Let's make it a long one like the rich man deserves:
"Romney to hold retreat for big donors" June 21, 2012
WASHINGTON — Fresh off the best fund-raising stretch of
his presidential campaign, Mitt Romney plans to spend this weekend
strategizing and fraternizing with his
biggest bundlers at a posh resort
in Park City, Utah.
The presumptive nominee and his senior advisers and aides are hosting
two days of policy sessions and campaign strategy discussions at a Deer
Valley resort for more than 100 top fund-raisers and their spouses.
Those who raised more than $100,000 are expected to attend.
More than a
dozen Republican heavy-hitters are scheduled to join the
private retreat as special guests. According to a fund-raiser who is
attending, guests include some GOP stars believed to be contenders to be
Romney’s vice presidential running mate: Representative Paul Ryan of
Wisconsin, Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, and Senator John Thune of
South Dakota.
Former
George W. Bush strategist
Karl Rove, who helps run American Crossroads,
the well-funded GOP super PAC, is planning to speak at the retreat,
said the fund-raiser, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the
event. Rove’s appearance could raise questions because of campaign
finance laws barring any coordination between super PACs and actual
campaigns.
You Democrats should have jailed him when you had the chance. One reason among many that I'm tired of the s*** fooley game.
Senator John
McCain of Arizona, the party’s 2008 presidential
nominee, is also scheduled to attend, according to the fund-raiser.
Other guests slated to appear include former secretaries of state
Condoleezza
Rice and James A.
Baker III, and former Florida governor Jeb
Bush.
Related: War Criminal Returns to White House
The truth is, they never leave. One takes over for another.
Romney’s finance officials have touted the retreat as a
way to reward
top-performing bundlers who make their own donations and then
raise
many times that from within their network of friends and associates.
Also see: Political Odd Couple
Maybe not so odd (more on that later).
The retreat, which will be
closed entirely to the press, is set to
begin Friday with a series of policy question-and-answer sessions with
Romney.
Related: Reporters Pay Price For Freedom of Press
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"Romney softens stance on immigration rules; Tells Hispanic group, ‘We can find common ground here’" by
Matt Viser |
Globe Staff, June 21, 2012
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Mitt Romney vowed to complete a 2,000-mile fence along the border to keep illegal immigrants out.
I predict he will break that promise.
The
speech was a significant departure from the blunt rhetoric Romney
adopted during the Republican primary race....
The flip-flopper talking out of both sides of his mouth? No!
Romney
used his father’s story to try to connect with immigrants, something he hasn’t frequently done. “He was born to American parents living in Mexico,” Romney said of
his father, George, who later became governor of Michigan....
Romney
didn’t mention the reason that his
father was born in Mexico,
however.
Then why did he run for an office he could not constitutionally hold? Maybe someone should check Mitt's birth certificate!
More on how he made his money later.
His father’s grandfather – Mitt’s great-grandfather –
fled the
United States to
escape laws against polygamy and
establish a colony in
Mexico where some of Romney’s distant relatives
still live....
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Related:
Meet the Mormons
That's nice, but once you get talking to them:
"9/11. Israel AND the Mormons? Steve Jones BYU professor is early out
of the gate trying to coop the 9/11 truth movement. Bush spends
significant time after 9/11 at BYU. Deep support in the Mormon
community. See Vigilant Citizen and aanirgifan archives on what a very
strange cult this is. Sometime has to be spent delving into their deep
connections with Israel both historically and via religious belief. And
then there is 9/11 1857...the date when the Mormons massacred 120 men,
women and children under a truce flag at Mountains Meadows Utah. This
is a very messianic masonic cult with a great deal of financial clout
and a cult that believes that endless wars must be fought to usher in
the messianic age. Romney the Mormon Bishop....another very scary
American pyscopath who may well be where he is for very scary reasons."
(Blog editor slowly starts walking away from them)
"Romney staff watching Fla. official’s job talk" June 22, 2012
TALLAHASSEE — Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign asked
Florida Governor Rick Scott to
tone down his statements heralding
improvements in the state’s economy because they
clash with the
presumptive Republican nominee’s message that the nation is suffering
under President Obama, according to two people familiar with the matter.
I don't believe this economy is improving at all (hundreds of job cuts in the papers every day), and I've reached the point where I will never believe the horse s*** shoveled by the corporate media.
Scott, a Republican, was asked to say that the state’s jobless rate
could improve faster under a Romney presidency, according to the people,
who asked not to be named.
What’s unfolding in Florida highlights a dilemma for the Romney
campaign: how to allow Republican governors to take credit for economic
improvements in their states while faulting Obama’s stewardship of the
national economy. Republican governors in Ohio, Virginia, Michigan, and
Wisconsin also have highlighted improving economies.
See: Romney Will Steal Rust Belt
Scott
should follow the advice of the Romney campaign and it won’t
undermine
his own message, said Mac Stipanovich, a political strategist and
lobbyist in Florida.
Romney’s campaign is eager to sell its economy message in Florida,
one of the most competitive electoral battle grounds, where the past
three presidential races were decided by 5 percentage points or less.
Related: How Mitt Romney Will Steal Florida
A Romney adviser made the request this week to Scott’s staff after
press releases from the governor’s reelection campaign and Internet
messages from the Florida Chamber of Commerce trumpeted the state’s drop
to 8.6 percent unemployment rate in May from 8.7 percent in April, the
people said. The national unemployment rate is 8.2 percent.
Scott’s news release said the jobless rate had dropped 11 consecutive
months in Florida and asked supporters to ‘‘spread the news.’’
Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul said Romney often praises
governors ‘‘for their ability to overcome the job-stifling policies of
the Obama administration.’’
A Scott spokesman didn’t return phone calls seeking comment.
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Wait a minute, I just got a tweet:
"Presidential race takes nasty turn; Romney, Obama campaigns trade some low blows" by
Matt Viser |
Globe Staff, June 22, 2012
WASHINGTON — When President Obama landed in Cleveland
recently to give a speech on the crucial subject of the American
economy, a campaign bus plastered with the logo of Mitt Romney showed
up, honking. Then circling around. Then honking some more.
When Romney traveled through Pennsylvania on a six-state bus tour,
Democrats dispatched protesters, including former governor Ed Rendell,
to a WaWa convenience store where Romney was slated to appear. Romney
diverted his bus to a different WaWa, spurring calls of cowardice from
the Democrats.
See: Why Romney Loses the Rust Belt
Both
campaigns have latched onto
Twitter as a weapon of choice in
instantaneous snipefests, each side eager to
tarnish the opposition’s
message and
gain a minor edge in a rapid news cycle, complete with a
clever hash tag.
Must be a misspelling because the correct word is vapid.
This race for president — one that will
decide who will occupy the
most powerful office in the world — has in recent weeks
degenerated into
a
heckling war on the campaign trail, fueled by sophomoric stunts and
Twitter taunts.
Heckling has been a staple of American politics and political protest
for centuries, of course. Not only can
hecklers drown out a candidate’s
words on the stump, they can also
dominate news coverage of the event.
But....
Uh-huh.
Related: Romney's Ruffians Cause Mayhem Outside Massachusetts State House
Yeah, they dominate when the agenda-pushing media feels like it.
Now, the campaigns are
squabbling over whether
heckling is a fair tactic to employ....
Meanwhile, both campaigns and the mouthpiece media are heckling you, Americans.
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"Mitt Romney donors get access for the weekend" June 24, 2012
Mitt Romney is hosting a
weekend retreat for wealthy
donors in Park City, Utah, offering backers the chance to mingle with
campaign aides, Republican officials, and the candidate himself at a
series of events.
More than 500 donors were expected to attend the event, which began
Friday and is open only to individuals who have given $50,000 or are
raising at least $250,000 to benefit Romney’s White House bid.
Having decided not to take public financing for the general election,
the presumptive Republican presidential candidate has devoted much of
his time since locking down his party’s nomination to flying across the
country to woo top donors.
The
schedule for the
retreat at the Utah ski area includes closed-door
gatherings with the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, Senator John
McCain of Arizona, as well as former Florida governor Jeb Bush and
three officeholders who have been mentioned in news reports as possible
Romney running mates....
Fund-raisers will also receive
private strategy briefings from
campaign and party officials, including former White House adviser Karl
Rove, and lectures on foreign policy, energy, and the financial sector,
according to a schedule of events obtained from attendees. Former
secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and James A. Baker III will be
among those discussing
foreign affairs.
The mingling began on the flight from Salt Lake City with executives,
lobbyists, politicians, and campaign staff. Donors attended a cookout
Friday with the presumptive Republican presidential nominee at Olympic
Park, the site of the 2002 winter games that Romney ran as chief
executive officer.
The
weekend concludes with a round of golf at Red Ledges, described
as an
elite private community with an 18-hole course designed by Jack
Nicklaus.
Romney and the Republican Party outraised Democrats in this campaign
cycle for the first time last month, collecting more than $76.8 million,
nearly $17 million more than President Obama and his allies.
I guess that is why Obama has stooped so low as to ask for wedding gifts. How pathetic.
Obama also has spent much time at fund-raising events, including high-profile dinners at the homes of celebrities.
See: Obama's Election-Year Tightrope
$60 million seems like a lot to me for one month's "work."
Also see: Why Is Big Business Unhappy With Obama?
You got me on that one.
Obama’s campaign has disclosed the names of its so-called bundlers —
those who pledge to raise large amounts of funds for him — while
Romney’s campaign has refused to release a list of its top
fund-raisers.
In coming weeks, Romney has fund-raising events scheduled in New York; Aspen, Colo.; and Jackson Hole, Wyo.
Top donors to Romney already get access to
weekly strategy calls and
updates from campaign officials and other Republicans, efforts
organized by aide Spencer Zwick.
Related: Nominating Romney Means Return of Bush
California's Miracle Worker
Mitt's going to win there, too?
Potential donors have been invited to
Romney’s vacation home on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire for lunch
and boat rides.
See: Romney's Rooms
Oh, he also has a mansion in California?
The retreat is being held on
familiar turf for Romney. He owned a
seven-bedroom, 9,500 square-foot log cabin in Park City before selling
it as he geared up for his 2012 presidential run.
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Long weekends always leek into Monday:
"
Romney spends weekend with top fund-raisers in Utah
Mitt Romney spent time this weekend with his top fund-raisers,
rewarding some 500 donors and bundlers who are doing the most to help
him close the gap between his campaign and President Obama’s.
The retreat, which was open to those who have given $50,000 or are
raising at least $250,000, was held in Park City, Utah, in the shadows
of the mountains that were home to the 2002 Winter Olympics. Romney
frequently alludes to his work running the Olympics as an example of his
management prowess.
Romney’s political team flew in for the event and spent personal time
with the business executives, lobbyists, and politicians who are close
to Romney.
The event, which The
New York Times reported was dubbed by some as
Republicanpalooza, featured some of the top names in politics, including
operative Karl Rove, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, and the 2008
Republican nominee, Senator John McCain.
Also on hand were a number of potential vice presidential nominees,
including Representative Paul Ryan, of Wisconsin; Senator Rob Portman,
of Ohio; and the former Minnesota governor, Tim Pawlenty.
The fund-raisers were treated to strategy briefings from campaign
officials and lectures on policy proposals from top Republicans.
The weekend concluded with a round of golf Sunday at an 18-hole course designed by Jack Nicklaus.
The former Massachusetts governor has always had a
well-oiled
fund-raising machine, but in the weeks since clinching the Republican
nomination, he has been
closing the gap with Obama’s vaunted
fund-raising operation.
Unlike Obama, Romney has not disclosed his bundlers, other than the
registered lobbyists that he is forced to disclose under federal law.
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Here is how Mitt used to spend his weekends:
"Mitt Romney’s prankster ways continued in college; Friends say he impersonated an officer at Stanford" by
Michael Kranish |
Globe Staff, June 24, 2012
Lewis Black vividly recalls the day when his Stanford
University classmate, Mitt Romney,
put on a police uniform, walked
behind a mutual friend, and announced gravely, “You’re
under arrest.”
It was, Black said in an interview, just one aspect of Romney’s
continuation of a
prank he had begun during his high school years:
impersonating a police officer. Black said Romney was known to put a
police-like
whirring cherry top on his white Rambler, put on a uniform,
and ride around in a “
fake police car.”
Ummm, it is NOT just a PRANK, it is a CRIME!!!!!!!!!!!!
“I remembered him telling us that he
liked to pull people over,” Black said.
Romney’s
love of
pranks is by
now well known, including some that were perceived
as crossing the line. Romney has talked about dressing up as a police
officer to pull
pranks at his Cranbrook prep school in Michigan.
Related: Boston Globe Bullies Mitt Romney
Seems to me like they are treating him awfully nice.
Btw, the well-known remark is a nod to the blogs that reported this weeks ago.
But his
continuation of this practice at Stanford,
confirmed by a
number of his classmates in recent interviews, appears to have
gone on
more frequently and longer than has been generally realized.
Oh, THAT IS TROUBLING and shows signs of MENTAL DERANGEMENT!
Classmate David Lee recalled
driving around the Stanford campus with
Romney
in search of students from the University of California,
Berkeley, who were known to
pull pranks on the Stanford campus. As
Romney drove his white Rambler in the dark, he pulled out a “cherry top”
whirring light that he brought with him from Michigan. Romney was not
wearing a uniform on this occasion.
Yeah, it's ALL COLLEGE HIJINKS -- like what Rush Limbaugh said torture was, right?
“He pulled out a portable light that plugged in,” Lee said. “We were
just running around campus, I wouldn’t say wildly, but aimlessly,
looking for Cal guys. We
never found any. I don’t know what we would
have done if we had.”
Look at him back off the whole thing.
A third classmate, Richard Wall, said
Romney wore what appeared to be
a
security guard uniform when roaming campus in his Rambler with the
police cherry top.
“He would occasionally drive around
after dark, and he had a
flashing
light he could hook into a cigarette lighter,” Wall said. “He would
find kids making out in a car and
give them tickets. It was probably
bogus. I
don’t think there was any venal intent on Romney’s part. I just
think he
thought it was funny.”
Which shows a SELF-CENTERED SICKNESS that is REALLY SCARY!!
Romney has acknowledged similar
stunts. He was
paraphrased in a
Boston Globe story in 2005 as saying that he remembered “
dressing up as
a police officer himself and
startling his friends and their
girlfriends by
rapping on the steamed-up windows of their parked cars.”
Ooooh, so THIS HAS BEEN OUT THERE for YEARS, huh?
And the Globe WAITED until the NATIONAL MEMO broke the story? And they wonder why their cratering readership now consists only of Jews and elites (and me)?
So, MITT GOT HIS JOLLIES out of sneaking up on kids making out in cars, huh? That shows DISTURBING SIGNS of SEXUAL REPRESSION!
These accounts
follow a recollection from another Romney classmate at
Stanford, Robin Madden, who told a publication called
The National Memo
earlier this month that Romney had
boasted of
using a police officer’s
uniform and had displayed it in his dorm room.
“We thought it was all
pretty weird,” Madden was quoted as saying.
“We all thought, ‘Wow, that’s
pretty creepy.’ And after that, we
didn’t
have much interaction with him.”
Neither would I -- and I would have reported him to the police.
Related: Mississippi Highway Patrol
And off into the memory hole distance it goes....
Romney
first pulled the police act when he was a student at
Cranbrook, an
elite prep school in his hometown of Bloomfield Hills,
Mich.
Yeah, where he BULLIED a KID!!
It was
late one night when Romney put on the
uniform of a state
trooper, put a whirring “cherry top” on his car, and pulled up to a
vehicle occupied by two couples.
That is a CRIME!
Romney had
let the two male friends in the car in on the prank. They
had put beer bottles in the trunk ahead of time. When Romney-as-officer
pulled up, the two
girls in the car thought an arrest was underway.
What FUN DATES, huh?
Romney
pretended surprise at discovering the beer bottles, pulled out
the two boys, and placed them under
fake arrest. Romney and the two
boys then
drove away, leaving the two
girls stranded.
WHAT?!!!!???!!!!
“He came up to the car and pretended to be a cop. . . . He asked me
to get out of the car and open the trunk, at which point we found the
beer,” Graham McDonald, one of the friends involved in the prank, said
last year in an interview for the biography, “The Real Romney” by two
Globe staff reporters. “It was a
terrible thing to do. We
came back
shortly. We didn’t leave the damsels in distress.”
Yeah, and YOU GUYS can TAKE US HOME NOW, please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After graduating from Cranbrook, Romney spent a year at Stanford,
where the campus was being roiled by antiwar protests. Romney was
appalled at the antiestablishment mood on campus and
famously protested
the antiwar protesters.
But he DIDN'T SIGN UP to GO FIGHT!!!!
Sorry, but WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH CHICKENHAWK PRESIDENTS and DON'T NEED ANOTHER SICKIE!!!!
Accounts differ about whether Romney used the same Michigan state
trooper’s uniform at Stanford that he had worn at Cranbrook. Some
classmates have said it was a Michigan uniform or a security guard suit.
Black described it as a “rent-a-cop” outfit without Michigan markings.
Does it make a difference?
A number of Romney’s classmates said in separate interviews that he
sometimes drove people around in a Rambler, the car that his father had
built his reputation on while running American Motors Corp. The campus
police force also used Ramblers, which may have
helped Romney blend in
as a supposed officer.
Romney may have
risked arrest as a result of his actions. According
to Michigan law around the time that Romney attended Cranbrook, it was a
misdemeanor for individuals to “
falsely assume or pretend to be” a
police officer.
It would not be looked on favorably if you or I did it!
Under California law at the time, it was a
misdemeanor for someone to
wear a police-like badge or use a device if such measures were intended
to “induce” the average person to believe he is a “peace officer.”
Like I said, a CRIME!!!
Peter Keane, professor of law and dean emeritus of the Golden Gate
University School of Law in San Francisco, said that if Romney wore a
police uniform or put a siren on his car, then “he was
violating the law
as it was
understood and interpreted at the time. . . . If you did wear
a police officer uniform and badge in California, you were
arrested and
could be prosecuted and convicted.”
And NOW, too!!!!
Of course, bully Mitt wasn't any of those things, and even had he Daddy would have gotten him off.
Keane, while not having direct knowledge of Romney’s actions, said
people who impersonate police officers often
long to be “an authority
figure. There is an
underlying psychology of those people that they are
power hungry.” Their aim is “being
able to direct people as to what they
should do and not do,” Keane said.
NOT the kind of man we want as a PRESIDENT!!!!
A Romney campaign spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.
Wall said that Romney’s actions
paled compared to some pranks pulled
by rowdier Stanford students. “There were
far worse things done by
people than what Romney did,” Wall said.
Yeah, well, THEY are NOT RUNNING for PRESIDENT!!!
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And down the Globe memory hole it goes.
Okay, back to work:
"The story behind Romney and the junk bond king; Deal with Michael Milken in the late ’80s transformed Bain Capital and the future candidate’s business career" by
Michael Kranish and
Beth Healy |
Globe Staff, June 24, 2012
It was at the height of the 1980s buyout boom when Mitt Romney
went in search of $300 million to finance one of the most lucrative
deals he would ever manage. The man who would help provide the money was
none other than the famed junk-bond king Michael Milken.
What transpired would become not just
one of the most profitable
leveraged buyouts of the era, but also one of the most revealing stories
of Romney’s Bain Capital career. It showed how he pivoted from being a
relatively cautious investor to risking his reputation for a big payoff.
It is
one that Romney has rarely, if ever, mentioned in his two bids
for the presidency, perhaps because the Houston-based department store
chain that Bain assembled later went into bankruptcy.
But what distinguishes this deal from the nearly 100 others that
Romney did over a 15-year period was his close work with Milken’s firm,
Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. At the time of the deal, it was widely known
that Milken and his company were under federal investigation, yet
Romney decided to go ahead with the deal because Drexel had a unique
ability to sell high-risk, high-yield debt instruments, known as “junk
bonds.”
So ROMNEY built his FORTUNE on JUNK?!!
The
Obama campaign has criticized the deal as showing
Romney’s eagerness to
make a “profit at any cost,” because
workers lost jobs, and challenged
Romney’s assertion that his business background best prepares him for
the presidency.
Related: Throwing the Booker at Obama Over Bain
Are you TIRED of the S*** POLITICAL FOOLEYS yet?
Romney, meanwhile, once referred to the deal as
emanating from “the
glorious days of Drexel Burnham,” saying, “it was
fun while it lasted,” in a
little-noticed interview with American Banker
magazine.
Yup, ripping off people and destroying their lives is FUN!
The
“glorious” part, for Romney at least, was that he used
junk-bond
financing to turn a
$10 million investment into a
$175 million profit
for himself, his partners, and his investors.
And the COMPANY went BANKRUPT, huh?
It marked a turning point
for Romney, according to Marc Wolpow, a former Drexel employee who was
involved in the deal and later was hired by Romney to work at Bain
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Also see:
Romney leaves vital questions unanswered on immigration
Decision on Arizona law underscores need for congressional action
Boston set to relaunch Tea Party museum
So what lies are we being told now?
Does it mention the colonists dressing as Indians in what is a false flag operation?
Boston Tea Party museum reopening will put misconceptions to rest
Oh, another PRANK!!!
And maybe it was just me, but the tone of those last two pieces seemed to be channeling empathy for the empire even from over 200 years ago.
Another look at the American Revolution: PEOPLE POWER IN THE USA
