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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (133806)	5/6/2013 2:41:43 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

Already kicked in for AL GORE. Al Gore Is Now 'Romney-Rich' theatlanticwire.com Prompted by a rather impressive month that Gore had last January, Ken Wells and Ari Levy of Bloomberg did an analysis of Gore's public financial transactions to try and get a sense of his net worth. When the lifelong public servant left office in 2001, the former Congressman-turned-Senator-turned-Vice President, was worth about $1.7 million, much of that inherited from his late father, Sen. Al Gore Sr. Pretty impressive for a "farm boy" from Tennessee, but nothing compared to what he's done since then. By turning himself into a technological and environmental evangelist, as well as taking advantage of a few savvy (or lucky) business opportunities, Well and Levy estimate that Gore is now worth about $200 million. Or as they put, he's "Mitt Romney Rich." Not only that, the 65-year-old Gore basically doubled his net worth in January of this year, when he sold his stake in the Current TV network to Al Jazeera. He made around $70 million on that sale, then two weeks later, he sold about $30 million in Apple stock options that he was sitting on. Gore has been an Apple board member since 2003, when the stock was just $7.50 a share. It's now well over $450, even after plummeting more than 20 percent this year.