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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">Our Country should be very sad. We have allowed hate, racism and intolerance to fill the hearts and minds of the souls around us and then we wonder how this could happen in a small town, to children? If you speak hate and intolerance, if you listen to people like Rush Limbaugh and those who are extreme in their thinking then it won't matter the size of your town. Your children hear your hate, they feel your intolerance and they pay the price rather they are the hater or the victim!</span>Mem's Political Scrapbookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738137773635798081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3842102628627832056.post-65193370951677581232012-12-16T08:52:00.004-06:002013-09-11T15:15:52.760-05:00AMERICANS CAN NOW DETERMINE WHERE TO SHOP AND SPEND THEIR MONEY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A big thank you to Curtis McDermott for sharing this list with us!-Mem<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><b><span style="color: magenta;">Price Club/</span></b><b><span style="color: magenta; font-size: 18pt;">Costco</span></b></span> <span style="color: #2672ec;">donated $225K, 99% to Dems</span></div>
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Rite Aid donated $517K,<span style="color: #2672ec;"> </span><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: #2672ec;">60% went to Democrats</span></span></div>
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Magla Products (Stanley tools, Mr. Clean) donated $22K, <span style="color: red;"><span style="color: #2672ec;">100% went to Democrats</span></span></div>
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Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia donated $153K, <span style="color: red;"><span style="color: #2672ec;">99% went to Democrats</span></span></div>
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Estee Lauder donated $448K, <span style="color: red;"><span style="color: #2672ec;">95% went to Democrats</span></span></div>
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Guess, Inc. Donated $145K, <span style="color: red;"><span style="color: #2672ec;">98% went to Democrats</span></span></div>
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Calvin Klein donated $78K, <span style="color: red;"><span style="color: #2672ec;">100% went to Democrats</span></span></div>
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Liz Claiborne, Inc. Donated $34K, <span style="color: red;"><span style="color: #2672ec;">97% went to Democrats</span></span></div>
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Levi Straus donated $26K, <span style="color: red;"><span style="color: #2672ec;">97% went to Democrats</span></span></div>
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Olan Mills donated $175K,<span style="color: #2672ec;"> </span><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: #2672ec;">99% went to Democrats</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d24726;"><span style="color: black;">Amway donated $391K, </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #d24726;">100% Republicans</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d24726;"><span style="color: black;">Kohler Co. (plumbing fixtures) donated $283K, </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #d24726;">100% Republicans</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d24726;"><span style="color: black;">Proctor & Gamble donated $243K,<span style="color: #d24726;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #d24726;">79% went to Republicans</span></span></div>
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Southern Wine & Spirits donated $213K, <span style="color: red;"><span style="color: #2672ec;">73% went to Democrats</span></span></div>
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Joseph E. Seagrams & Sons (incl. Beverage Business and considerable media interests) donated $2M+,<span style="color: #2672ec;"> </span><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: #2672ec;">67% went to Democrats</span></span></div>
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Gallo Winery donated $337K,<span style="color: #2672ec;"> </span><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: #2672ec;">95% went to Democrats</span></span></div>
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Coors & Budweiser donated $174K, <span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #d24726;">92% went to Republicans</span></span></div>
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Brown-Forman Corp. (Southern Comfort, Jack Daniels, Bushmills, Korbel Wines, Lenox China , Dansk and Gorham Silver) donated $644 K -- <span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #d24726;">80% went to Republicans</span></span></div>
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Sonic Corporation donated $83K, <span style="color: red;"><span style="color: #2672ec;">98% went to Democrats</span></span></div>
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Triarc Companies (Arby's, T.J. Cinnamon's, Pasta Connections) donated $112K,<span style="color: #2672ec;"> </span><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: #2672ec;">96% went to Democrats</span></span></div>
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Pilgrim's Pride Corp. (chicken) donated $366K, <span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #d24726;">100% went to Republicans</span></span></div>
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Outback Steakhouse donated $641K,<span style="color: #d24726;"> </span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #d24726;">95% went to Republicans</span></span></div>
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Tricon Global Restaurants (KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell) donated $133K, <span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #d24726;">87% went to Republicans</span></span></div>
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Brinker International (Maggiano's, Brinker Cafe, Chili's, On the Border, Macaroni Grill, Crazymel's, Corner Baker, EatZis) donated $242K, <span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #d24726;">83% went to Republicans</span></span></div>
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Waffle House donated $279K, <span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #d24726;">100% went to Republicans</span></span></div>
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McDonald's Corp. Donated $197K, <span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #d24726;">86% went to Republicans</span></span></div>
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Darden Restaurants (Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Smokey Bones, Bahama Breeze) donated $121K,<span style="color: #d24726;"> </span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #d24726;">89% went to Republicans</span></span></div>
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Heinz <span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #d24726;">Republicans $64,000 </span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: #2672ec;">Democrats $21,300</span>!</span> John Kerry's<span style="color: #d24726;"> wife's</span> company!!!</div>
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Hyatt Corporation donated $187K of which <span style="color: red;"><span style="color: #2672ec;">80% went to Democrats</span></span></div>
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Marriott International $323K,<span style="color: #2672ec;"> </span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #d24726;">81% went to Republicans</span></span></div>
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Holiday Inns donated $38K, <span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #d24726;">71% went to Republicans</span></span></div>
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UPDATE: Fox news claims Ricks apologized. Ricks denies this and states that he did NOT apologize. (Just another Faux lie!)
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: grey; line-height: 14px;"><b>SECRET SERVICE SAYS THE NUMBER OF THREATS AGAINST THE PRESIDENT IS OVERWHELMING</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: grey; line-height: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: grey; line-height: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: grey; line-height: 14px;">President Barack Obama is the target of more than 30 potential death threats a </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">day and is being protected by an increasingly over-stretched Secret Service. He is the most threatened President in history.<br /><br />Since the President took office in 2008, the rate of threats against the president has increased 400% cent. Some threats to the President have been publicized, including the well known alleged plot by white supremacists in Tennessee to rob a gun store, shoot 88 black people, decapitate another 14 and then assassinate the first black president in American history.<br /><br />Most however, are kept under wraps because the Secret Service fears that revealing details of them would only increase the number of copycat attempts.<br /><br />According to the U.S. Secret Service agents, their goal is to immediately respond to any direct threat against the president, the first family, the vice president, or visiting heads of state. Agents are then responsible for determining the credibility of the threat. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: grey; font-family: inherit; line-height: 14px;">Each time there is a threat, the Secret Service consults with the Protective Intelligence Division in Washington, D.C., to decide how far an investigation is going to go. If a federal arrest takes place, it will lead to the most serious or extreme of the end results.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Recently, when Anton Caluori, 31, allegedly emailed the FBI on the morning of August 21st to say he would "kill the president," a Secret Service agent was immediately dispatched to his residence. According to the Department of Justice, Caluori was armed with multiple weapons, making his threat not only credible, but viable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"This case had all the troubling ingredients: threats of violence and explosive devices, multiple weapons with hundreds of rounds and even brandishing of a weapon at law enforcement," said U. S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Caluori was subsequently arrested and charged in federal court with making a threat against the president and assault of a federal agent. If convicted, he could face up to 25 years in prison. He is scheduled to appear in federal court in Seattle Monday for a detention hearing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Recent national events are a stark reminder that the Secret Service has to take these threats of death or violence seriously. While the Secret Service says they take every threat against the president seriously, not all will end in arrest. Threats will come our way from high school students, even junior high school students in the way of prank type calls. There are threats on Twitter and on Facebook and other social sites that allow such comments, but they have to look at them all. People need to know that any type of threat against the president is a violation of federal law.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Secret Service says that many of those who make such threats are mentally ill, and it is the goal of the Secret Service to find them help. It can be "sobering," they said, when agents show up at their door.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">According to the Secret Service, the president is the most threatened person in the U.S., regardless of political party.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you hear or see a threat against our President or his family, take it seriously an call the <a href="http://memspoliticalscrapbook.blogspot.com/p/secret-service-field-office-numbers.html">secret service! </a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">...... who wish to secede. I have good news! Since it would be impossible for <b>each</b> state to come up with the money to buy the land from the federal government I have come up with a solution. If y'all move to Texas, throw your money into one pot then I <b>really</b> think you could pull this off.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 17px;">For all the millions who did </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 17px;">not sign </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 17px;">the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">petition, they are probably the middle class so just do what you do best and hold them hostage.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The really good news, you could fight Mexico for the land again and we all know you guys appreciate a good fight! </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 17px;">Romney will bring all the bayonets and horses you will need. Ryan will bring your vouchers and ladies don't worry about being raped and pillaged. Your body will shut that down.</span><br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-G6MZXXsTZRs/UKLW4YKFNRI/AAAAAAAAFy8/vSv961o9KZU/s1600/westboro-baptist-church-protest-at-the-ticketcity-bowl.7538123.87.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="132" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-G6MZXXsTZRs/UKLW4YKFNRI/AAAAAAAAFy8/vSv961o9KZU/s200/westboro-baptist-church-protest-at-the-ticketcity-bowl.7538123.87.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">You will especially <b>love</b> this part. Once there, the religious right will let you know what you can and can't do so you will <b>never</b> have to think for yourselves again. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The cast of Fox as well as Limbaugh and the Koch Brothers will be there to sign your <b>teabags</b>. (I think you could sell them on E-bay for extra vouchers, especially if they have a <b>picture of Jesus</b> on them but <b>remember</b> to put back a little money for international shipping)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">If you run into Donald Trump and he ask to see your "Gift Certificate" <b>don't freak!</b> You can get one at Macy's or have one shipped from China!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 17px;">In these troubling times we continue to ask ourselves what would Jesus do? Knowing the answer to that we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 17px;">request that you send us </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 17px;">all</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 17px;"> gay and lesbian people and </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 17px;">anyone</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 17px;"> you see that might be a little different then you! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We know that you will be more than happy to send anyone that is <b>NOT</b> White to us! Make sure that you especially send all the ones that are "Black" as <b>our</b> leader will <b>STILL</b> be "Black" and it is better that we keep them all together! </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Don't forget, you will <b>no longer</b> be allowed into the United </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 17px;">States and will be deported back to Texas if caught so </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 17px;">please</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 17px;"> remember to take Grandma with you. (If you get bored or she becomes annoying you can always throw her off the cliff.) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">One last thing, You can send the money for Texas directly to me.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 17px;">(I will need market value) </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 17px;">Please send <b>cash only!</b> </span><br />
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Mem's Political Scrapbookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738137773635798081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3842102628627832056.post-46089313432798275912012-11-10T09:22:00.000-06:002012-11-10T09:22:13.814-06:00The Core Of The Man....This is what many of us saw in President Obama in 2008 and for the past four years!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">My faith in this Country has been renewed. Tonight proved that BIG MONEY, Voter suppression, Voter Fraud and LIES cannot win an election! God Bless our President, his family, Joe Biden and his family and God Bless America!-Mem </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">Update! OMG Kevin would really be smiling now! Colorado just <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/06/amendment-64-passes-in-co_n_2079899.html">legalized</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">Marijuana! For those who don't know Kevin was pronounced dead at 4:20. I know that also made him smile!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Update:This is what's wrong with our Country!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">For the <a href="http://memspoliticalscrapbook.blogspot.com/2011/03/formula-for-creating-angry-and-devoted.html#.UJqO6uTWKX1">Radical</a> Right, Obama Victory Brings <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/11/07/for-the-radical-right-obama-victory-brings-fury-and-fear/">Fury and Fear</a></span><br />
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Mem's Political Scrapbookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738137773635798081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3842102628627832056.post-61330250687792321992012-11-04T15:10:00.001-06:002012-11-04T15:28:32.579-06:00I agree with Dan! This should be (IS) Treason!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I had posted this picture to my FB and my friend wrote this in the comment and I very much agree with him and think this should be brought up to the American people as well as ask where the media has been on this?-Mem</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><a class="UFICommentActorName" data-ft="{"tn":";"}" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=1319175208" href="http://www.facebook.com/dan.touse" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][0]" style="background-color: #edeff4; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14px; text-decoration: none;">Dan Touse</a><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][1]" style="background-color: #edeff4; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"> </span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]" style="background-color: #edeff4; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]."><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[0]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[0].[0]">Add to this: > Perhaps more significant than the the above. the public should know that on the evening of 20 Jan 2009, as all of Washington was celebrating the Inauguration of President Obama, this prominent member of the House of Representatives and</span></span><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]"><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]."><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[0]">future candidate for the Vice President of the United States was engaged in a FOUR Hour meeting with 13 GOP colleagues at the plush Caucus Room Restaurant PLOTTING HOW TO DESTROY THE PRESIDENCY of the just Inaugurated President!!! They mutually agreed to do everything within their power to block or defeat any and every bill or initiative of the President - no matter how critical they might be to the National Welfare! They vowed to do everything possible to portray the President, his policies, and his party, in the most negative manner possible Upon exiting the meeting, participant Gingrich commented this meeting initiated the defeat of President Obama. A few weeks later fellow participant Pete Sessions of Tx boasted they would need to adopt Taliban-like tactics to confuse, disrupt, and defeat the Administration. It is hard to construe this as anything less than </span><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[2]">TREASON! </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: #edeff4; color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 14px;">One would think it would be impossible to nominate let alone vote for such a sleeze!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="background-color: #edeff4; color: #333333; line-height: 14px;"><span class="UFICommentBody"><br id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[6]" /><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[7]">But what I find troubling is that Democrats, Progressives, & progressive orgs like MoveOn and the whole host of others, & the Media ALL Knew this & DID NOTHING. Most of the participants are up for re-election and this most Damning event is not even mentioned. No commercials! No Outrage! I urge FB-ers & orgs to try to raise this issue now. The participants:</span><br id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[8]" /><br id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[9]" /><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[10]">GOP Reps</span><br id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[11]" /><br id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[12]" /><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[13]">ERIC CANTOR [Va] Kevin McCarthy [Ca]</span><br id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[14]" /><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[15]">PAUL RYAN [Wi] Pete Sessions [Tx]</span><br id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[16]" /><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[17]">Jeb Hensarling [Tx] Pete Hoeksta [Mi]</span><br id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[18]" /><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[19]">Dan Lungren [Ca] </span><br id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[20]" /><br id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[21]" /><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[22]">GOP Senators</span><br id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[23]" /><br id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[24]" /><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[25]">Jim DeMint [SC] Jon Kyl [Az]</span><br id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[26]" /><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[27]">Tom Coburn [Ok] John Ensign [Nv]</span><br id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[28]" /><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[29]">Bob Corker [Tn]</span><br id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[30]" /><br id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[31]" /><span id=".reactRoot[15].[1][2][1]{comment513135495363189_90565449}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[3]..[32]">Misc GOP Freaks: Gingrich; Frank Luntz McConnell [and Boehner] were not present at this meeting - they had other issues with Luntz - but were fully complicit. Before leaving the GOP, the late Sen Arlen Spector attended the 1st post-Inaugural GOP Caucus meeting and stated the Leadership was commanding its members to block every Obama initiative. Vice President Biden essentially confirmed this when he reported Eight former GOP Senate colleagues approached him to apologize that they would not be able to help on any issue because they had strict orders from McConnell not to! There are 2 days left... get the word out - Vote these bastards down</span></span></span></span>Mem's Political Scrapbookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738137773635798081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3842102628627832056.post-89551839201624671532012-11-04T07:35:00.000-06:002013-03-31T10:30:56.404-05:00Who Is The Bigger Fool?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This just in: A look at the news from April 29, 2013, the 100th day of the Romney administration. If you don’t like what Mitt Romney’s “real change” would mean, share this video with your friends and make sure you vote on November 6th, 2012.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It’s Personal Now: Republican Women Explain Why They’re <a href="http://www.politicususa.com/personal-now-republican-women-explain-voting-obama.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politicus+USA+%29" style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><b>Voting Obama</b></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">5 Disturbing Signs Romney Would Steer Us to Towards a Capitalist <a href="http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/5-disturbing-signs-romney-would-steer-us-towards-capitalist-dictatorship"><b>Dictatorship</b></a></span></span>
Mem's Political Scrapbookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738137773635798081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3842102628627832056.post-24658770678621809082012-11-02T18:24:00.002-05:002012-11-02T18:24:46.627-05:00George Bush has been missing but he has surfaced today in the Cayman Islands!<div class="promoted-image-caption" style="color: white; line-height: 19px;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">While the last Democratic president, Bill Clinton, is on the campaign trail speaking at rallies on behalf of Barack Obama, the last Republican president, George W. Bush, has been missing in action totally this election. He surfaced today, however, in the <a class="inline_link" href="http://www.examiner.com/topic/cayman-islands" style="color: #3e72a7;">Cayman Islands</a> where he is delivering the keynote address at a private “investment” conference.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The press is locked out. A <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505245_162-57543998/media-blackout-as-bush-speaks-in-cayman-islands/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3e72a7; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">spokesman for the Cayman Alternative Investment Summit says the speech is totally closed</a>to all journalists. Spokesman Dan Kneipp says he is not even permitted to discuss the subject of Bush's speech scheduled for Thursday evening at the Ritz-Carlton. Attendees are paying $4,000 each to get advice at this “investment” seminar. Sponsors include KPMG, a company that provides tax advisory services, and Deutsche Bank.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">What is the conference about? It is about the benefits of using the Cayman Islands to shelter income in order to avoid paying U.S. taxes. How did <a class="inline_link" href="http://www.examiner.com/topic/george-bush" style="color: #3e72a7;">George Bush</a> become an expert on the subject? Perhaps <a class="inline_link" href="http://www.examiner.com/topic/mitt-romney" style="color: #3e72a7;">Mitt Romney</a> gave him some tips.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Just when Romney thought that whole business about his avoiding taxes in offshore accounts was forgotten, George Bush put it all front and center again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Romney knows all about Cayman tax shelters. According to MSNBC, he has invested over $8 million of is money in at least 12 funds listed on the Cayman Islands Registry. He has another fund there with between $5 million and $25 million invested in that one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Romney’s old company Bain Capital has over 138 investments in the Cayman Islands, and they have over 40 secret off show accounts in the Caymans. The Cayman Islands tourism video touts the advantages to investing in the island.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Mitt Romney only released tax returns for two years. They showed that he paid an average of 14% of his income in federal taxes. That is lower than most Americans. Why is his rate so low? In large part because of <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/romney-may-actually-have-paid-less-taxes-than-he-claims" style="color: #3e72a7; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">off-shore accounts in tax havens like the Caymans</a>. The fact that he refuses to release more returns shows that he is hiding something. Oh if we would just hear what George Bush is saying.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Romney has had a hard time relating to the average American because they do not have Swiss Bank accounts and investments in the Cayman Islands. He has been on a make-over since the debates trying to act like a common guy. Bush’s speech today will bring the subject of off shore tax shelters up again just before the election. Democrats are thanking Mr. Bush.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">By <span style="color: #333333;"><b><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/">ThinkProgress</a> </b></span>on Nov 2, 2012 at 9:09 am</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px;">– Despite widespread support in Israel for Mitt Romney’s candidacy for president, Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px;"> </span><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/obama-is-good-for-israel-1.473888" style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px;">announced that it endorses President Obama</a><span style="color: black; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px;">. “The outcome of the elections will be determined by the voters’ decision as to which of the two candidates is good for America. But if any of them are vacillating in their vote over whether Obama has been a good president for Israel, the answer is yes,” the paper writes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">“Despite all the resistance, despite all the setbacks, I've never lost sight of the vision we shared—that you would have a voice.”-Barack Obama</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I have never understood this rhetoric by the media as I have heard President Obama's message and plan for this Country from the very beginning. What you don't hear from the main street media (which should be a topic every single day) is the constant filibusters and obstruction of the tea party republicans. You can't change a Country when you have a "house party" that fights against everything good for the Country just so they can put ONE "Black Man" out of a job! You can't make change when you have "Sheeple" who have lost their homes, their jobs and have no health care but STILL fight their butts off for the rich! "Sheeple" who still fight for the same party that brought America down in the first place!-Mem </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In case you missed it! Nov. 1-2012 Green Bay WI</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The tea party republicans are <b>livid</b> with Governor Chris Christie for working with the President and for praising the President because they have NEVER been about working with the President. They call themselves "patriots" but they should call themselves what they really are! "Domestic Terrorist"! (Tea Party Leaders-The Koch Brothers need their puppet Romney and they know Christie will not be a puppet to them or any party) The President and Chris Christie are doing what's <b>right</b> for the Country, coming together!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I can't deny that I'm fat, but at least I got fat by eating lasagna and not by eating my own, like a certain radio talk-show host.</span></span>Mem's Political Scrapbookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738137773635798081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3842102628627832056.post-69269627825405272472012-11-01T09:52:00.000-05:002012-11-02T08:31:07.570-05:00This goes out to those in Colorado and anyone else who has lost their ever loving mind!(Update-Video)<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Being here in Colorado again I am now realizing that many here are voting based on fear of the "scary black man". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Their <b>justification</b> is economy, <a href="http://memspoliticalscrapbook.blogspot.com/2011/04/in-spite-of-party-of-no-and-those-who.html#.UJKkaRDA8lk">smaller government</a>, <b>parroting</b> <a href="http://memspoliticalscrapbook.blogspot.com/2010/09/fox-is-in-hen-house-with-saudi-royal.html#.UJKmWRDA8lk" style="font-weight: bold;">Fox</a><b> </b><a href="http://memspoliticalscrapbook.blogspot.com/2011/07/all-that-ailes-you-would-be-propaganda.html#.UJKslBDA8lk" style="font-weight: bold;">Propaganda</a><b>, </b>but MANY of these people honestly believe that the President is a Muslim. When did Colorado people get so damn stupid? Many have said...have you watched 2016? Seriously? </span><br />
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Many of these people are "Christians" who are voting for "the Mormon" who they have spent their whole lives calling a "<a href="http://memspoliticalscrapbook.blogspot.com/2012/10/mitts-mentor.html#.UJLwlhDA8lk">cult</a>" but better then the "scary black man who is a <a href="http://memspoliticalscrapbook.blogspot.com/2010/08/while-fox-incites-anger-across-country.html#.UJKmshDA8lk">Muslim</a> and those Muslims all want to kill us" I've been where you are!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I was raised on "fear" of the "end times" and reacted to many things just like you guys are...but guess what...that "person" or "persons" throughout the many years was NOT the <a href="http://memspoliticalscrapbook.blogspot.com/2010/11/religious-right-are-falling-right-into.html#.UJLroBDA8lk">Anti-Christ</a>...the world didn't end...and your vote is going to effect the rest of "our" lives. </span><br />
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If you are going to call yourselves Christians then be Christ Like or drop the theatrics! They are not becoming and certainly NOT the teachings of Christ. If you are going to call yourself Christians then stop picking and choosing from scripture, putting yourselves above God by deciding what is a sin and what will destroy this Country. (Mitt Romney may say he doesn't believe in <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/romney-bain-abortion-stericycle-sec">Abortion</a> but he certainly believes in making money off of Abortion) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">If you say you live by scripture then start killing your children when they defy you. Men stop spilling your seed! Stone your wife when she looks at another man or better yet move to Iran where they still live by the "old laws" and scripture! You cannot pick and choose because that is "legalism", not Christ Like! </span><br />
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If you want to fear something...fear <a href="http://memspoliticalscrapbook.blogspot.com/2012/09/under-romneys-plan-your-economic-future.html#.UJKlwBDA8lk">two</a> men who <a href="http://memspoliticalscrapbook.blogspot.com/2012/08/533-lies-in-30-weeks.html#.UJKlaxDA8lk">LIE</a> at the drop of a hat and have <b>YOU baring false witness</b> towards the President! Fear two men who will seriously <a href="http://memspoliticalscrapbook.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-nation-of-sheep-soon-begets.html#.UJKk8xDA8lk">change</a> your lives <a href="http://memspoliticalscrapbook.blogspot.com/2012/08/romney-chooses-dr-death-as-his-running.html#.UJKlkBDA8lk">forever</a> and <a href="http://memspoliticalscrapbook.blogspot.com/2012/08/romney-chooses-dr-death-as-his-running.html#.UJLxhhDA8lk">NOT</a> in a good way! Speaking of smaller government...Democrats are NOT Pro-Abortion...they are Pro-Choice ...it's about NOT having a government <b>dictate</b> your personal lives!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span class="huge bqQuoteLink" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/martinluth124474.html" style="border: 0px; color: black; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="view quote">He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.</a></span><br /><span class="bodybold" style="border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Martin Luther King, Jr.</span> </span></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Mitt Romney, The Hollow Man </span></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">TUESDAY, OCT 30, 2012 10:45 AM </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">He likens hurricane relief to cleaning up "rubbish and paper products" from a football field. Is he joking? -</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 24px; text-transform: uppercase;">BY</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 24px; text-transform: uppercase;"> </span><a href="http://www.salon.com/" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">JOAN WALSH</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It’s become a platitude to say that no one should be playing politics with Hurricane Sandy, but that’s silly. When the performance of government suddenly becomes a literal matter of life and death to many Americans, we ought to be thinking about what kind of government we want to have, and that involves politics.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 20px;">It’s impossible not to see that this storm has devastated Mitt Romney’s presidential candidacy. The response to the hurricane has seemed like one long dramatic Obama campaign commercial, a lesson in “We’re all in this together,” while Romney, the man who said he’d dismantle FEMA, flails on the sidelines.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Romney’s “relief” event outside of Dayton, Ohio, was surreal enough to be a campaign parody, with the candidate comparing the federal government’s hurricane relief efforts to the time he and some friends had to clean up a football field strewn with “rubbish and paper products.” It was supposed to be a parable of how Republicans handle disaster – with private charity, not government intervention – as Romney told his audience, “It’s part of the American spirit, the American way, to give to people in need.” The Republican went on to talk about the time some Hurricane Katrina survivors were rerouted from Houston to Cape Cod and the good people of Cape Cod responded by donating food and, yes, television sets.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Of course, <a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/10/30/romneys_unhelpful_storm_relief/" style="border: 0px; color: red; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">as Alex Seitz-Wald writes</a>, the Red Cross and other private charities are discouraging the donation of goods, preferring that kind Americans donate funds that can be used where they’re needed, not goods that must be sorted and distributed and may not even be necessary (television sets?).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">That was a funny choice. Maybe it had to do with the fact that New Jersey Gov. <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/83042.html#ixzz2AnvrY5OY" style="border: 0px; color: red; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chris Christie has all but endorsed Obama</a> in the last two days, repeatedly praising his “leadership.” He told the crew on “Morning Joe” that “It’s been very good working with the president. He and his administration have been coordinating with us. It’s been wonderful.” He told “Today” that FEMA’s response has been “excellent,” and he’s repeatedly tweeted his thanks to the president.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">OK, let’s be honest: The New Jersey governor has not been Mitt Romney’s most loyal foot soldier. He was quick to join the calls for Romney to release his tax returns earlier this year, and his keynote speech in Tampa was more like a Christie 2016 campaign kickoff than a tribute to Romney. There’s obviously a heavy element of self-interest in Christie’s response. His approval as governor hinges on how he handles the storm, and so do his presidential aspirations. He’s got a huge incentive to work well with the president. He’s also got some incentive to stick a shiv in the flailing Republican contender, since a Romney loss would clear the way for a Christie 2016 bid as well. He’s clearly playing politics here.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But really, outside of Romney’s embarrassing European tour this summer, when he insulted Britain over Olympics planning and divulged a secret briefing by M16, this is Romney’s worst moment yet. As the storm approached, political reporters dredged up his pledge to “absolutely” restructure FEMA to give power to the states. At a Republican debate in June 2011, he suggested the private sector should do more, because federal spending even on FEMA was “jeopardizing the future of our kids.” Tell that to the kids of New Jersey, Gov. Romney. And of course the Ryan budget would slash funding for FEMA.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">After Romney’s laughable relief event Tuesday, reporters swarmed him to ask if he still favors sending FEMA funding and responsibility back to the states. From the Romney pool report:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Romney won’t answer because he can’t. We saw him pivot to the center, to become the white Barack Obama, in the three debates, as he realized his unpopular policies and his contempt for 47 percent of the country was dooming his presidential bid. He’s got no standing now to talk about how he’d handle this disaster. The heroes of Sandy, so far, are the first responders, the cops and firefighters and emergency technicians, the folks evacuating patients from hospitals and trapped citizens from flooding. These are the people who’ve been demonized by Republicans for the last two years: the public workers who have become the new “welfare queens.” When Obama pushed a jobs bill that would have helped states and cities avoid laying off such workers, GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell derided it as a “bailout,” and Paul Ryan, of course, voted against it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">To top it all off, George W. Bush’s laughable FEMA director, “Heck of a job, Brownie” Michael Brown, is criticizing Obama for reacting too quickly to Sandy. Are Democrats paying Brown to remind voters of the contrast between Obama’s quiet competence and Bush’s disastrous handling of Katrina?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">As I write, the president is arriving at a Red Cross site to ask Americans for donations. Chris Christie, meanwhile, has rebuffed Romney’s offer to visit New Jersey’s devastated shore. (Politics aside: Really, what could Romney offer?) I can’t be sure whether or how much disaster relief will matter to swing state voters outside of the hurricane zone, but I am stranded (on a blue island) in the swing state of Wisconsin, where people are tuned in to the storm and the government response. No one can be reassured by Romney’s empty posturing. Unless there is some government-abetted or neglected further disaster, I think Obama will be reelected next Tuesday. Hurricane Sandy has reminded us what’s at stake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This picture is going around on FB and I don't know a whole lot about the Mormon Church but I do know more then I want to know about Mitt Romney. If the Mormon Church has no problem with a man who lies and cheats then that says a lot about them as well. If the Mormon Church does NOT agree with the lies and lifestyle of Mitt Romney then they should come forward and say so before November 6th! I know Harry Reid is a Mormon and a good person so what say ye? (By the way, Harry Reid was right. Read Bloomberg article below. Mitt hasn't paid taxes for 15 yrs.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This is the<a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/01/29/mitt_and_the_white_horse_prophecy/"> man</a> who wants to be the leader of this Country. </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">If you are going to choose hate and fear because you think the "black guy" is scary, just remember your choice is also effecting my life so I will be knocking on your door when my voucher runs out! Don't forget who was and is Paul Ryan's </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">mentor</a><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> as well! A message to the religious right: God does not <a href="http://memspoliticalscrapbook.blogspot.com/2012/02/when-truth-is-spoken-will-so-called.html#.UI80oxDA8lk">"know" </a>Liars and those who Bare false witness. These two men are False Prophets For <a href="http://memspoliticalscrapbook.blogspot.com/2012/10/romney-really-does-believe-god-lives-on.html#.UI8zqRDA8lk">Profit</a> and YOU are supporting the BIG LIE! -Mem</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">Bloomberg News: Romney <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/29/bloomberg-news-romney-rented-mormon-churchs-exemption-to-defer-taxes-for-15-years/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29">‘rented’ </a>Mormon church’s exemption to defer taxes for 15 years</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d1d1d; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Mitt Romney’s opposition to the auto bailout has haunted him on the campaign trail, especially in Rust Belt states like Ohio. There, in September, the Obama campaign launched television ads blasting Romney’s November 2008 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d1d1d; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; padding: 0px 3px 0px 0px;">New York Times</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d1d1d; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> op-ed, “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt.” </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d1d1d; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">But Romney has done a good job of concealing, until now, the fact that he and his wife, Ann, personally gained at least $15.3 million from the bailout</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d1d1d; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">—and a few of Romney’s most important <a href="http://memspoliticalscrapbook.blogspot.com/2012/09/there-is-nothing-more-frightful-than.html#.UI1qchDA8lk"><b>Wall Street donors</b></a> made more than $4 billion. Their gains, and the Romneys’, were astronomical—more than 3,000 percent on their investment.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d1d1d; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">It all starts with Delphi Automotive, a former General Motors subsidiary whose auto parts remain essential to GM’s production lines. No bailout of GM—or Chrysler, for that matter—could have been successful without saving Delphi. So, in addition to making massive loans to automakers in 2009, the federal government sent, directly or indirectly, more than $12.9 billion to Delphi—and to the hedge funds that had gained control over it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">One of the hedge funds profiting from that bailout— $1.28 billion so far—is Elliott Management, directed by Paul Singer. According to </span><em style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; padding: 0px 3px 0px 0px;">The</em><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;"> </span><em style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; padding: 0px 3px 0px 0px;">Wall Street Journal</em><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">, Singer has given more to support GOP candidates—$2.3 million—than anyone else on Wall Street this election season. His personal giving is matched by that of his colleagues at Elliott; collectively, they have donated $3.4 million to help elect Republicans this season, while giving only $1,650 to Democrats. And Singer is influential with the GOP presidential candidate; he’s not only an informal adviser but, according to the </span><em style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; padding: 0px 3px 0px 0px;">Journal</em><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">, his support was critical in helping push Representative Paul Ryan onto the ticket.</span></div>
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<span property="dc:creator" style="font-family: inherit;">Singer, whom <em style="padding: 0px 3px 0px 0px;">Fortune</em> magazine calls a “passionate defender of the 1%,” has carved out a specialty investing in distressed firms and distressed nations, which he does by buying up their debt for pennies on the dollar and then demanding payment in full. This so-called “vulture investor” received $58 million on Peruvian debt that he snapped up for $11.4 million, and $90 million on Congolese debt that he bought for a mere $20 million. In the process, he’s built one of the largest private equity firms in the nation, and over decades he’s racked up an unusually high average return on investments of 14 percent.</span></div>
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<span property="dc:creator"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Delphi, once the Delco unit of General Motors, was spun off into a separate company in 1999. Alone, Delphi foundered, declaring bankruptcy in 2005, after which vulture hedge funds, led by Silver Point Capital, began to buy up the company’s old debt. Later, as the nation’s financial crisis accelerated, Singer’s Elliott bought Delphi debt, as did John Paulson & Co. John Paulson, like Singer, is a $1 million donor to Romney. Also investing was Third Point, run by Daniel Loeb, who was once an Obama supporter but who this summer hosted a $25,000-a-plate fundraiser for Romney and personally donated about $500,000 to the GOP.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As Delphi was in bankruptcy, making few payments, the bonds were junk, considered toxic by the banks holding them. The hedge funds were able to pick up the securities for a song; most of Elliott’s purchases cost just 20 cents on the dollar of their face value.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">By the end of June 2009, with the bailout negotiations in full swing, the hedge funds, under Singer’s lead, used their bonds to buy up a controlling interest in Delphi’s stock. According to SEC filings, they paid, on average, an equivalent of only 67 cents per share.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Just two years later, in November 2011, the Singer syndicate took Delphi public at $22 a share, turning an eye-popping profit of more than 3,000 percent. Singer’s fund investors scored a gain of $904 million, all courtesy of the US taxpayer. But that’s not all. In the year since Delphi began trading publicly, its stock has soared 45 percent. Loeb’s gains so far for Third Point: $390 million. The gains for Silver Point, headed by two Goldman Sachs alums: $894 million. John Paulson’s fund, which has already sold half its holdings, has a $2.6 billion gain. And Singer’s funds and partners, combining what they’ve sold and what they hold, have $1.29 billion in profits, about forty-four times their original investment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Yet without taking billions in taxpayer bailout funds—and slashing worker pensions—the hedge funds’ investment in Delphi would not have been worth a single dollar, according to calculations by GM and the US Treasury.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Altogether, in direct and indirect payouts, the government padded these investors’ profits handsomely. The Treasury allowed GM to give Delphi at least $2.8 billion of funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to keep Delphi in business. GM also forgave $2.5 billion in debt owed to it by Delphi, and $2 billion due from Singer and company upon Delphi’s exit from Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The money GM forgave was effectively owed to the Treasury, which had by then become the majority owner of GM as a result of the bailout. Then there was the big one: the government’s Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation took over paying all of Delphi’s retiree pensions. The cost to the taxpayer: $5.6 billion. The bottom line: the hedge funds’ paydays were made possible by a generous donation of $12.9 billion from US taxpayers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One of President Obama’s first acts in office, in February 2009, was to form the Auto Task Force with the goal of saving GM, Chrysler, their suppliers and, most important, auto industry jobs. Crucial to the plan was saving Delphi, which then employed more than 25,000 union workers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Obama hired Steven Rattner, himself a millionaire hedge fund manager, to head the task force that would negotiate with the troubled firms and their creditors to avoid the collapse of the entire industry. In Rattner’s memoir of the affair, <em style="padding: 0px 3px 0px 0px;">Overhaul</em>, he describes a closed-door meeting held in March 2009 to resolve Delphi’s fate. He writes that Delphi, now in the possession of its hedge fund creditors, told the Treasury and GM to hand over $350 million immediately, “because if you don’t, we’ll shut you down.” His explanation was corroborated by Delphi’s chief financial officer, John Sheehan, who said in a sworn deposition in July 2009 that the hedge fund debt holders backed up their threat with “an analysis of the cost to GM if Delphi were unwilling or unable to provide supply to GM,” forcing a “shutdown.” It would take “years and tens of billions” for GM to replace Delphi’s parts. At that bleak moment, GM had neither. The automaker had left the inventory of its steering column and other key components in Delphi’s hands. If Delphi laid siege to GM’s parts supply, the bailout would fail and GM would have to be liquidated or sold off—as would another Delphi dependent, Chrysler.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Rattner could not believe that Delphi’s management—now effectively under the hedge funders’ control—would “want to be perceived as holding GM hostage at such a precarious economic moment.” One <em style="padding: 0px 3px 0px 0px;">Wall Street Journal</em>analyst suggested that Singer was treating Delphi “like a third world country.” Rattner likened the subsidies demanded by Delphi’s debt holders to “extortion demands by the Barbary pirates.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Of the twenty-nine Delphi plants operating in the United States when the hedge funders began buying up control, only four remain, with not a single union production worker. Romney’s “job creators” did create jobs—in China, where Delphi now produces the parts used by GM and other major automakers here and abroad. Delphi is now incorporated overseas, leaving the company with 5,000 employees in the United States (versus almost 100,000 abroad).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Another outcome may have been possible. In June 2009, the Treasury and GM announced a bailout deal they’d crafted over months with the cooperation of the United Auto Workers. GM would take back control of Delphi via a joint venture with Platinum Equity, a buyout firm led by billionaire Tom Gores, a self-described “Michigan man” who grew up in the shadow of Delphi’s Flint plant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The final Platinum plan, according to Delphi’s official statement posted on Marketwire in June 2009, lists plants in fourteen locations slated for closing, which would have left several of Delphi’s plants still in business, still unionized—and still in the United States. Crucially, the deal would have returned key Delphi operations, including the production of steering columns, directly to GM.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The hedge funders stunned Delphi by refusing to accept the Platinum plan. Harshly criticizing it as a “sweetheart deal,” they demanded 45 cents on the dollar for the debt bonds they had bought on the cheap—more than double what the Treasury-brokered Platinum deal would pay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Then the Singer-led debt holders swooped in. After the Platinum deal was announced, Elliott Management quietly tripled its holdings of Delphi bonds, purchased at just one-fifth of their face value. By joining forces with Silver Point, Paulson and Loeb, Singer now controlled Delphi’s fate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Gores, Delphi and UAW officials declined to respond to queries about the deal on the record, but the <a href="http://www.thenation.com/sites/default/files/user/17/Delphi%20CFO%20Sheehan%20Deposition.doc" style="color: #526a83;">sworn deposition</a> by Delphi CFO Sheehan (confidential then, but later posted on Scribd.com) lets us in on the tense negotiations culminating in a twenty-hour showdown between Delphi, GM, the UAW, the Auto Task Force and the US pension agency, on the one hand, and Singer’s hedge fund group, on the other. Delphi said it would dump the Platinum deal if the hedge funds would agree to terms that would take care of all stakeholders, including the following stipulation: “Agree on plan structure to maximize job preservation.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The hedge funders said no, since they had a billion-dollar ace up their sleeve. According to Sheehan, Singer and company’s controlling interest allowed them to force the bankruptcy judge to hold an auction for all of Delphi’s stock. The debt holders outbid the Michigan Man’s team, offering $3.5 billion. But it wasn’t $3.5 billion in cash: under the rules of Chapter 11 bankruptcy, debtors-in-possession may bid the face value of their bonds rather than their current market value, which at the time was significantly lower. Under the Platinum deal, Delphi would have had much more in real money for operations: $250 million in cash from Gores, another $250 million in credit, and $3.1 billion in “exit financing” from GM, all of it backed up by TARP. Still, under Chapter 11 rules, the Platinum bid was technically lower. And that’s how Singer’s funds—which included the Romneys’ investment—came to buy Delphi for the equivalent of only 67 cents a share.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Rattner and GM, embarrassingly outmaneuvered, tried to put a good face on it. As Rattner wrote in his memoir, “In truth we didn’t care who got Delphi as long as GM could extricate itself from the continual drain on its finances and assure itself of a reliable supply of parts.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Even before the hedge funds won their bid for Delphi’s stock, they were already squeezing the parts supplier and its workforce. In February 2009, Delphi, claiming a cash shortage, unilaterally terminated health insurance for its nonunion pensioners. But according to Rattner, the Treasury’s Task Force uncovered foggy accounting hiding the fact that the debt holders had deliberately withheld millions of dollars in cash sitting in Delphi accounts. Even after this discovery, the creditors still refused to release the funds.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">The savings to the hedge fund billionaires of dropping retiree insurance was peanuts—$70 million a year—compared with the profits they later extracted from Delphi. But the harm to Delphi retirees was severe. Bruce Naylor of Kokomo, Indiana, had been forced into retirement at the age of 54 in 2006, when Delphi began to move its plants overseas. Naylor’s promised pension was slashed 40 percent, and his health insurance and life insurance were canceled. Though he had thirty-six years of experience under his belt as an engineer with GM and Delphi, he </span><span style="line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">couldn't</span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;"> find another job as an engineer—and he </span><span style="line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">doesn't</span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;"> know a single former co-worker who has found new employment in his or her field, either. Naylor ended up getting work at a local grocery store. That job gone, he now sells cars online for commission, bringing in one-fifth of what he earned before he was laid off from Delphi.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Even with his wife Judy’s income as a nurse, it </span><span style="line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">hasn't</span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;"> been enough: the Naylors just declared bankruptcy, and their home is in foreclosure.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After the hedge fund takeover of Delphi, the squeeze on workers intensified through attacks on their pensions. During its years of economic trouble, Delphi had been chronically shorting payments to its pension funds—and by July 2009, they were underfunded by $7 billion. That month, Singer’s hedge fund group won the bid for control of Delphi’s stock and made clear they would neither make up the shortfall nor pay any more US worker pensions. Checkmated by the hedge funders, the government’s Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation agreed to take over Delphi’s pension payments. The PBGC would eat the shortfall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">With Delphi’s new owners relieved of its healthcare and pension obligations, its debts to GM and its union contracts— and now loaded with subsidies from GM funded by TARP—the company’s market value rose from zero to approximately $10.5 billion today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But there was still a bit of unfinished business: President Obama needed to be blamed for the pension disaster. In a television ad airing in swing states since September, one retired Delphi manager says, “The Obama administration decided to terminate my pension, and I took a 40 percent reduction in my pension.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Another retiree, Mary Miller, says, “I really struggle to pay for the basics…. I would ask President Obama why I had no rights, and he had all the rights to take my pension away—and never ever look back and say, ‘Not only did I take it from Mary Miller, I took it from 20,000 other people.’”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">These people are real. But it’s clear that these former workers, now struggling to scrape by, were hardly in the position to put together $7 million in ad buys to publicize their plight. The ads were paid for by Let Freedom Ring, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit advocacy organization partially funded by Jack Templeton Jr., a billionaire evangelical whose foundation has sponsored lectures at the Manhattan Institute (the anti-union think tank whose board of directors includes not only Singer but Loeb). The ads also conveniently leave out the fact that the law sets specific ceilings on what the PBGC is allowed to pay retirees—regardless of what they were originally owed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In June 2011, Charles and David Koch hosted a group of multimillionaires at a retreat in Vail, Colorado. In secret recordings obtained by investigator Brad Friedman, the host, Charles Koch, thanks Singer and Templeton, among others, for each donating more than $1 million to the Koch brothers’ 2012 anti-Obama election war chest.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Of course, it </span><span style="line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">wasn't</span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;"> Obama who refused to pay the Delphi pensions; it was Paul Singer and the other hedge funds controlling Delphi. The salaried workers’ pensions were, after all, an obligation of Delphi’s owners, not the government. Delphi’s stockholders—the Romneys included—had one easy way to rectify the harm to these pensioners, much as GM did for its workers: just pay up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Making good on the full pensions for salaried workers would cost Delphi a one-time charge of less than $1 billion. This year, Delphi was flush with $1.4 billion in cash— meaning its owners could have made the pensioners whole and still cleared a profit. Instead, in May, Delphi chose to use most of those funds to take over auto parts plants in Asia at a cost of $972 million—purchased from Bain Capital.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That leaves one final question: Exactly how much did the Romneys make off the auto bailout? Queries to the campaign and the Romneys’ trustee have gone unanswered. And Romney has yet to disclose the crucial year of his tax returns, 2009. But whatever the tally, it was one sweet deal. The Romneys were invested with Elliott Management by the end of 2010, before Delphi was publicly traded. So, in effect, they got Delphi stock at Singer’s initial dirt-cheap price. When Delphi’s owners took the company public in November 2011, the Romneys were in—and they hit the jackpot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In <a href="http://www.thenation.com/resource/romney-federal-disclosure" style="color: #526a83;">their 2011 and 2012 Federal Financial Disclosure filing</a>, Ann Romney’s trust lists “more than $1 million” invested with Elliott. This is the description for all of her big investments—the minimal disclosure required by law. (Had Romney kept the holding in his own name, he would have had to reveal if his investment with Singer had made more than $50 million.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is reasonable to assume that Singer treated the Romneys the same as his other investors, with a third of their portfolio invested in Delphi by the time of the 2011 initial public offering. This means that with an investment of at least $1 million, their smallest possible gain when Delphi went public would have been $10.2 million, plus another $10.2 million for each million handed to Singer—all gains made possible by the auto bailout.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But that’s just the beginning. Since the November 2011 IPO, Delphi’s stock has roared upward, boosting the Romneys’ Delphi windfall from $10.2 million to $15.3 million for each million they invested with Singer.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">But what if the Romneys invested a bit more with Singer: let’s say a mere 3 percent of their reported net worth, or $7.5 million? (After all, ABC News reported—and Romney </span><span style="line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">didn't</span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;"> deny—that he invested “a huge chunk of his vast wealth” with Singer.) Then their take from the auto bailout so far would reach a stunning $115 million.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Romneys’ exact gain, however, remains nearly invisible—and untaxed—because Singer cashed out only a fragment of the windfall in 2011. And the Singer-led hedge funds have been able to keep almost all of Delphi’s profits untaxed by moving Delphi’s incorporation from Troy, Michigan, to the Isle of Jersey, a tax haven off the coast of France.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Romneys might insist that the funds were given to Singer, Mitt’s key donor, only through Ann’s blind trust. But as Mitt Romney said some years ago of Ted Kennedy, “The blind trust is an age-old ruse, if you will. Which is to say, you can always tell a blind trust what it can and cannot do.” Romney, who reminds us often that he was CEO of a hedge fund, can certainly read Elliott Management’s SEC statements, and he knows Ann’s trust is invested heavily in a fund whose No. 1 stake is with Delphi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nevertheless, even if the Romneys were blind to their initial investment in Elliott, they would have known by the beginning of 2010 that they had a massive position in Delphi and would make a fortune from the bailout and TARP funds. Delphi is not a minor investment for Singer; it is his main holding. To invest in Elliott is essentially a “Delphi play”: that is, investing with Singer means buying a piece of the auto bailout.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Mitt Romney may indeed have wanted to let Detroit die. But if the auto industry was going to be bailed out after all, the Romneys apparently </span><span style="line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">couldn't</span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;"> resist getting in on a piece of the action.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><em style="color: #1d1d1d; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; padding: 0px 3px 0px 0px;">This investigation was supported by the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute and by the Puffin Foundation. Elements of it appear in Palast’s new book, </em><span style="color: #1d1d1d; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps</span><em style="color: #1d1d1d; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; padding: 0px 3px 0px 0px;">(Seven Stories). Research assistance by Zach D. Roberts, Ari Paul, Nader Atassi and Eric Wuestewald.</em></span></div>
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Mem's Political Scrapbookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738137773635798081noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3842102628627832056.post-55222356868377215302012-10-27T08:50:00.001-05:002012-10-29T08:59:31.025-05:00Sometimes a picture say's it all!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Well for some of us it say's it all! For you who don't <a href="http://memspoliticalscrapbook.blogspot.com/2012/08/533-lies-in-30-weeks.html#.UIv1LBDA8lk"><b>get </b></a>it!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">How Did Things Get So </span><a href="http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/how-did-things-get-so-screwed-up/" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">Screwed</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> Up?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is another <a href="http://www.politicususa.com/mccain-confirms-romneys-desire-harvest-americans-indefinite-troop-presence.html">REMINDER</a> of who Mitt Romney is for those who don't seem to get it!</span>Mem's Political Scrapbookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738137773635798081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3842102628627832056.post-40711427744981133912012-10-26T15:03:00.000-05:002012-11-05T17:48:00.732-06:00Mitt Romney and Huge Number Of Republican Party Pal Around With This Guy!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">If this were President Obama PALLING around with an alleged serial RAPIST it would be all over the news! If we allow Romney to steal or buy this election then these are the men who will be dictating a woman's body, our health as well handing out vouchers to our parents and grandparents! </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Democrats are NOT Pro-Abortion! They ARE Pro-Choice. Romney may say he doesn't believe in "Choice" BUT he does believe in making money off of <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/romney-bain-abortion-stericycle-sec">Abortions!</a></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">(After reading this article come back to -How Mitt Romney Would <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/opinion/sunday/kristof-how-romney-would-treat-women.html?smid=tw-share">Treat</a> Women)</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mitt Romney’s BFF, Alleged Serial Rapist Greg Peterson, Commits Suicide While Out On Bail </span></b><span style="font-family: inherit;">by </span><a href="http://www.addictinginfo.org/" style="font-family: inherit;">Lorelei</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Greg Peterson–self-promoting glad-hander, best friend to a whole slough of Republican Big Name politicians, host of many GOP fundraisers in Utah, and vicious serial rapist–has decided to spare his victims the additional trauma of going through court proceedings, as he has apparently died in the same cabin in Heber, Utah where several of the rapes were said to have taken place. Of course, by choosing suicide, he also denied his victims their day in court.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After Peterson missed an appointment with his attorneys after being released on bail, Wasatch County, Utah sheriff’s officials were dispatched and found Peterson dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Peterson, 37, was charged by authorities this July and was facing 25 charges of assault, rape and kidnapping. He apparently met his victims on Facebook, at church functions, and on Mormon dating websites. (<a href="http://thumpandwhip.com/2012/07/19/greg-peterson%20%20-gop-party-animal/" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Greg Peterson, GOP Party Animal">Thump And Whip</a> claims that the charges were “nine counts of forcible sexual abuse, seven counts of rape, three counts of object rape, two counts of aggravated kidnapping, forcible sodomy, assault, burglary and sexual battery.” So, there’s that. Make of it what you will.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One Peterson Facebook invitation allegedly read: “<em>Tell guard at gate that u r guests of Greg Peterson’s Moose Lodge on Witts Lake. Doesn’t that make you feel special? It should.</em>”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ryan J. Reilly of TPM Muckraker <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/1%20%200/greg_peterson_suicide.php" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Utah GOP Fundraiser Accused Of Rape Commits Suicide ">reports</a> that four of the attacks are said to have taken place in March, July and December in 2011 and April 2012; the time a fifth attack took place has not been made clear. One victim, a (Mormon) church acquaintance, says Peterson <a href="http://top%206%20lies%20romney%20has%20told%20women%20in%20an%20election%20season%20full%20of%20whoppers/">forced her</a> inside his cabin after telling her he had a gun. Four of the victims testified that Peterson had fondled them over their clothing without their consent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">CNN <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/24/justice/utah-rape-suspect-suicide/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Utah man accused of date raping 4 women found dead of apparent suicide">adds</a>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Four separate times, prosecutors say, Gregory Peterson lured women under the pretext of a movie or lunch — and sexually assaulted them. He kept one captive in his mother’s house for several days, they said. He threatened to report another, whose visa had expired, for deportation, charging documents alleged. And in each case, authorities said, he forced the women to engage in sex acts by pointing to guns he possessed. [...]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The first woman, identified only as S.M., described meeting Peterson at a church event in March 2011 and agreeing to go to a movie with him. Instead of going to the theater, she said, he drove her to his cabin, assaulting her both on the drive and during the night. The woman said she was scared because there were weapons both in the car and in his cabin. Peterson drove her back to her car the next morning, she said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The other women said they met Peterson online. One said Peterson asked her to dinner in July 2011 but instead drove her to his cabin, sexually assaulting her on the way and through the night. She said he talked about her expired visa and threatened to deport her. Peterson then drove her to his mother’s house and kept her there for three days before driving her home and assaulting her again, she said. [...]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A bail bondsman found Peterson in his Wasatch County cabin Tuesday evening while checking on him because his ankle monitor signal was getting weak, Sheriff Todd Bonner said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Peterson claimed to have an MBA in Finance from Brigham Young University, and also claimed that he was a certified financial planner who owned an Orem-based wealth management company and an online trading website.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Was this taken during the Summer Games, perchance? Hmm. I also like how his Facebook avatar has Romney included in it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Republicans are busily trying to <a href="http://www.alternet.org/gender/why-right-wingers-cant-stop-saying-insane-things-about-women-and-rape">play down</a> Peterson’s connections with many prominent GOP politicians, one in particular: Mitt Romney.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">According to <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/19/1111779/-BREAKING-Top-GOP-fundraiser-arrested-for-rapes" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="BREAKING: Liar who claimed to be close Romney friend arrested for rapes">DailyKOS</a>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Peterson has billed himself online as a “close personal friend of the Romney family,” and posted video on Youtube of Romney speaking at a 2007 fundraiser at Romney’s home in Deer Valley. He contributed $2,300 to the Romney campaign that year. In addition, he posted several photos of himself and Romney on his Facebook page.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But Chaffetz, who said he has been at most of the Romney events in Utah over the last few years, said he never saw Peterson at any of them. “I seriously doubt” he is close with the Romneys, Chaffetz said. Peterson did attend a national call day in Las Vegas, where supporters were invited to come and make phone calls for the Romney campaign, Chaffetz said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh, would that be Republican Representative Jason Chaffetz? The one shown here at Peterson’s cabin taking a picture with Peterson?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Chaffetz (R-UT) may “doubt” that Peterson was “close” to the Romneys (R-Oligarchistan), but Mitt Romney and Peterson have socialized at several VIP GOP events and fundraisers–including the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/103389489740894/" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Rocky Mountain Conservatives Convention and Barbecue ">Rocky Mountain Conservatives Convention and Barbecue</a> held at his cabin–and Peterson had co-chaired a fundraiser specifically in honor of Romney as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Peterson on Facebook, promoting the Second Annual <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/103389489740894/" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Rocky Mountain Conservatives Convention and Barbecue ">Rocky Mountain Conservatives Convention and Barbecue</a>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: SENATORS MICHAEL S. LEE AND ORRIN HATCH, GOV. GARY HERBERT. Congressman Chaffetz, Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne, Mayor Mia Love, Mayor David Phillips, Kirkham Motorsports CEO David Kirkham, tons of Mayors, State legislators, and many others prominent Conservatives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Last year we mingled with Senator Mike Lee & Tim Bridgewater after a closely contested primary. We were also joined by Carl Wimmer of The Patrick Henry Caucus, Rep. Craig Frank, Rep. Curtis Oda, Rep. John Dougall, Megablogger now Rep. Holly Richardson, Cherilyn Eagar, Morgan Philpot, who nearly knocked off our nemesis Jim Matheson, the one and only Victor Shanti, and basically every other Conservative activist in Utah.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Attendee Julie Harmon posted 145 photos on <a href="http://highstylephoto.smugmug.com/Events/Conservatives-BBQ-1/17869119_G77BJN#!i=1366745695&k=cjGZcsK" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="2nd Annual Peterson fundraiser photos">SmugMug</a>, if you want to see how prominent Republicans partied down at the Rape Cabin with Peterson.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/19/1111779/-BREAKING-Top-GOP-fundraiser-arrested-for-rapes" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="BREAKING: Liar who claimed to be close Romney friend arrested for rapes">DailyKOS</a> also quotes this Tea Party website blurb about Peterson:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Greg Peterson, a close personal friend of the Romney family, discusses why liberty loving Latter-day Saints should support Mitt Romney for president. Greg expounds upon the fundamental principles Mitt will adhere to when making presidential decisions. Jeremy and JC question Greg on Mitt’s stance on key issues including government health care, income taxes, abortion, immigration, undeclared wars, the American empire, social security and the Federal Reserve.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/10/25/mitt-romneys-bff-alleged-serial-rapist-greg-peterson-commits-suicide-while-out-on-bail/greg-gop-rape-party-cabin1/" rel="attachment wp-att-76803" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-76803" height="236" src="http://www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/greg-GOP-rape-party-cabin1.jpg" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 564px; padding: 0px;" title="greg GOP-rape-party-cabin1" width="320" /></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ain’t no party like a GOP party, ’cause a GOP party’s got freaks! (…Say what?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The rush by Republican politicians to disavow any and all connection to or friendship with Peterson has been swift. Loop21′s Nadra Kareem Nittle <a href="http://loop21.com/blogs/right-radar/gop-fundraiser-greg-peterson-faces-multiple-rape-charges" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="GOP Fundraiser Greg Peterson Faces Multiple Rape Charges">reports</a>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Utah lawmakers are distancing themselves from the fundraiser. A spokesman for Sen. Mike Lee, Brian Phillips, is downplaying the idea that the legislator is a friend of Peterson after photos and videos of the men at Peterson’s cabin turned up online on Thursday. Phillips said the relationship between the two men is professional. Moreover, he says that the senator and his staff are concerned for the victims of Peterson’s alleged attacks.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/10/25/mitt-romneys-bff-alleged-serial-rapist-greg-peterson-commits-suicide-while-out-on-bail/greg-peterson-court/" rel="attachment wp-att-76805" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-76805" height="225" src="http://www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/greg-peterson-court.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 5px auto; max-width: 576px;" title="greg peterson court" width="225" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Another Loop21 <a href="http://loop21.com/blogs/right-radar/gop-fundraiser-greg-peterson-faces-multiple-rape-charges" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Gregory Nathan Peterson Dead: Well-Connected GOP Activist Facing Rape Charges Found In Utah Cabin ">article</a> adds:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Prominent Utah politicians Peterson hosted include U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch, Gov. Gary Herbert, U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz and others. [...] While Peterson has been involved in state politics and events, Utah Republican Chairman Thomas Wright has said he never held a leadership role or raised or donated money for the state party. Some considered Peterson a self-styled Tea Party operative.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">KSL Utah’s Dennis Romboy <a href="http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=21331919" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Romney, Utah politicians denounce accused rapist's actions">reported</a>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On his Facebook page, Peterson claim[ed] to be good friends with the Romney family and that he attended Brigham Young University with Josh Romney, the presidential candidate’s youngest son. He posted photos of himself with Mitt Romney and Josh Romney on Facebook. [...]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In local Republican circles, Peterson apparently played the role of a wealthy conservative politico who claimed to have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for GOP candidates. [...]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Utah Tea Party leader and former gubernatorial candidate David Kirkham described Peterson as “exuberant” in his political opinions. Peterson wrote a blog called the Conservative Moose and was prolific on Facebook. ”He was kind of a familiar face to many people,” Kirkham said. [...]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Peterson billed this past May’s conference as “the CPAC of the West,” a reference to the national Conservative Political Action Committee that draws thousands of activists to Washington, D.C., each year. The agenda included GOP attorney general candidates John Swallow and Sean Reyes in a Lincoln/Douglas-style debate at Wasatch High School. A barbecue featuring wild elk and a golf- into-the-lake contest followed at the cabin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Utah’s Democratic Party Chairman Jim Dabakis said that he hoped that Republicans would denounce the sexual assaults and ban Peterson from future events. Since Peterson has made the choice for them, the GOP will now not have to choose between the riskiness of being seen associating with Peterson (and his legal problems) again and turning down someone offering to raise a truckload of money for them. I’m sure it would have been a hard choice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I assume that none of Peterson’s victims got pregnant from the assaults, because otherwise Peterson’s GOP buddies would be all up in the women’s personal business telling them that they should see Peterson’s attacks and the resulting pregnancies as “gifts from God,” and then they’d try to prevent them from getting abortions if they wanted them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Also, as Thump And Whip writer <strong>toma</strong> <a href="http://thumpandwhip.com/2012/07/19/greg-peterson-gop-party-animal/" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Greg Peterson, GOP Party Animal">says</a>: “If a vicious violent lunatic rapist had been photographed with Obama, Pelosi and Franks, the conservative blogosphere would wallpaper the internet. But this is just another Republican. I think we’ve all grown used to the freaks being freaks.”</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/10/25/mitt-romneys-bff-alleged-serial-rapist-greg-peterson-commits-suicide-while-out-on-bail/greg-and-governor-gary-herbert/" rel="attachment wp-att-76799" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-76799" height="236" src="http://www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Greg-and-Governor-Gary-Herbert.jpg" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 564px; padding: 0px;" title="Greg and-Governor-Gary-Herbert" width="320" /></span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/10/25/mitt-romneys-bff-alleged-serial-rapist-greg-peterson-commits-suicide-while-out-on-bail/greg-peterson-and-senator-mike-lee/" rel="attachment wp-att-76807" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-76807" height="228" src="http://www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Greg-Peterson-and-Senator-Mike-lee.jpg" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 564px; padding: 0px;" title="Greg Peterson-and-Senator-Mike-lee" width="320" /></span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/10/25/mitt-romneys-bff-alleged-serial-rapist-greg-peterson-commits-suicide-while-out-on-bail/greg-peterson-on-the-left/" rel="attachment wp-att-76808" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Peterson with Mitt Romney" class="size-full wp-image-76808" height="238" src="http://www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/greg-peterson-on-the-left.jpg" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 564px; padding: 0px;" title="greg peterson-on-the-left" width="320" /></span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/10/25/mitt-romneys-bff-alleged-serial-rapist-greg-peterson-commits-suicide-while-out-on-bail/greg-mike-lee-gary-herbert/" rel="attachment wp-att-76804" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-76804" height="183" src="http://www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/greg-mike-lee-gary-herbert.jpg" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 564px; padding: 0px;" title="greg mike lee gary herbert" width="275" /></span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/10/25/mitt-romneys-bff-alleged-serial-rapist-greg-peterson-commits-suicide-while-out-on-bail/greg-and-sen-jim-de-mint/" rel="attachment wp-att-76798" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-76798" height="209" src="http://www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/greg-and-Sen-Jim-De-Mint.jpg" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 564px; padding: 0px;" title="greg and Sen Jim De Mint" width="241" /></span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/10/25/mitt-romneys-bff-alleged-serial-rapist-greg-peterson-commits-suicide-while-out-on-bail/greg-and-orrin-hatch/" rel="attachment wp-att-76795" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-76795" height="195" src="http://www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/greg-and-orrin-hatch.jpg" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 564px; padding: 0px;" title="greg and orrin hatch" width="259" /></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Peterson with Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), the senior United States Senator for Utah</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/10/25/mitt-romneys-bff-alleged-serial-rapist-greg-peterson-commits-suicide-while-out-on-bail/greg-and-mitt/" rel="attachment wp-att-76794" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-76794" height="170" src="http://www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/greg-and-mitt.jpg" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 564px; padding: 0px;" title="greg and mitt" width="256" /></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Romney and Peterson yet again, at Peterson’s cabin–note the change of clothes.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/10/25/mitt-romneys-bff-alleged-serial-rapist-greg-peterson-commits-suicide-while-out-on-bail/greg-and-mitt-3/" rel="attachment wp-att-76792" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Romney palling around with Peterson AGAIN" class="size-full wp-image-76792" height="219" src="http://www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/greg-and-mitt-3.jpg" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 564px; padding: 0px;" title="greg and mitt 3" width="230" /></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Romney palling around with Peterson AGAIN</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/10/25/mitt-romneys-bff-alleged-serial-rapist-greg-peterson-commits-suicide-while-out-on-bail/greg-and-mitt-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-76791" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-76791" height="262" src="http://www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/greg-and-mitt-2.jpg" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 564px; padding: 0px;" title="greg and mitt 2" width="192" /></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh, look. It’s another picture of Mitt Romney with his BFF Greg Peterson.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/10/25/mitt-romneys-bff-alleged-serial-rapist-greg-peterson-commits-suicide-while-out-on-bail/greg-cabin-mia-love/" rel="attachment wp-att-76802" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-76802" height="183" src="http://www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/greg-cabin-mia-love.jpg" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 564px; padding: 0px;" title="greg cabin mia love" width="275" /></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sarasota Springs, Utah Mayor Mia Love, 4th Congressional District candidate, giving a speech at Peterson’s cabin</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/10/25/mitt-romneys-bff-alleged-serial-rapist-greg-peterson-commits-suicide-while-out-on-bail/greg-cabin-love-and-herbert/" rel="attachment wp-att-76801" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" class=" wp-image-76801 " height="228" src="http://www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/greg-cabin-love-and-herbert.jpg" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 564px; padding: 0px;" title="greg cabin love and herbert" width="292" /></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mayor Mia Love with Gov. Gary Herbert at Peterson’s cabin</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/10/25/mitt-romneys-bff-alleged-serial-rapist-greg-peterson-commits-suicide-while-out-on-bail/greg-and-mia/" rel="attachment wp-att-76789" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" class=" wp-image-76789 " height="271" src="http://www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/greg-and-mia.jpg" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 564px; padding: 0px;" title="greg and mia" width="286" /></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mia Love with Scott Peterson and some blurry dude I can’t ID, because original photo was tiny.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/10/25/mitt-romneys-bff-alleged-serial-rapist-greg-peterson-commits-suicide-while-out-on-bail/greg-and-carl-wimmer/" rel="attachment wp-att-76784" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" class=" wp-image-76784 " height="228" src="http://www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/greg-and-carl-wimmer.jpg" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 564px; padding: 0px;" title="greg and carl wimmer" width="292" /></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Peterson with Carl Wimmer, former state representative</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/10/25/mitt-romneys-bff-alleged-serial-rapist-greg-peterson-commits-suicide-while-out-on-bail/greg-and-marco-rubio/" rel="attachment wp-att-76788" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" class=" wp-image-76788 " height="338" src="http://www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/greg-and-Marco-Rubio.jpg" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 564px; padding: 0px;" title="greg and Marco Rubio" width="312" /></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Greg with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/10/25/mitt-romneys-bff-alleged-serial-rapist-greg-peterson-commits-suicide-while-out-on-bail/greg-and-ron-paul/" rel="attachment wp-att-76796" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Peterson with Ron Paul" class="size-full wp-image-76796" height="194" src="http://www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/greg-and-ron-paul.jpg" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 564px; padding: 0px;" title="greg and ron paul" width="259" /></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Peterson with Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Some interesting info about Peterson’s Republican buddies and their views on rape and abortion:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/house/Jason_Chaffetz_Abortion.htm" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Jason Chaffetz on abortion">Rep. Jason Chaffetz</a>: “I believe all human life is sacred. I support overturning Roe v. Wade to allow states the right to set their own abortion policies. Utah should have the right to ban abortions.”</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Voted YES on banning federal health coverage that includes abortion.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Chaffetz signed H.R.5939, a bill to prohibit taxpayer-funded abortions and to provide for conscience protections, and for other purposes.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Chaffetz signed No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Chaffetz co-sponsored Sanctity of Human Life Act: “personhood” begins at conception.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Chaffetz co-sponsored Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act, which would prohibit funding for groups like Planned Parenthood.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Chaffetz signed Taxpayer Conscience Protection Act, a bill to require States to report information on Medicaid payments to abortion providers.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/TX/Ron_Paul.htm" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Ron Paul on abortion">Rep. Ron Paul</a>:</span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Morning-after pill same as birth control pill; not immoral. (Feb 2012)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Right to privacy is explicit, but not for contraception. (Jan 2012)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">More laws don’t solve problems on abortion. (Sep 2011)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Efforts to fund abortion ranks among stupidest policies. (Apr 2011)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Deregulate the adoption market. (Apr 2011)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Abortion laws should be a state-level choice. (Apr 2011)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Abortion causes inconsistent moral basis for value of life. (Apr 2011)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Day-after pill allows individual moral choice. (Apr 2011)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Abortion is murder. (Apr 2008)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Roe v. Wade decision was harmful to the Constitution. (Apr 2008)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Define life at conception in law, as scientific statement. (Feb 2008)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Protecting the life of the unborn is protecting liberty. (Feb 2008)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Get the federal government out of abortion decision. (Nov 2007)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Delivered 4000 babies; & assuredly life begins at conception. (Sep 2007)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Nominate only judges who refuse to legislate from the bench. (Sep 2007)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Save “snowflake babies”: no experiments on frozen embryos. (Sep 2007)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">No tax funding for organizations that promote abortion. (Sep 2007)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Embryonic stem cell programs not constitutionally authorized. (May 2007)</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Marco_Rubio.htm" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Marco Rubio on abortion">Sen. Marco Rubio</a>:</span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Pro-life, but understands that woman’s right is the law. (Jun 2012)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Expand birth control exemption for faith-based organizations. (Jun 2012)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Opposed Sotomayor nomination based on her Roe support. (Jun 2012)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">No right to privacy, that resulted in the Roe v. Wade. (Feb 2010)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Require ultrasounds before performing abortions. (Feb 2010)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Voted against funding stem cell research. (Apr 2006)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Note.asp?q=CC-q1" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Opposes</a> both federal abortion funding & judicial activism. (Aug 2010)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Note.asp?q=CC-q1a" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Supports</a> prohibiting human embryonic stem cell research. (Aug 2010)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Note.asp?q=FF-q1" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Supports</a> giving legal protection to unborn children. (Sep 2010)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Prohibit federal funding for abortion. (May 2011)</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Governor/Gary_Herbert_Abortion.htm" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Gary Herbert on Abortion">Gov. Gary Herbert</a>: Don’t criminalize woman seeking illegal forms of abortion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Last May, a 17-year-old girl, seven months pregnant, paid a man $150 to beat her up in hopes of inducing a miscarriage. The fetus survived the assault and was born in August. The attacker went to jail. And the girl became the center of a bill that would formally criminalize what she did, that is, to seek an illegal abortion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Gov. Herbert has said he agrees generally with the bills goals but is still studying the particulars: Utah would still allow legal abortions performed by a doctor. But it would go further than any other state in mapping out when a woman is criminally liable for trying to end a pregnancy through other means or self-infliction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Critics say legislation inspired by an unusual, perhaps even freakish criminal case, could open up a vast frontier around the question of intent and responsibility and give local prosecutors huge new powers to inquire about a woman’s intentions toward her unborn child. [Gov. Herbert vetoed the bill on March 8, 2010].</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Orrin_Hatch.htm#Abortion" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Orrin Hatch on abortion">Sen. Orrin Hatch</a>:</span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Benefit of saving lives outweighs destroying stem cells. (Nov 2010)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Both pro-life and pro-stem cell research. (Jul 2001)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Abortions cause a societal insensitivity to life. (Dec 1999)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">No litmus tests: no one issue should define appointments. (Jul 1999)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Appoint conservative judges without litmus tests. (Jun 1999)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Voted YES on restricting UN funding for population control policies. (Mar 2009)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Voted YES on defining unborn child as eligible for SCHIP. (Mar 2008)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Voted YES on prohibiting minors crossing state lines for abortion. (Mar 2008)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Voted YES on barring HHS grants to organizations that perform abortions. (Oct 2007)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Voted YES on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines. (Apr 2007)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Voted YES on notifying parents of minors who get out-of-state abortions. (Jul 2006)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Voted NO on $100M to reduce teen pregnancy by education & contraceptives. (Mar 2005)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Voted YES on criminal penalty for harming unborn fetus during other crime. (Mar 2004)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Voted YES on banning partial birth abortions except for maternal life. (Mar 2003)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Voted YES on maintaining ban on Military Base Abortions. (Jun 2000)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Voted YES on banning partial birth abortions. (Oct 1999)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Voted YES on banning human cloning. (Feb 1998)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rated 0% by <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Note-NARAL.asp" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">NARAL</a>, indicating a pro-life voting record. (Dec 2003)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Expand embryonic stem cell research. (Jun 2004)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rated 75% by the <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Note-NRLC.asp" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">NRLC</a>, indicating a mixed record on abortion. (Dec 2006)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Prohibit transporting minors across state lines for abortion. (Jan 2008)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Prohibit federal funding for abortion. (May 2011)</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Jim_DeMint.htm" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Jim DeMint on abortion">Sen. Jim DeMint</a>:</span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">No funding for Planned Parenthood; protect the unborn. (Jan 2012)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Voted YES on restricting UN funding for population control policies. (Mar 2009)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Voted YES on defining unborn child as eligible for SCHIP. (Mar 2008)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Voted YES on prohibiting minors crossing state lines for abortion. (Mar 2008)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Voted YES on barring HHS grants to organizations that perform abortions. (Oct 2007)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Voted NO on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines. (Apr 2007)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Voted YES on notifying parents of minors who get out-of-state abortions. (Jul 2006)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Voted NO on $100M to reduce teen pregnancy by education & contraceptives. (Mar 2005)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Voted YES on making it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime. (Feb 2004)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Voted YES on banning partial-birth abortion except to save mother’s life. (Oct 2003)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Voted YES on forbidding human cloning for reproduction & medical research. (Feb 2003)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Voted YES on funding for health providers who don’t provide abortion info. (Sep 2002)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Voted YES on banning Family Planning funding in US aid abroad. (May 2001)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Voted YES on federal crime to harm fetus while committing other crimes. (Apr 2001)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Voted YES on banning partial-birth abortions. (Apr 2000)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Voted YES on barring transporting minors to get an abortion. (Jun 1999)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rated 0% by <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Note-NARAL.asp" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">NARAL</a>, indicating a pro-life voting record. (Dec 2003)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rated 100% by the <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Note-NRLC.asp" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">NRLC</a>, indicating a pro-life stance. (Dec 2006)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Apply 14th amendment protections to pre-born fetuses. (Jun 2008)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Note.asp?q=CC-q1" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Opposes</a> both federal abortion funding & judicial activism. (Aug 2010)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Note.asp?q=CC-q1a" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Supports</a> prohibiting human embryonic stem cell research. (Aug 2010)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Prohibit federal funding for abortion. (May 2011)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Declare preborn as persons under 14th amendment. (Feb 2009)</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Mike_Lee.htm#Abortion" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Mike Lee on abortion">Sen. Mike Lee</a>:</span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Return to states the power to protect unborn human life. (Jul 2010)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Prohibit federal funding for abortion. (May 2011)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Mitt_Romney.htm" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Mitt Romney on abortion">Former Gov. Mitt Romney</a>:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Courts added tax-paid abortions to RomneyCare; not me. (Jan 2012)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">I had no litmus test for appointing judges, but I’m pro-life. (Jan 2012)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Scientifically, life begins at conception. (Jan 2012)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">1990: As church leader, urged at-risk mom against abortion. (Jan 2012)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">1994: Supported abortion rights but personally opposed. (Jan 2012)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Firmly pro-life; including Court nominations. (Jun 2011)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Abortion decision should recognize TWO lives involved. (Mar 2010)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">OpEd: baroque circumlocutions on evolving abortion stance. (Aug 2009)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Supreme Court had said feds should stay out of abortion. (Dec 2007)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">I took action as governor to preserve the sanctity of life. (Dec 2007)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">No punishment for women who have partial birth abortions. (Dec 2007)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Two-step process: overturn Roe; then change hearts & minds. (Sep 2007)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Firmly in the “legal but rare” camp. (Aug 2007)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Following in Reagan’s footsteps in converting to pro-life. (Aug 2007)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Absolute good day for America when Roe v. Wade is repealed. (May 2007)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Personally pro-life, but government should not intrude. (May 2007)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Was effectively pro-choice until cloning changed his opinion. (May 2007)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Breach of Constitution for justices to adjust Constitution. (Mar 2007)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now firmly pro-life, despite 2002 tolerance for abortion. (Dec 2006)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anti-abortion views have “evolved & deepened” while governor. (Jul 2005)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Personally against abortion, but pro-choice as governor. (Mar 2002)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">For safe, legal abortion since relative’s death from illegal. (Oct 1994)<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3842102628627832056" name="Contraception" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none;"></a></span><h3 style="color: #222222; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Every woman in America should have access to contraceptives. (Oct 2012)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Church employee birth control violates religious conscience. (Feb 2012)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">MA churches can choose to not provide morning-after pills. (Feb 2012)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">2002: No to new abortion law; yes to emergency contraception. (Jan 2012)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">States shouldn’t ban contraception; and no state wants to. (Jan 2012)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">1993: Morning-after pill could make abortions obsolete. (Nov 2011)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Contraception is a personal choice; but advocate abstinence. (Nov 2011)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Vetoed emergency contraception for rape victims. (Jul 2005)<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3842102628627832056" name="Stem_Cells" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none;"></a></span><h3 style="color: #222222; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stem-cell cloning breaches an ethical boundary. (Jan 2012)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">2004: Stem cell research ok, if privately funded. (Nov 2011)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Outlaw embryo farming, but allow using surplus embryos. (Dec 2007)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Altered nuclear transfer instead of embryonic stem cells. (May 2007)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Stem cell research lofty goals don’t justify destroying life. (Mar 2007)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Vetoed stem cell research bill. (May 2005)<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3842102628627832056" name="Voting_Record" style="color: #cc0000; outline: none;"></a></span><h3 style="color: #222222; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Would be delighted to sign federal ban on all abortions. (Nov 2007)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">2005: Vetoed availability without Rx of morning-after pill. (Aug 2007)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Would welcome overturning Roe v. Wade. (Mar 2007)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Committed to not change law on abortion as Gov., and did not. (Mar 2007)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Opposes Roe v Wade, but won’t tamper with abortion laws. (Dec 2006)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Endorsed legalization of RU-486. (Mar 2002)</span></li>
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Mem's Political Scrapbookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738137773635798081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3842102628627832056.post-29196766327730801152012-10-24T13:12:00.000-05:002012-10-24T14:07:59.836-05:00What Donald Trump Really Meant To Say....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>....I will give Mitt Romney five million if he will show ten years of tax returns and his IQ! Oh never mind...I think it's been obvious for some time that The Donald suffers from Bad Hair and this is his Brain on Romnisa!-Mem</b><br />
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Donald Trump’s Big October Surprise Blows Up in Mitt Romney’s Face By: <a href="http://www.politicususa.com/">Jason Easley</a> October 24th, 2012<br />
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It turns out that Donald Trump’s big October surprise was to make Mitt Romney look like a moron by offering President Obama $5 million if he will release his college transcripts and passport application.<br />
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Remember that whole Moderate Mitt image that the Romney campaign is trying to sell? Donald Trump just trashed that.<br />
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Here is the video of Trump’s big “surprise”:<br />
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Trump said, “If Barack Obama opens up and gives his college records and applications, and if he gives his passport applications and records, I will give to a charity of his choice, inner city children in Chicago, American Cancer Society, AIDS research, a check immediately for five million dollars. The check will be given within one hour after he releases all of the records so stated. He’ll be doing a great service for the country if he does this. If he releases these records, it will end the questions and indeed the anger of many Americans. They’ll know something about their president. The president will become transparent like other presidents.”
David Plouffe of the Obama campaign responded by reminding everyone that Mitt Romney loves him some Donald Trump. Plouffe said Trump is,”Mitt Romney’s biggest supporter. He (Romney) owns everything he says.”<br />
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This is really the last thing that the Romney campaign needed today. Romney happily climbed into bed with birther Trump, and he has been coming back to bite them in backside ever since. In May, hours before a joint fundraiser together, <a href="http://www.politicususa.com/hours-fundraiser-romney-donald-trump-full-birther-insane.html">Trump went on CNBC and went full on frothing birther insane.</a> Trump said, “This is something that came out last week; a lot of people are questioning his birth certificate, questioning the authenticity of his birth certificate. I’ve been known as being a very smart guy for a long time. I don’t consider myself birther or not birther but there are some major questions here and the press just refuses to cover it.”<br />
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The Obama campaign is dead on. Mitt Romney now owns every dumb statement and publicity stunt that comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth. Romney cut <a href="http://www.politicususa.com/donald-trump-romney-obama.html">a deal with Trump</a> during the Republican primaries, and has been paying for it ever since.<br />
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Donald Trump wouldn’t be politically relevant at all if Mitt Romney wouldn’t have elevated him by making such a public show of accepting his endorsement. Trump is listed and referred to by the media as a Romney surrogate. He has a direct connection to the campaign. Both Mitt and Ann Romney has spoken highly of him.<br />
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Can you imagine what would happen if an Obama surrogate called on Mitt Romney to prove that he isn’t a polygamist? The conservative bluster would echo for days.<br />
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Mitt Romney is already losing this election. Instead of talking about their candidate, the Romney campaign now has to stand aside and see one of their precious few remaining campaigning days left go up in smoke, as one of their surrogates sabotages their efforts.<br />
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<b><a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/romney-ryan-medicaid-urban-institute.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29">Tid Bit</a></b> For The Day!-Mem Mem's Political Scrapbookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04738137773635798081noreply@blogger.com0