Report: Romney's family vacation is mandatory
Republican presidential hopeful, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney's home on Lake Winnipesaukee in Wolfeboro, N.H., Monday, July 9, 2007.
/ AP Photo/Jim ColeThe vacation home, which the Republican nominee first visited with his father George, is in a key battleground state: New Hampshire, which neighbors his home state of Massachusetts. But Romney is unlikely to do any campaigning there before his vacation ends on July 4th.
The Post says the family activities include competitive triathlons, football-throwing contests and challenges to see who can hang on a pole the longest. The activities known as the "Romney Olympics." The family also takes on chores from "a chore wheel," The Post reports.
After the daytime sports, which also include tennis and waterskiing, are complete, the adult members of the family convene for meetings, where they discuss their jobs, family-life and anything else of consequence.
Tagg, Romney's oldest son, told The Washington Post in a recent interview that the holiday is mandatory.
"My dad said, 'No, you will make it,'" Tagg recalled during a time he was working for the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team and thought he would not be able to miss work during peak season.
The $8 million, six-bedroom home includes a boat house, tennis and volleyball courts and a private beach, The Post reports. According to the report, other Mormon families vacation in the area and the Fourth of July is a popular holiday complete with a parade.
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"The beatings will continue until morale improves"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If he get to the WH he will do the same all the while imposing his idaels on everyone else. NO THANKS!~
Some people just have no clue what a vacation is all about.
These days when we go on vacation the only hour that anyone works is the hour before we leave to go home, when we're cleaning up!
Ossipi Rah!
OC Ossipi,
Rah, Rah, Rah!
My family has been camping at Wolfesboro forever.
Welcome to the neighborhood, Mitt.
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and if you had any b@lls ... you'd say ... sorry dad, got other priorities that will prevent me from doing what you want me to do ... now that i'm a grown adult who makes my own choices.
This is the weirdest family in America. I wonder what ideas Mitt would have for the country as president?
Whatever happened to camping, fishing and having a barbeque?