Ex-Speaker Ryan joins private equity firm founded by Romney s son Print this article
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan has joined a private equity firm founded by Mitt Romney’s son, the company announced Wednesday.
Ryan, who served in Congress for two decades and was speaker from 2015 to 2019, joined Solamere Capital as a partner, company officials said Wednesday.
Ryan ran as Romney’s vice presidential running mate in the duo’s unsuccessful 2012 White House bid. Romney is now a U.S. senator representing Utah.
Solamere was founded in 2008 by Romney s son, Tagg Romney, along with Eric Scheuermann and Spencer Zwick.
The firm makes direct investments in operating companies and partners with other private equity and venture capital investors.
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WASHINGTON – Former House Speaker Paul Ryan excoriated fellow Republicans Sunday in a rare statement that called planned GOP efforts to challenge President-elect Joe Biden s win anti-democratic and anti-conservative.
Ryan, a Republican from Wisconsin who served as House Speaker from 2015 to 2019, has seldom weighed in on events since leaving office, but issued a lengthy statement decrying Republican plans to object to certifying the Electoral College results in a joint session of Congress on Wednesday. Twelve incoming and sitting Republican senators and dozens of GOP House members plan to object to the count over President Donald Trump s baseless claims of widespread voter fraud.
Paul Ryan, the Republican former House speaker, on Sunday spoke out against members of his party who had hatched a plan to object to the certification of the Electoral College s December vote that affirmed Trump s reelection defeat. All our basic rights and freedoms flow from a fidelity to the Constitution and the rule of law, Ryan, who represented Wisconsin in the House from 1999 until 2019, said in a statement. This principle is not only fundamentally American but a central tenet of conservatism. Under our system, voters determine the president, and this self-governance cannot sustain itself if the whims of Congress replace the will of the people. I urge members to consider the precedent that it would set.