(from the comments):"Chris, where is a link to the Greenwich Times article which quoted Livvy Floren as feeling bad for the Fulds? She got ripped on those boards for those remarks."
Here's the article, and here's the quote:
"I feel sick. That's been his whole life," said state Rep. Livvy Floren, R-Greenwich, a friend of Fuld. "You know his heart and soul is in that."
Floren said Fuld and his wife, Kathleen, have been active members of the community and have generously contributed to groups such as the Greenwich High School PTA and Greenwich Country Day School, where their children spent their early years. They have opened their North Street home to parties for the GHS field hockey team, she said.
"I've just always found them to be really delightful people, so low-key and unassuming," said Floren, a former president of the GHS PTA. "I really feel so badly.
I don't see any reason to rip Ms. Floren - she's his friend and is doing what friends are supposed to do, stand up for them in times of trouble. The rest of us who aren't his friends can observe, objectively, that the guy completely ignored his responsibilities as CEO and destroyed the careers of everyone under him. Dummy.
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I agree - Chris - well said!
Mostly I agree, but this woman is a politican (of sorts), and were I her, I'd think of the many, many people who are out jobs than the 1 person who caused it.
Better to at least offer her thoughts on the many - sincere or not - rather than the one who still has tens of millions left.
Had she only added "I know he feels terribly for the employees" rather than how "low-key and unassuming" this paragon of a person is, this would have gone down easier.
It's always the 'Little Guy' that gets the 'Kick-In-The-Butt'!
Millions upon Millions - for screwing others!
When I read this, I thought to myself, "Poor Livvy - I wonder what happened to her tactile sense?"
I consider her a friend, but people who say they feel badly when they mean they feel bad about something or someone need to go back to Freshman English boot camp (that would be high school Freshman English, of course).
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