mitt romney & sheldon adelson

[spanone]

from nytimes:

(on releasing his tax returns)


Romney’s rationale is that material like this could be used by the Obama campaign to discredit him. In an interview published a few weeks ago, Romney told National Review:

In the political environment that exists today, the opposition research of the Obama campaign is looking for anything they can use to distract from the failure of the president to reignite our economy. And I’m simply not enthusiastic about giving them hundreds or thousands of more pages to pick through, distort, and lie about.

So what was this ever-so-guarded, moralistic (“I want to clean up the moral pollution on TV and the Internet”) politician doing at a $50,000-a-couple fundraiser in Jerusalem with Sheldon G. Adelson — proprietor of one of the largest, if not the largest, gambling and casino operations in the world — seated in the honored position at his side?

Adelson and his company are under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice on allegations of foreign bribery. In addition, the United States Attorney’s office in Los Angeles is investigating whether Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands Corp. failed to alert authorities to millions of dollars transferred to casinos in violation of money-laundering laws, the Wall Street Journal reported on August 4.

http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/06/embracing-sheldon-adelson/

[rocktivity]

1. "Romney’s rationale is that material like this could be used by the Obama campaign

to discredit him..."

that's what's known as POLITICS, Mitt! Or is your REAL problem that that your income tax returns DOES contain things that COULD be used to discredit him?


rocktivity

[Berlum]

2. RepubliCreeps of a feather are flocking together

Know Willard by the company he keeps - deeply immersed in the so-called "Republicon Family Values" and completely disdainful of standard, morally correct American values.

[lsewpershad]

3. When will he be charged

or once again the gazillionaire will get away with paying a fine while a poor person will end up in jail for stealing a dollars. Only in America the exceptional.

[spanone]

4. well, he hopes the 'new president' will be beholding to him and his millions of dollars in donations