the US right around his fifth birthday. Mitt Romney’s mother Lenore was born in Utah. It’s a bit of a stretch to say that Mexican LDS colonies represent Mitt Romney’s “heritage” more significantly than the other places that he or his parents lived.