Romney: "The Shadow Years"
The elevation of the shadow years http://blog.thephoenix.com/BLOGS/talkingpolitics/archive/2012/07/02/romney-s-shadow-bain-years.aspx issue will also increase pressure significantly for Romney to release additional personal financial information, including the tax returns that would indicate his income from Bain Capital sources during that time.
And finally, the shadow years controversy, in my opinion, just might finally bring some national scrutiny to the issue I've been asking about for many years: the conflicts of interest and other questions surrounding his deal-making at the Salt Lake City Olympics during those very years.
I included a section about that in this 2007 article. http://thephoenix.com/Boston/news/45260-mitts-equity-army/ The gist is that those deals have never been disclosed -- Romney exempted them from his pledge for full transparency at the Olympics -- and many of them were made with companies that Bain Capital had relationships with, or later made deals with. Those negotiations look very, very sketchy even if he had really severed ties with Bain, but stink to high heaven if he was really still running the company.
http://blog.thephoenix.com/BLOGS/talkingpolitics/archive/2012/07/12/the-bain-shadow-years-loom-larger.aspx
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What's not to love? Mitt will fit right in with the kids of the people who tried to overthrow FDR.
PS: Thank you for the detailed reports on the Olympics scam-wa. Incredible to those who are new to the subject. Business as usual for the plutocracy.
A great guy at the right club.
Bilderberg 2012: were Mitt Romney and Bill Gates there?
Another conference over. Charlie Skelton talks to some of the 800 activists outside the gates to find out what they learned
A banner welcomes Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to the 2012 Bilderberg conference. Photograph: Hannah Borno for the Guardian
What a Bilderberg it's been. Big names, big money, big decisions, big crowds. Somewhere around 800 activists outside the gates (up from about a dozen in 2009), and inside? Well, here's what we learned.
A Mitt Romney attendance?
Four eyewitnesses on the hotel staff told me Willard Mitt Romney was here at Bilderberg 2012. My four eyewitnesses place him inside. That's one more than Woodward and Bernstein used. Romney's office initially refused to confirm or deny his attendance as Bilderberg is "not public". His people later said it wasn't him.
So, was he being crowned, or singing for his supper? Will Mitt Romney follow in the august footsteps of Clinton, Cameron and Blair to have attended Bilderberg and then shortly become leader? Four years ago, Senator Obama shook off his press detail and nipped (many think) into Bilderberg. This exact same hotel.
Did Romney have to get down on one knee in front of David Rockefeller? This sounds flippant, but it's a serious question: has Bilderberg switched allegiance? Are they going to toss away Obama after just one term?
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-news-blog/2012/jun/05/bilderberg-2012-chantilly-occupy
This subject of Willard's rise to the top of the rat heap, seemingly out of thin air, should be of interest to those wondering about how well-off the Well-Off always seem to be.
