WEALTHY CEO THREATENS TO FIRE EMPLOYEES IF PRESIDENT OBAMA IS RE-ELECTED
Heard about the multi-millionaire CEO who is building the largest house in America, and told his employees in a lengthy e-mail that he was going to fire them if President Barack Obama gets re-elected? That guy’s a real jerk, right? According to Gawker , David Siegel — founder and CEO of Westgate Resorts, a huge national timeshare and one of the largest resort developers in the world — used to be a billionaire, but after the economic recession, he got downgraded to a hundred-millionaire. (Poor him, right?) He and his wife Jackie recently appeared on the documentary “ Queen of Versailles ,” which covered the couple’s rags-to-riches story and their ongoing quest to construct the largest house in America — a 90,000 square foot reminder of their massive fortune. And now, after losing so much money — because of, you know, the recession, and NOT his extravagant, over-the-top lifestyle — Siegel, a staunch Republican, has politely notified all of his thousands of employees