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Subscribe to RSSJust one month after he was named Mitt Romney's top energy adviser, Oklahoma billionaire Harold Hamm contributed $985,000 to the top pro-Romney Super PAC -- a donation that was the second largest the group collected in April, according to a new campaign disclosure filing today.
The cash infusion from Hamm, the chairman and CEO of Continental Resources -- a firm that touts itself as "America's Oil Champion" -- is a new example of how big Super PAC donors can make their policy views heard by the campaigns they are supporting.
Hamm, whose company is the largest leaseholder of the Bakken, the giant shale formation in North Dakota, has been an outspoken critic of President Obama's energy policy, including his decision to postpone the Keystone pipeline and push legislation to curb tax breaks for oil exploration.
After meeting Obama at a White House event last July, Hamm complained the president "blew him off" after he tried to press him about the abundance of domestic oil supplies, according to a Business Week story last January. "It was like, 'if you’re in the oil and gas industry, you don't matter,'" Hamm was quoted as saying in the story headlined, "The Man Who Bought North Dakota."
On March 1, Romney -- during a campaign stop in Fargo, North Dakota -- announced that Hamm would serve as chairman of the candidate's "Energy Policy Advisory Group" charged with developing a new "pro-jobs, pro-market, pro-American" energy agenda, according to a statement put out by the campaign that day. Hamm said in the statement he was backing Romney in part because he was "acutely aware" of "how outrageously [Obama] has attacked energy producers in particular."
On April 3, Hamm made his $985,000 contribution to Restore Our Future, the pro-Romney Super PAC, the group reported today. That accounts for a little more than one-fifth of the $4.6 million the group raised last month.
Hamm had already contributed $2,500 -- the legal maximum for the primary season -- to the Romney campaign last October, as well as $61,600 to the Republican National Committee in two installments in last September and this February.
But the huge new donation to the Romney Super PAC -- which can accept unlimited contributions -- could potentially raise questions about the connections between his donations and his role in shaping campaign policies that might benefit his company. So far, the campaign has not publicly disclosed the other names of the energy advisory group, making it impossible to determine whether they have also given money to the Super PAC or the campaign.
“We haven’t announced it yet,” Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul said in an email when asked the names of other members of the campaign energy advisory group. A spokeswoman for Continental Resources, Hamm's company, declined to answer any questions about Hamm's role in the Romney campaign, referring a reporter to the campaign itself.
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"But the huge new donation to the Romney Super PAC -- which can accept unlimited contributions -- could potentially raise questions about the connections between his donations and his role in shaping campaign policies that might benefit his company."
Ya think?????
But remember now, kiddies....just because Romney named him chairman of his "Energy Policy Advisory Group" charged with developing a new "pro-jobs, pro-market, pro-American" energy agenda" does NOT mean that Romney is in any way co-ordinating things with any of his Super PACs.
Right?
The American way … liberty and justice for all … the wealthy !
Yeah, we should just let the unsuccessful run the country. Oh, wait, we already have that . . . , and we're seeing how that's working out.
Dennis,
I really didn't hear the democrats complaining about the 1 million Bill Maher gave to the Obama Super PAC. I am assuming that your remark includes Maher and others giving big donations to both Super PACs.
Hi Sarge,
Yes it includes all Parties and candidates.
Get rid of all the money from politics.
Dennis, in addition to your comment we could add something from the BurgerKing people:
GOP governing platform; Have it Your Way. Hell if you invest enough we'll find a top post in the administration for you.
Dennis, I couldn't agree more.
You won't hear complaining from them about the $40,000/plate from the Hollywood "elite" either. Maybe the liberals will protest by not buying petroleum products and simply walking to work. That I would like to see !
Living in the land of the wink and the nod, must be nice.
Not only are the drilling for the dirtiest oil in North Dakota, ask about their new by-product, urine bombs, they're "the bomb".
And hey sfcret, Maher have an advisory position in the administration? Nope, thought not.
Rombot.Has.Nothing.
According to JS1 the wealthy are more equal than the rest of us Americans.
She also implies that unsuccessful = uninformed.
foreplinger, before you all start throwing out concerns over advisory positions, you need to remember where Jeff Immelt works and who he advises.
Let's see..... A new group of colonies were formed that provided great wealth for those in power. I'd say King George was doing a damn good job. Man! What were we thinking?
To be an Obama fan, you really have to ignore a lot of things to support Barry. Bush/Obama tax polices? The same. Republicans are the so-called party of the rich, except Obama seems to fund raiseeven more from the rich. 4.6% unemployment was unacceptable to the Libs when Bush was president, but 8+% unemployment is just fine for Obama. Bush's unfunded spending was awful, but Obama increased it by 3x, and Libs just mindlessly blame it on Bush.
Oh, but Obama is just soooo good looking. And he can sing too.
No not at all Dennis. Obama is unsuccessful because he hasn't a clue how to compromise or how to make a deal. Since his party lost the House, he hasn't been able to negotiate one thing with Congress. Bush II could get things done with a Democratic Congress. Clinton got things done with a GOP Congress. Bush I got things done with a Democratic Congress. Reagan certainly was able to work with the Democrats. Not Obama. And why would you think he could, he's never done so in his life.
Hey let's pick on Gov. Romney, never mind that President Obama is doing the same thing with PACs that he was not going to use. Oh! I forgot the also filp/flop evolved on this.
Is going to be a big one and I hope who ever wins wins by at least 2% or we are going to be counting votes for a year.
WCA,
[you need to remember where Jeff Immelt works and who he advises.]
And you have to remember that he is a staunch Republican!!!
Money is not speech. Money is content-neutral. It is only the direction of the money by the donor that constitutes speech.
Money is nothing but an amplifier or megaphone.
Like the speakers on your automobile sound system, or music played by your neighbors late at night, volume levels can and should be regulated.
In a truly free society, all speakers should be permitted the same volume level.
If not, then we have achieved a society such as Orwell imagined, where everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others.
He called it "Animal Farm."
We call it Citizens United.
JAS1,
[Obama is unsuccessful because he hasn't a clue how to compromise]
John Boehner 2010 – I do not compromise.
Mitch McConnell 2009 – Our #1 priority is to make this President a 1 term President.
Too funny Snuffy!
It was only the other day you were bragging the GNOP won the house in 2010 on the premise of stopping anything the President proposed.
Make up your freakin mind will you?
Obama 2010 (as soon as the GOP took the House) - I'm running against Congress
Obama 2009 - The Republicans need to get in the back seat!
Obama 2008 (To Congressional Republicans) - "I won"
Outstanding post Anna Molly! That is the perfect analogy.
You do know the difference, don't you?
I know who is attending the $40K/plate fund-raiser.
The SuperPAC doesn't have to tell me who's funding them.
Jas....Can you possibly come up with any thing better than the usual 6th grade argument: "I'm rubber you're glue everything you say bounces off me and sticks onto you?" Jeez you are so transparent. Even amateur psych majors know what projection is!
Oh and Bill Maher is not asking for a place at the table or access to the president on POLICY issues.
Dennis, Columbus, Ohio --
Add to that list Richard Mourdock, the Republican nominee for the Senate from Indiana, who believes that "compromise" is a dirty word.
LoL I didn't read this before posting above, but it figures. Just call her "Squealer."
I wish she could have met my mother, who never worked outside the home after I was three and would never be labeled a success in JoAnna's calculus, and yet she read more, and watched more, and was better informed than most of the idiots who currently populate Congress.
If you want "informed," don't look at anyone's pocketbook. That sort of thinking gave us Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachman, George W. Bush, James Imhofe, and Herman Cain. After watching him the other day on the TV, I'd have to add Richard Mourdock to that list.
I'd like to see JoAnna say that to my face.
No, you're thinking of Hilary Rosan.
Now you're thinking of Ann Romney.
Nice job making the case for stay at home moms Annie dearest.
JAS1,
[Obama 2010 (as soon as the GOP took the House) - I'm running against Congress] He never said that {period}
[Obama 2009 - The Republicans need to get in the back seat!] He said while referring to getting the economic “car” out of the ditch.
[Obama 2008 (To Congressional Republicans) - "I won"] It was 2009 and out of context
That Dog Won’t Hunt
@ JoAnna --
Your Hillary Rosen remark is clearly misplaced. You've obviously misread my post about my mother working outside the home. She didn't, and she sacrificed all her life without Cadillacs and homes in La Jolla because of it. Even though she only had one child, I'm confident that she worked a darn sight harder at home than Ann Romney EVER did and made do with a lot less.
And yet, for all her advantages, Ann Romney couldn't even hope to play in the same league as my mother.
But count on you to demean her, just like you demean everything and everyone.
Obama 01/20/2013: "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
(Assuming Justice Roberts remembers the words this time......)
Dennis - That Dog Won’t Hunt
But Obama...........nahhh, that's to easy.
America, particularly the wealthy, thanks you, Chief Justice John Roberts for opening the floodgates to add another nail to American democracy's coffin.
jim, there's a difference between donating money directly to a campaign through a $40,000 a plate fundraiser than there is in one person donating $1 million to a SuperPAC. Clooney's $40,000 a plate requires full disclosure of donors and amounts. Romney's campaign has had very high-priced fund-raising dinners as well. There is no accountability for SuperPAC cash, no limit, no requirement for disclosure.
As for Bill Maher, he donated $1 M to the Obama SuperPAC for the simple reason that democrats and President Obama don't have the advantage of Exxon Mobil, Foster Friess, Joe Ricketts, Sheldon Adelson and the dozen or so other multi-billionaires. Every person whether left, right or center needs to be asking if we want the kind of government that money buys. It was bad enough before, now it is outrageous. Our votes nullify the millions of one person but only if we stand up and fight for what this country was founded to be--a nation where all people are equal, where everyone has a vote and where the wealthy have no greater voice than everyone else. Citizens United blew a giant hole in democracy.
Concern Citizen, President Obama did not "filp (as you put it)/flop" on this matter. The rules of campaign finance changed since 2008 and it changed via Citizens United which declared Corporations are people and the rich can spend as much as they like secretly or openly no questions asked. Citizens United determined that the powerful and wealthy have a bigger voice than everyone else. Citizens United made it IMPOSSIBLE for President Obama and democrats to compete; the rules were changed and I do not expect one side to not play by the same rules. It is not a flip/flop to change when the rules change. Apparently, that notion escapes your thought process.
No, it's right on the mark. Her words alone show how she would despise your mother. And it's "Hilary".
You've got some kind of a weird phopia if you think I'm demeaning your mother. More power to her if that is what she chose. Talk to your liberal friend Rosan about demeaning women, she seems to be an expert at it.
And your hatred of Ann Romeny is noted. You really need to get off your hatred of people you disgree with, it's rotting what little soul you have remaining.
Oh poor little rich boy. It's a good thing billionaires are helping him out. Such charity warms the heart, especially in this time when so many are suffering...
But seriously, the idea that multinational corporations with shareholders from all over the world can now bring foreign influence on our elections is as anti-american and unpatriotic as it gets. Why the rightwingers seem unaffected by this is beyond me. But even the rogue cranky billionaires out there -- why should they have more influence compared to your "one man one vote?"
Guys - why is anyone trying facts and intelligence with JAS. I haven't been on these posts for that long but I already know that logic, facts and intelligence have no place in discussions with JAS. She just spouts her usual nonsense over and over again. No facts, just stupidity. She's going to be hell to deal with after Obama wins again in November!
Obama/Biden 2012
To those of you making the argument that the Hollywood fundraiser and the Bill Maher contribution are the same as Harold Hamm's contribution, there are two differences:
1) Obama didn't give Maher or any of the Hollywood contributors a position in his administration
2) Obama is not making a decision on an issue which creates wealth for Maher or the Hollywood crowd (Keystone Pipeline, anyone?)
At least now we know why the Keystone Pipeline is the number one priority on Romney's "Day 1" agenda - who cares about creating jobs when you can create additional wealth for the 1%!
I think not. If anyone knew about the REAL economic struggles of a REAL stay-home mom, it would be my mother. Hilary Rosen was right -- Ann Romney has absolutely nothing to bring to the table on that subject.
Once again, I think not. Answering your posts is what's doing that. But that ends here. And this time, I mean it. You bring absolutely nothing to MY table.
As for the rest of my life, I feel good.
Either way, she's all yours now. Enjoy.
PRICELESS!
Says someone who can't even see her own reflection in the mirror...
Anna - my guess is JAS doesn't bring anything to any table. I think her presence would suck the air out of any room she enters. Just sayin....
Anna - she's not mine. Trust me. There are bigger, smarter fish to fry!
I'll never give up on you sweetie! You're just too much fun!!
I'm not sure about smarter Seeking, but, Snuffy is known as FR's very own large mouth ass!
This guy is about jobs, good paying jobs, cheaper oil and more jobs.
This is good for Americans.
The defeat of Barrack Hussien Obama will be terribly decisive
TO: JoAnnaSmith1 who wrote:
And let me guess, there is NO WAY that you are able to see how or why the 2 Republican Oil Men you put in office last time invaded and overthew the 2nd largest oil rich nation on the planet, and then billed American Workers, right?
You have no clue of how we got lied into THAT war, not to mention how or why we were attached on 9/11 by the 1st largest oil rich nation on the planet.
But, you're not able to "see" how ANY of THAT worked out, right?
Geez!
Obama/Biden 2012
sfcret & jim - I know that other people have already pointed this out to you but perhaps you need it drummed into your head - the difference between Bill Maher and "Hollywood Elite" donating to the Obama campaign is that none of them are seeking or will be picked to be top advisers.
JoAnna Smith - You just want to make people jump down your throat every time you post. You are a shrill, little harpy who doesn't know when to put a lid on it.
Nothing new here, just ask Oprah and Rev Wright to appear with Mr. Obama again. LOL
Seems Mr. Obama has a fancy about "blowing off" his voter base. Just another "campaign contributor" thrown under the ObamaWagon. It sure is getting crowded with litter on that Obama Street.
Flyesity with her foul mouth comments (see # 1.37) has nothing to contribute to these vines.
How often does JAS1 goes to a restaurant and hear "bitter table for one"?
Deja vu! Let's see... Under President George Herbert Walker Bush, Richard Chaney was Secretary of Defense. After President G.H.W. Bush was succeeded by President Clinton, Richard Chaney became Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Halliburton (an energy co. & defense contractor) from about 1995-2000. Then Richard Chaney went back to Washington, this time as President George W. Bush's Vice President. During the Bush/Cheney presidency, Cheney held private advisory meetings with executives from big oil companies, and these meetings shaped policy decisions of the Bush/Cheney presidency. Also during the Bush/Cheney presidency military policy shifted to subcontract out large portions of war efforts to private companies; Halliburton was one such company, and it received a number of "no-bid" contracts, that is contracts that no other company could apply for.
Fast forward to today-- Now Mitt Romney is hooking up with another Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of an oil company, a billionaire, who is "advising" Romney on energy policy, and who has already donated $1 Million to the Romney election effort.
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Yeah, we should just let the unsuccessful run the country. Oh, wait, we already have that . . . , and we're seeing how that's working out."
GB has been out of office for almost 4 years now. But yeah it didn't work out too well did it?
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This guy is about jobs, good paying jobs, cheaper oil and more jobs." There's a fool born every minute. If you ever think Oil is going to get cheaper (as it runs out) you're one of those fools.
Fascinating - someone on CNN said Bill Maher is a surrogate because he gave a million dollars to the Obama campaign - and the little twit - what's her name didn't say and what does the billionaires who are trying to buy this election call themselves if not surrogates?
We need thinking people not dumb talking heads - jeez - I knew the retort - Duh
CNN is a sham - a once good news outlet is "STUPID"
sfcret
When it's time to scratch the backs of those who donated the million who do you think has more to gain? A comedian or an oil company CEO?
What the hell is Bill Maher going to benefit from this? A different time slot on HBO? Better jokes?
Ed-1118000
You got it right. While the supply is up and the demand is down, the prices of oil is up - quite the opposite of what the market normally dictates. While the Republicans warship free market, and private oil industry, they blame Obama for high gas prices. This is an example of eating the cake and having it, too. They want it both ways.
JAS!,
Please show me how Ann Romney is like an average American mother. Please show me how Ann Romney's "worries" compare to a mother that has to pay medical expenses, school expenses, clothing expenses, food expenses, and so on.
Although she may have been an excellent mother, she is NOTHING like most mothers in this country.
Now before you accuse me of being jealous of Ann Romney, I will beat you to it. Yes, I would love to have a cleaning staff of 5 to help out with my everyday chores but the reality is that this is not the reality for most of us -you included - so comparing Ann Romney to the 99% of mothers is just ridiculous.
That's one more vote for RMoney. Heck with that rich tax thing,or the economy. It's RMoney that's important. He has the best friends, money can buy.
Wealthy Republican douche bags and wealthy Democratic douche bags still at it, with their respective blind faith followers willing to lick the bottom of their shoes. Every day is the same day on First Read!
Bayllie - I guess we could establish a new department called the Department of Edgy Humor and make Bill Maher the head of the department. Geeze - the ignorance of some of these folks would be funny if it weren't so sad.
kimH-1330542
Good idea, then Bill Maher could influence the president to pass regulations (or eliminate them) so that all comedians of this country can rake in record profits and get subsidies.
baylie - I would love to see Maher actually influence the Government. Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert, too. I'm tired of being mad and frustrated by the far right all the time.
First, kill all of the super pacs. The influence you have on our government should not depend upon how many million dollars in disposable income you have. Our stacked SCOTUS has made a mockery of our democracy.
The best court money can buy.
Or the worst.
I just hope that President Obama can replace at least 2 of the radical right ones in his next term.
It is painfully obvious which two justices need to be retired. Scalia and Thomas need to retire. Their SCOTUS careers have been all about sticking it to progressives rather than an exercise in justice. Scalia is in the pocket of industry and Thomas has been trying to prove how the detractors who fought so hard against him in the Senate were right.
You folks are funny.
So will the SCOTUS be OK when and only when every case goes the way you want it to go?
Funny, funny people...........
Wayne - "Need to be Retired" - Just exactly what do you mean by this Wayne'O?
Wayne, well said and well said twice!
For 30 years, conservatives have been yelping about "activist" judges when the court rules against their ideas so it's quite amusing to read conservatives pointing their finger at liberals for doing the same.
Wayne - I couldn't agree more. I'd love to see the campaigns limited to 3 months and $10 million. No Super PACS, no outside money - a flat $10 million. Candidates would actually have to discuss the FACTS - no garbage.
But, since the GOP bought the SCOTUS, that's not going to happen!
Thanks Jody and Seeking Sanity,
It has been more than 30 years that republicans have been railing against progressive judges. I can still remember all of the "impeach Earl Warren" graffiti out there when I was a kid. How dare he desegregate the public schools? There is the difference. Liberal judges look out for the good of the people, while conservative judges look out for the welfare of the 1%, the very people who don't need the help of government.
WCA,
Not funny. Destroying democracy isn't funny, and that is what the likes of Scalia and Thomas are doing. You have a very odd sense of humor.
Correction, the current occupant of the White House has made a mockery of our economy! Our Constitution and Democracy are doing fine as long as Barry leaves them alone! If you're really concerned about our democracy, check out HR 347 signed into law by Barry on May 12th!
miked-332794 -
I did as you suggested, and according to the official Clerk of the House of Representatives' website, HR 347 was passed in the Senate by unanimous consent and in the House by a vote of 388-3. And the President actually signed it into law on March 8th, not May 12th:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HR00347:@@@R
If you're going to accuse the President of interfering with the Constitution and/or democracy, perhaps you could try getting your facts straight first?
Miked,
Someone has asked the question, "What's the difference between a resolution and a bill?"
It's easy. Resolutions are essentially meaningless.
In other words in this case it allows action but does NOT require it as a law would.
http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/articles/031108.htm
Let it rain...
Harold is looking for love in all the wrong places!
Hey let's pick on Gov. Romney, never mind that President Obama is doing the same thing with PACs that he was not going to use. Oh! I forgot the also filp/flop evolved on this.
Is going to be a big one and I hope who ever wins wins by at least 2% or we are going to be counting votes for a year.
Hey, Feisty -
Sorry, but when I see "Oklahoma" in the headline, I just start thinking Rodgers & Hammerstein!
(With apologies to both):
O-O-O-O-Oklahoma! Where the cash comes sweeping down the plain;
Where the rich elite help Mitt compete,
And this Hamm guy's buying some campaign!
O-O-O-O-Oklahoma! Every day a couple million more;
"It's my Super PAC - I don't know jack!
So there's nothing to be sorry for!"
Who cares about issues and facts?
Our elections belong to the PACs!
So when we sa-a-a-a-y Yeeow!
Aye-yippee-oh-i ayyyyyyy!
We're only sayin'
Just pay us back in November -
You'll remember.....okay?
If the folks on the right truly think that the President is going to raise more money in Super PACs than is Romney, I'd propose that we switch the funds after all the money is raised. You'd think they'd go for a deal like that EXCEPT that no one believes that the Democrats will raise the kind of money the Republicans will. A real false equivalency if they do.
JoAnne----***standing ovation**** Love your Super PAC song! I'll be humming it all evening!
The President and the DNC are expected to raise more money than Gov. Romney and the RNC but …
Between the campaigns, the Party Committees, PAC's and Super PAC's Mitt Romney and his backers are expected to outspend President Obama and his supporters by two to one.
I love it!
O-O-O-O-Oklahoma! Where the cash comes sweeping down the plain;
Where the rich elite help Mitt compete,
And this Hamm guy's buying some campaign!
JoAnne, oh, that's a good one! Now that song will be going through my mind all evening long.
Concern Citizen, you said that already and BTW it's not "filp" no matter how many times you repeat it.
Ya got me on that one JoAnne!
Most excellent! ☺
It must be noticed that Harold Hamm is CEO of an oil company. Instead of going foreward to alternative clean, safe, home grown sources of energy while we transition from carbon based energy to other forms Hamm is trying to buy influence the candidate to favor the oil industry.
I bet you run your computer with a windmill, right Adler?
No, JoAnnaSmith ... he runs it from those solar panels purchased from Solyndra BEFORE they went belly up and gave out those bonuses. I wonder ... did Obama received big bucks in campaign contributions from the leaders of Solyndra ? Wow ! If he did not, that certainly WAS a failed investment for him ! LOL !!
Actually my computer is run on the APS power grid which is Nuclear. No problem with that. Then again one of the reasons Solyndra went TU was because of Chinese dumping> Then again as a typical connie you think the Pres should waved his magic wand and automatically raised tariffs all on his own.
Hamm is trying to buy influence the candidate to favor the oil industry.
Thank You! Finally, someone addresses the most important aspect of his donation to Romney. If today's Republicans had been in charge in the late 1800's, old Thomas Edison would have been dealing with electric light-deniers.
But Amy if Mr. Hamm is handsome and can sing it's all good.
Right?
But Amy if Mr. Hamm is handsome and can sing it's all good.
No, it takes more than that, he has to kill terrorists too AND protect the environment. Boy, you really don't know what women want, do you?
President Obama and his Commerce Department last week announced a tariff on Chinese solar panels because of illegal trade practices, etc. Obama and his Commerce did the same thing on tires and steel. Now George W. Bush never did that and I doubt the all tough-talk and no action Mitt Romney would have the courage to stand firm against illegal Chinese practices because Romney couldn't stand up to Rush Limbaugh or Brian Fischer to name two.
Good one, Amy!
I have to admit I still haven't figured out what women want.........but I keep trying!
Obama is sure getting tough with the Chinese. So much so that they now can by-pass Wall Street and get better rates for the bonds they purchase that are funding the Obama spending spree. But what are friends for, right?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/21/us-usa-treasuries-china-idUSBRE84K11720120521
sfcret,
Bill Mahr didn't get himself appointed to an advisory com, who will do all they can to line their pockets with even MORE money, getting rid of regulations and keeping what they do to our environment a secret. This is NO better than when Chaney had his little closed door policy meeting with only energy execs in attendance (including the Enron gang). It SHOULD be illegal, but it isn't. Rombot will screw each and every one of us in the end folks, leaving us with corporations that will be SO out of control, there won't be anything we can do about it.
It does not matter so much where the money is going or where it came from, it is like a cancer that has eaten the ethics and integrity out of American politics and we must stop the auctioning of America to the highest bidder, lest we will all go down together with this good ship America
It is becoming more apparent that those in support of Romney are in support of a plutocratic form of rule. It would seem that some long for a type American royalty where the ability to acquire wealth at any cost is revered.
It astonishes me that so many Tea Party members, while not wealthy seem to worship those who are. In all the dealings of Bain what action did they take to better working conditions or environment for the employees of the companies they acquired. Admittedly, some of the companies were beyond help and dissolution or sale was the proper move but certainly, not all were beyond restructuring and saving. I would ask those most devoted to Romney: What past action has Romney initiated that indicates that he has placed the value of the human resource over that of the capital resource? And don't you think that past behavior and attitude is a good indicator of future behavior and attitude?
To my way of thinking an elected official serves the needs of all the people in their town, district, state or country, not their wealth...... the people.
Obama and George Clooney or Romney and Harold Hamm, just wondering which combination would create more jobs for the U.S.?
In answer to your question Gem: President Obama without Clooney will create more jobs than Romney and Hamm.
It was a rhetorical question. But ok, how will George Clooney create jobs?
By creating those highly trained and highly paid ticket collector and popcorn making engineering jobs at our local theaters?
But according to you dear Snuffy - anyone who doesn't have a job is a lazy, low-life, parasite who sucks off the Gubment teat!
Now you want to mock those who go to work & make popcorn & sell tickets?
You really should think about time time off babe... You won't make it to November at the rate you're going!
German...That would be George Clooney..All those actors, location people, grips, electricians, sound engineers, editors, set builders, carpenters, computer programers, marketers, designers movie theater owners and their employees, not to mention the "stimulus" to local economies when his company is on location...In point of fact the entertainment biz is considered for the most part recession proof. That said..The only record of Mr. Romney's we have is that his state was 47th outa 50 in job creation. HEIL!
AMC theaters???? Try reading World news sometime torpedo.
Ok so AMC was sold to the Chinese...Your point??????
I just heard Romney was sold to some rich guy in Oklahoma.......
Hollywood is doing so well for the state of California
Jobs going overseas most likely.
And you don't see the Libs complaining when the 1%-ers in the entertainmnet industry make $20 million a movie while the rest of the workers make a tiny fraction of that amount. Hollywood needs its own "Occupy" maybe?
Dreamworks is setting up shop in China. I love how obama and his entertainment buddies keep jobs here.
GermanGem-
"That billionaire" is free to expand his business and create more jobs, no one is stopping him.
Apparently you think he deserves more "freedom" and "rights" than the rest of us, and his "free speech" is worth more just because he is a billionaire. He doesn't like the rules and regulations as they are so he buys a president?
"..and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." - Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
The Romney rewrite: "government of the people, by the WEALTHY people, for the WEALTHY people..."
GermanGem, and don't forget all those movie goers create jobs for the ticket takers, the concession workers, the theater janitors, popcorn growers, candy and soda manufacturing workers to name a few.
Clooney can have another $40,000 a plate fund raiser, this time for the California government.
JAS,
Who was running California the last few years? I believe it was the former Republican role-model Arnold Schwarzennegger.
But, but , but, Arnie couldn't get any of his programs through because he had a Democratic legislature. And Arnie had to deal with all the courts stacked with Liberals. And Arnie proposed many compromises with the Democrats only to have them say they just wanted him out of office.
Sound familiar?
See what Brown is doing? Cutting spending, laying people off. No one left to tax. Austerity.
Speaking of role models, how's Johnny Edwards day going?
All George Clooney ever did was fly around and fire people, he didn't create any jobs. Watch "Up in the Air".
TNSEVOL - Schwartzanegger was a Sheep in Wolfs clothing. He was married to Maria SHRIVER of the KENNEDY clan, and SHE called the shots, not Ah-nold.
I'm just waiting for the time that someone will realize that SuperPacs are not only unpatriotic, but that they could be detrimental to the very fiber of our democracy.
How long will it be before the likes of Iran or North Korea backs a candidate with about a Billion dollars to get someone elected that would favor their agendas?
nomoresameo,
That is just what President Obama said a while back. "I will not use SuperPacs".
But of course that was before he evolved. Another flip/flop. You have to do what you have to do.
Concern Citizen, ONE more time--President Obama said he would not accept PAC or lobbyist money before the Citizens' United decision. The rules change but apparently you expect only one side to play by the new rules and the other to play at a disadvantage.
nomoresameo, since Super PACs do not have to disclose their donors how are we to know Iran, North Korea and China are not already contributing to candidates through prop or multi-national businesses ?
Take the corporate world, unions and all special interest groups out of American politics, individual participation only !!!
America was once a great nation where Republicans and Democrats agreed that money is not speech. Everyone agreed, that of money is speech, than America would become a 3rd world country that was owned by the wealthy.
Along came 5 Republicans on the Supreme Court that decided money is speech.
Now, America is the land where the wealthy make even more money. Billionaires spend a few hundred million buying elections where the politicians they bought give them even more tax breaks.
The middle class ends up paying for tax breaks to millionaires (Romney $250 million) and billionaires (Koch brothers and many more). These bought politicians like Romney take more and more away from us so that only millionaires and billionaires will be able to retire.
The rightwing lunatics want to equate a billionaire oil executive giving money to Romney with Hollywood actors and actresses giving money to the President. The one GLARING difference here is that the billionaire expects something in return.
The Supreme Court is a joke. It's as biased as anything, and they know it. Sure, corporations are people. Right, Mitt?
agree, Hollywood expects nothing, and thats what they got, oh wait, correction- they're getting a new tax shelter from obama in what used to be burma.
how dare that billionaire expect to expand his business and create more jobs, the nerve!
You think that's why the billionaire contributed all that money? To create jobs? Another rightwing joke, just like SCOTUS.
Sadly, the SCOTUS is a vital branch of government that has been highjacked. Let's not throw out the baby with the washwater. Let's just take the needed steps to bring reasonable representatives to congress that will introduce and pass legislation that protects the integrity of the electoral process.
obama is the joke of the century
Dee, North Dakota has the lowest unemployment rate in the country at 3%. I'd say he created a lot of jobs already.
GermanGem - I'd say Romney was the joke of the century but he isn't even funny - just pathetic! At least President Obama can TELL a joke!
Hollywood and California. Do the math.
and the GNOP including Romney are bigger jokes er jerks....
GermanGem-
"That billionaire" is free to expand his business and create more jobs, no one is stopping him.
Apparently you think he deserves more "freedom" and "rights" than the rest of us, and his "free speech" is worth more just because he is a billionaire. He doesn't like the rules and regulations as they are so he buys a president?
"..and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." - Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
The Romney rewrite: "government of the people, by the WEALTHY people, for the WEALTHY people..."
Sorry for the duplicate post.....
Don't you just love Joanna Smith - she or him is here day in and day out
Okay - it - what have you ever done to make this country greater? Have you ever volunteered for anything?
Have you gone to the hospitals as a volunteer? Have you made phone calls as I have received today to raise awareness money for diabetes in children - or have you even tried to get out the vote?
No Joanna - you are one of those people who are do nothings but sit there and complain
Once you put your boots on the ground - I will listen to you until then you are nothing but a fool that knows nothing and spouts nothing
I venture to guess you have never volunteered for anything - so until then STFUP
Its probably already happened, but if not, its just a matter of time before we will be able to directly relate back an SuperPac owner to the Congressman or Senator that they have bought and paid for.
Then we will have a Congressman/Senator bought and paid for by someone with enough money to legally buy a slice of Washington DC and influence laws.
And I think to myself..what a wonderful world <sigh>
Not only do I love your comment Feisty but please credit Eric Clapton with the song lyrics. Nice work!
Thank You!
You're correct - my bad! ☺
This prostitution that the SCOTUS has approved of is now just starting to show (give) her head. She is a shameless wench that will sell herself off to the highest bidder. And since these politicians have no shame in accepting monies from anyone. Foreign countries pro and con to America will surely start getting involved. After all American politics is open to the highest bidder. Only "We The People", stand in the way of these soul for hire representative that are in elected offices that we Americans put them in...
Go figure, then go vote...
Don't put a whole lotta stock in "We the People", Alex. That great right wing propaganda machine called FOX News has successfully brainwashed tens of millions of otherwise intelligent and/or educated Americans into a frothing frenzy against "liberals". There are many regulars on the 'Vine that have apparently succumbed to the FOX garbage.
Until people start realizing that they are being snowed under with overexposure to propaganda, they will dutifully continue on their hateful ways. Me? I'm not particularly optimistic.
Good News - Russell - the drugster - alias cyst on the behind to keep him out of Viet Nam is losing readership - 30 to 40% across the country - Red and Blue States
I believe calling a woman a slut because she advocated for contraceptives not for herself but for a friend for female problems has hit a note
I hope so!
On sale now: Mitt Romney to the highest bidders.
Obama has set his sales price really high also.
Sorry Sallie - What did you want him to do? Sit idly by and be overwhelmed
Sallie - I had two boys - if I sent them into say a hockey match - with no skates - no armor - no head gear tio protect them - what would you call me?
A FOOL!
When liberals complain about "money" in elections, they do not mean the $800 million donated by unions, do they?
On sale now: Democrats want to trash the First Amendment for what they perceive is an advantage in one election.
Let government regulators run elections, and dont allow individuals to spend their money to further their political beliefs .....what possibly could go wrong with that?
Bob-
So those with the most money should be allowed to "further their beliefs" further than the rest of us?
I don't see how the right to Free Speech means your speech is worth more than mine because you have more money.
By the way, I don't think unions should be allowed to spend freely either. There are a few differences, though. Their leadership is at least elected so if the members don't agree with the message they present they have some recourse. Unions also have a list of members, we know who they are.
Looks like the Big Boys of Big Oil are stepping up to the plate to help fund Romney's candidacy to get their piece of the action when he gets into office. Romney did NOT create wealth, he only Extracted Existing wealth, there is a HUGE difference. But Romney is extracting a huge amount from those who would benefit the most should he get into office. Money talks, and feces walks, and these guys want a front row seat at Romney's inaugural. To all those planning to vote for other than Obama, remember Romney's in cue and he got there because those voting for him held their noses when doing so. Adding to this discourse is the negative and bad blood between the TEA party and Republicans. Then there is the Women Health issue that will bring a new multitude to the voting booth. Immigrants of Mexican heritage, who have been here for over five to ten years and have deep roots here will get those legal to vote. The unions have committed to back the current resident of the White House and many independents will cross over or stay in Obama camp. And lastly, there are those who have been thinking deeply and assessing the Current House of Representatives and their repeated and confrontational attitude towards the president. They just might bolt to the president's side. The Independents have also been watching and assessing the culture and attitude of the TEA controlled House, which has a lower rating then the president and they might leave the dark side and vote With Obama. The eight or so states are in play as mentioned, but changes can occur with any miscue. Every one get involved and voice your opinion, register to vote and vote. Then get out the vote.
Hey, Feisty and friends! Do you remember this guy? ^ Proudwillie White ? I remember his ban as Willie White and Happy and a few other names! See you on the Ban/Suspension Lists Willie! ;-)
Rudy Gonzeles - why not look who his contributors are:
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Posted on May 15, 2012 by blackwaterdog
From The Truth Team:
A closer look at Romney's donors
reveals a group of wealthy individuals with less-than-reputable records. Quite
a few have been on the wrong side of the law, others have made profits at the
expense of so many Americans, and still others are donating to help ensure
Romney puts beneficial policies in place for them. Here's a look at just a few
of the people Romney has relied on:
Donors who
benefit from betting against America
to Romney's presidential ambitions through Super PAC and direct campaign
donations. As a partner at Blackstone, Schorr closed a deal in 2007 to
outsource the services of seven U.S. companies to a firm in India, boosting
that firm's profits by $220 million and making millionaires of the Indian
management team. In 2006, he arranged a buyout of a Colorado travel
reservations company that led to 841 layoffs while Blackstone and its partners
recouped the billions of dollars they invested in less than a year.
co-chairman of Romney's finance operation in Missouri and, together, have
donated $220,000 to Romney's presidential ambitions. They also control the
Harbour Group investment firm which bragged about buying
an automotive accessories manufacturing company in Kansas in 1997 and moving
production to Mexico. In 2002, the Harbour group's Mexico operation decided to
outsource to China because China was "offering incentives and making it easy to
open operations there." The Chinese government awarded Sam Fox the Marco Polo
Award for "his company's role in China's economic development and his
humanitarian contributions to that country."
Romney's Florida finance team and has bundled over $140,000 for the Romney
campaign. He also lobbied on behalf of Lender Processing Services, a
"foreclosure mill" that paid him to lobby on legislation aimed at preventing
lenders from "making loans that borrowers would have difficulty repaying." The
government has reprimanded Lender
Processing Services "for unsound practices related to residential
mortgage loan serving and foreclosure processing."
Special-interest
donors
Romney's stances on social and
economic issues, like his long-standing alliance with Big Oil, attracts the
contributions of high-dollar donors who are interested in pursuing a specific
agenda. Here are just a few of special-interest donors that Romney is taking
money from:
Louis Moore Bacon donated $500,000 to the Restore Our Future Super PAC. Bacon
makes his profit off of oil, first making a huge profit from successfully
betting that gas prices would rise before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1989.
Bacon's firm, Moore Capital, was fined $25 million for attempting
to manipulate certain commodity futures markets.
new bundlers who raised more than $25,000 in one month for Romney's campaign.
He is also a registered lobbyist for a wide
array of energy clients, including Marathon Oil and Shell Oil.
national finance co-chairman of the Romney campaign and, through his company
Melaleuca, has donated $1 million to Restore Our Future. He is also a
"litigious, combative, and a bitter foe of the gay
rights movement" who "spent big" on ads in an "ultimately
unsuccessful effort to force Idaho Public Television to cancel a program that
showed gays and lesbians in a favorable light to school children."
CEO of PBF Energy, America's fourth largest petroleum refining company,
and gave $100,000 to Restore Our Future. Not only did PBF energy help
drive gas prices up this year by curtailing gas production, but it spilled
6.6 million gallons of oil at a refinery in New Jersey. The release of
toxic gas and eventual explosion at another of its refineries in Delaware
also directly contributed to a spike in gas prices.
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Posted on May 15, 2012 by blackwaterdog
From The Truth Team:
A closer look at Romney's donors
reveals a group of wealthy individuals with less-than-reputable records. Quite
a few have been on the wrong side of the law, others have made profits at the
expense of so many Americans, and still others are donating to help ensure
Romney puts beneficial policies in place for them. Here's a look at just a few
of the people Romney has relied on:
Donors who
benefit from betting against America
to Romney's presidential ambitions through Super PAC and direct campaign
donations. As a partner at Blackstone, Schorr closed a deal in 2007 to
outsource the services of seven U.S. companies to a firm in India, boosting
that firm's profits by $220 million and making millionaires of the Indian
management team. In 2006, he arranged a buyout of a Colorado travel
reservations company that led to 841 layoffs while Blackstone and its partners
recouped the billions of dollars they invested in less than a year.
co-chairman of Romney's finance operation in Missouri and, together, have
donated $220,000 to Romney's presidential ambitions. They also control the
Harbour Group investment firm which bragged about buying
an automotive accessories manufacturing company in Kansas in 1997 and moving
production to Mexico. In 2002, the Harbour group's Mexico operation decided to
outsource to China because China was "offering incentives and making it easy to
open operations there." The Chinese government awarded Sam Fox the Marco Polo
Award for "his company's role in China's economic development and his
humanitarian contributions to that country."
Romney's Florida finance team and has bundled over $140,000 for the Romney
campaign. He also lobbied on behalf of Lender Processing Services, a
"foreclosure mill" that paid him to lobby on legislation aimed at preventing
lenders from "making loans that borrowers would have difficulty repaying." The
government has reprimanded Lender
Processing Services "for unsound practices related to residential
mortgage loan serving and foreclosure processing."
Special-interest
donors
Romney's stances on social and
economic issues, like his long-standing alliance with Big Oil, attracts the
contributions of high-dollar donors who are interested in pursuing a specific
agenda. Here are just a few of special-interest donors that Romney is taking
money from:
Louis Moore Bacon donated $500,000 to the Restore Our Future Super PAC. Bacon
makes his profit off of oil, first making a huge profit from successfully
betting that gas prices would rise before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1989.
Bacon's firm, Moore Capital, was fined $25 million for attempting
to manipulate certain commodity futures markets.
new bundlers who raised more than $25,000 in one month for Romney's campaign.
He is also a registered lobbyist for a wide
array of energy clients, including Marathon Oil and Shell Oil.
national finance co-chairman of the Romney campaign and, through his company
Melaleuca, has donated $1 million to Restore Our Future. He is also a
"litigious, combative, and a bitter foe of the gay
rights movement" who "spent big" on ads in an "ultimately
unsuccessful effort to force Idaho Public Television to cancel a program that
showed gays and lesbians in a favorable light to school children."
CEO of PBF Energy, America's fourth largest petroleum refining company,
and gave $100,000 to Restore Our Future. Not only did PBF energy help
drive gas prices up this year by curtailing gas production, but it spilled
6.6 million gallons of oil at a refinery in New Jersey. The release of
toxic gas and eventual explosion at another of its refineries in Delaware
also directly contributed to a spike in gas prices.
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From The Truth Team:
A closer look at Romney's donors
reveals a group of wealthy individuals with less-than-reputable records. Quite
a few have been on the wrong side of the law, others have made profits at the
expense of so many Americans, and still others are donating to help ensure
Romney puts beneficial policies in place for them. Here's a look at just a few
of the people Romney has relied on:
Donors who
benefit from betting against America
to Romney's presidential ambitions through Super PAC and direct campaign
donations. As a partner at Blackstone, Schorr closed a deal in 2007 to
outsource the services of seven U.S. companies to a firm in India, boosting
that firm's profits by $220 million and making millionaires of the Indian
management team. In 2006, he arranged a buyout of a Colorado travel
reservations company that led to 841 layoffs while Blackstone and its partners
recouped the billions of dollars they invested in less than a year.
co-chairman of Romney's finance operation in Missouri and, together, have
donated $220,000 to Romney's presidential ambitions. They also control the
Harbour Group investment firm which bragged about buying
an automotive accessories manufacturing company in Kansas in 1997 and moving
production to Mexico. In 2002, the Harbour group's Mexico operation decided to
outsource to China because China was "offering incentives and making it easy to
open operations there." The Chinese government awarded Sam Fox the Marco Polo
Award for "his company's role in China's economic development and his
humanitarian contributions to that country."
Romney's Florida finance team and has bundled over $140,000 for the Romney
campaign. He also lobbied on behalf of Lender Processing Services, a
"foreclosure mill" that paid him to lobby on legislation aimed at preventing
lenders from "making loans that borrowers would have difficulty repaying." The
government has reprimanded Lender
Processing Services "for unsound practices related to residential
mortgage loan serving and foreclosure processing."
Special-interest
donors
Romney's stances on social and
economic issues, like his long-standing alliance with Big Oil, attracts the
contributions of high-dollar donors who are interested in pursuing a specific
agenda. Here are just a few of special-interest donors that Romney is taking
money from:
Louis Moore Bacon donated $500,000 to the Restore Our Future Super PAC. Bacon
makes his profit off of oil, first making a huge profit from successfully
betting that gas prices would rise before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1989.
Bacon's firm, Moore Capital, was fined $25 million for attempting
to manipulate certain commodity futures markets.
new bundlers who raised more than $25,000 in one month for Romney's campaign.
He is also a registered lobbyist for a wide
array of energy clients, including Marathon Oil and Shell Oil.
national finance co-chairman of the Romney campaign and, through his company
Melaleuca, has donated $1 million to Restore Our Future. He is also a
"litigious, combative, and a bitter foe of the gay
rights movement" who "spent big" on ads in an "ultimately
unsuccessful effort to force Idaho Public Television to cancel a program that
showed gays and lesbians in a favorable light to school children."
CEO of PBF Energy, America's fourth largest petroleum refining company,
and gave $100,000 to Restore Our Future. Not only did PBF energy help
drive gas prices up this year by curtailing gas production, but it spilled
6.6 million gallons of oil at a refinery in New Jersey. The release of
toxic gas and eventual explosion at another of its refineries in Delaware
also directly contributed to a spike in gas prices.
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A closer look at Romney's donors
reveals a group of wealthy individuals with less-than-reputable records. Quite
a few have been on the wrong side of the law, others have made profits at the
expense of so many Americans, and still others are donating to help ensure
Romney puts beneficial policies in place for them. Here's a look at just a few
of the people Romney has relied on:
Donors who
benefit from betting against America
to Romney's presidential ambitions through Super PAC and direct campaign
donations. As a partner at Blackstone, Schorr closed a deal in 2007 to
outsource the services of seven U.S. companies to a firm in India, boosting
that firm's profits by $220 million and making millionaires of the Indian
management team. In 2006, he arranged a buyout of a Colorado travel
reservations company that led to 841 layoffs while Blackstone and its partners
recouped the billions of dollars they invested in less than a year.
co-chairman of Romney's finance operation in Missouri and, together, have
donated $220,000 to Romney's presidential ambitions. They also control the
Harbour Group investment firm which bragged about buying
an automotive accessories manufacturing company in Kansas in 1997 and moving
production to Mexico. In 2002, the Harbour group's Mexico operation decided to
outsource to China because China was "offering incentives and making it easy to
open operations there." The Chinese government awarded Sam Fox the Marco Polo
Award for "his company's role in China's economic development and his
humanitarian contributions to that country."
Romney's Florida finance team and has bundled over $140,000 for the Romney
campaign. He also lobbied on behalf of Lender Processing Services, a
"foreclosure mill" that paid him to lobby on legislation aimed at preventing
lenders from "making loans that borrowers would have difficulty repaying." The
government has reprimanded Lender
Processing Services "for unsound practices related to residential
mortgage loan serving and foreclosure processing."
Special-interest
donors
Romney's stances on social and
economic issues, like his long-standing alliance with Big Oil, attracts the
contributions of high-dollar donors who are interested in pursuing a specific
agenda. Here are just a few of special-interest donors that Romney is taking
money from:
Louis Moore Bacon donated $500,000 to the Restore Our Future Super PAC. Bacon
makes his profit off of oil, first making a huge profit from successfully
betting that gas prices would rise before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1989.
Bacon's firm, Moore Capital, was fined $25 million for attempting
to manipulate certain commodity futures markets.
new bundlers who raised more than $25,000 in one month for Romney's campaign.
He is also a registered lobbyist for a wide
array of energy clients, including Marathon Oil and Shell Oil.
national finance co-chairman of the Romney campaign and, through his company
Melaleuca, has donated $1 million to Restore Our Future. He is also a
"litigious, combative, and a bitter foe of the gay
rights movement" who "spent big" on ads in an "ultimately
unsuccessful effort to force Idaho Public Television to cancel a program that
showed gays and lesbians in a favorable light to school children."
CEO of PBF Energy, America's fourth largest petroleum refining company,
and gave $100,000 to Restore Our Future. Not only did PBF energy help
drive gas prices up this year by curtailing gas production, but it spilled
6.6 million gallons of oil at a refinery in New Jersey. The release of
toxic gas and eventual explosion at another of its refineries in Delaware
also directly contributed to a spike in gas prices.
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Romney's donors
Posted on May 15, 2012 by blackwaterdog
From The Truth Team:
A closer look at Romney's donors
reveals a group of wealthy individuals with less-than-reputable records. Quite
a few have been on the wrong side of the law, others have made profits at the
expense of so many Americans, and still others are donating to help ensure
Romney puts beneficial policies in place for them. Here's a look at just a few
of the people Romney has relied on:
Donors who
benefit from betting against America
to Romney's presidential ambitions through Super PAC and direct campaign
donations. As a partner at Blackstone, Schorr closed a deal in 2007 to
outsource the services of seven U.S. companies to a firm in India, boosting
that firm's profits by $220 million and making millionaires of the Indian
management team. In 2006, he arranged a buyout of a Colorado travel
reservations company that led to 841 layoffs while Blackstone and its partners
recouped the billions of dollars they invested in less than a year.
co-chairman of Romney's finance operation in Missouri and, together, have
donated $220,000 to Romney's presidential ambitions. They also control the
Harbour Group investment firm which bragged about buying
an automotive accessories manufacturing company in Kansas in 1997 and moving
production to Mexico. In 2002, the Harbour group's Mexico operation decided to
outsource to China because China was "offering incentives and making it easy to
open operations there." The Chinese government awarded Sam Fox the Marco Polo
Award for "his company's role in China's economic development and his
humanitarian contributions to that country."
Romney's Florida finance team and has bundled over $140,000 for the Romney
campaign. He also lobbied on behalf of Lender Processing Services, a
"foreclosure mill" that paid him to lobby on legislation aimed at preventing
lenders from "making loans that borrowers would have difficulty repaying." The
government has reprimanded Lender
Processing Services "for unsound practices related to residential
mortgage loan serving and foreclosure processing."
Special-interest
donors
Romney's stances on social and
economic issues, like his long-standing alliance with Big Oil, attracts the
contributions of high-dollar donors who are interested in pursuing a specific
agenda. Here are just a few of special-interest donors that Romney is taking
money from:
Louis Moore Bacon donated $500,000 to the Restore Our Future Super PAC. Bacon
makes his profit off of oil, first making a huge profit from successfully
betting that gas prices would rise before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1989.
Bacon's firm, Moore Capital, was fined $25 million for attempting
to manipulate certain commodity futures markets.
new bundlers who raised more than $25,000 in one month for Romney's campaign.
He is also a registered lobbyist for a wide
array of energy clients, including Marathon Oil and Shell Oil.
national finance co-chairman of the Romney campaign and, through his company
Melaleuca, has donated $1 million to Restore Our Future. He is also a
"litigious, combative, and a bitter foe of the gay
rights movement" who "spent big" on ads in an "ultimately
unsuccessful effort to force Idaho Public Television to cancel a program that
showed gays and lesbians in a favorable light to school children."
CEO of PBF Energy, America's fourth largest petroleum refining company,
and gave $100,000 to Restore Our Future. Not only did PBF energy help
drive gas prices up this year by curtailing gas production, but it spilled
6.6 million gallons of oil at a refinery in New Jersey. The release of
toxic gas and eventual explosion at another of its refineries in Delaware
also directly contributed to a spike in gas prices.
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This would be a good
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Romney's donors
Posted on May 15, 2012 by blackwaterdog
From The Truth Team:
A closer look at Romney's donors
reveals a group of wealthy individuals with less-than-reputable records. Quite
a few have been on the wrong side of the law, others have made profits at the
expense of so many Americans, and still others are donating to help ensure
Romney puts beneficial policies in place for them. Here's a look at just a few
of the people Romney has relied on:
Donors who
benefit from betting against America
to Romney's presidential ambitions through Super PAC and direct campaign
donations. As a partner at Blackstone, Schorr closed a deal in 2007 to
outsource the services of seven U.S. companies to a firm in India, boosting
that firm's profits by $220 million and making millionaires of the Indian
management team. In 2006, he arranged a buyout of a Colorado travel
reservations company that led to 841 layoffs while Blackstone and its partners
recouped the billions of dollars they invested in less than a year.
co-chairman of Romney's finance operation in Missouri and, together, have
donated $220,000 to Romney's presidential ambitions. They also control the
Harbour Group investment firm which bragged about buying
an automotive accessories manufacturing company in Kansas in 1997 and moving
production to Mexico. In 2002, the Harbour group's Mexico operation decided to
outsource to China because China was "offering incentives and making it easy to
open operations there." The Chinese government awarded Sam Fox the Marco Polo
Award for "his company's role in China's economic development and his
humanitarian contributions to that country."
Romney's Florida finance team and has bundled over $140,000 for the Romney
campaign. He also lobbied on behalf of Lender Processing Services, a
"foreclosure mill" that paid him to lobby on legislation aimed at preventing
lenders from "making loans that borrowers would have difficulty repaying." The
government has reprimanded Lender
Processing Services "for unsound practices related to residential
mortgage loan serving and foreclosure processing."
Special-interest
donors
Romney's stances on social and
economic issues, like his long-standing alliance with Big Oil, attracts the
contributions of high-dollar donors who are interested in pursuing a specific
agenda. Here are just a few of special-interest donors that Romney is taking
money from:
Louis Moore Bacon donated $500,000 to the Restore Our Future Super PAC. Bacon
makes his profit off of oil, first making a huge profit from successfully
betting that gas prices would rise before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1989.
Bacon's firm, Moore Capital, was fined $25 million for attempting
to manipulate certain commodity futures markets.
new bundlers who raised more than $25,000 in one month for Romney's campaign.
He is also a registered lobbyist for a wide
array of energy clients, including Marathon Oil and Shell Oil.
national finance co-chairman of the Romney campaign and, through his company
Melaleuca, has donated $1 million to Restore Our Future. He is also a
"litigious, combative, and a bitter foe of the gay
rights movement" who "spent big" on ads in an "ultimately
unsuccessful effort to force Idaho Public Television to cancel a program that
showed gays and lesbians in a favorable light to school children."
CEO of PBF Energy, America's fourth largest petroleum refining company,
and gave $100,000 to Restore Our Future. Not only did PBF energy help
drive gas prices up this year by curtailing gas production, but it spilled
6.6 million gallons of oil at a refinery in New Jersey. The release of
toxic gas and eventual explosion at another of its refineries in Delaware
also directly contributed to a spike in gas prices.
Obama and Romney are both for sell. It just depends how much and to who they want to sell themselves too. I think they call this prostitution.
Here is a real surprise our elections and government are for sale! Anybody got a New Story!
Proudy...If Bush's wouldn't appointed to the Supreme Court fat cats dump lazy ass judges that after Obama's win in 2008 were doing everything to allow billionaires to get involved in politics, you wouldn't see this mess.
At what point does a donation become a bribe?
We won’t know till it’s too late.
Right-wing corruption never stops.
Every law, every politician, every tax dollar is for sale to the highest bidder.
This country goes in to a crapper, Walker in Wisconsin gets over 13 million in three month (all people, I mean all three of the billionaires contributed), Obama, Romney (has no shame). Congress is not interested in Governing they are too busy collecting money for their campaigns. " For the people by the people" no longer works.
The Supreme Court f.... this country pretty badly.
If you want government bought and paid for by special interests, Romney is your man!!!
OK all of you republican 99%'s.... Big oil is out to screw you, Romney is making it happen for them. With the pipeline in place gas goes up 20cents per gallon in the Dakota's since there is a surplus there while they ship out out of the country. They have asked to have more than 1000 train cars of coal be shipped through Washington ports. Why is Big Coal screaming at Obama about cheap coal when they are selling it to China... Last week, they asked the State of WA to let twice as much coal out. I guess we don't need it here. Check the 20 cent increase in price because the oil leaves the Dakota's Big oil saves 1.50 per barrel to have it shipped and processed in Louisiana and gets to upcharge the north. It is a killer deal for them Of course they give Romney 1 million to buy his support. The republican industrial complex is out to screw America.
Just another example of how superpacs have changed the political landscape. The rich own all our politicians thru these superpacs. If elected politicians dont tow the line if the rich they cease getting these million dollar contributions. Without these millions they cant compete. Our democracy is dead.
The BILLIONAIRES are whom our representatives actually serve as constitutes. They buy the votes, the laws and keep the 535 in the congress and senate in power. Their shear buying power makes us say why bother they WON. Remember- The funds more then likely coming from Goldman's Sacs, the money source and behind the scene power.
Thus, many are afraid to step out of the comfort zone for fear of retaliation to confront a political system that use its police powers to intimidate and make the divided stay that way.
They have done a good Job in keeping the 312 million citizens, divided, by using the republican and democratic format as the only solution which they control. Most don't even have a clue what to look for with no teachings of our bill of rights and constitution.
It is mob rule, when 51 percent do what they want while 49 percent opposed have to go along.. This is not democracy of the republic which our forefathers drafted the Constitution and bill of rights for them and us too follow.
Most citizens have been disconnected from taking action through lack of information, battered self esteem, conditioning or sheepish behavior, on what our role as citizens really is.
Our news information is mixed trivial news and entertainment, mixed with information far less severe then things actually are in the political and financial systems, with a vague sense something is wrong, but just can’t figure it out groove
The solution and problem is not puppets like Bush, Obama, or the left, right, republican or democrats, but has more too do with our inability to see outside of the box and the inability to do something about it. We have traded our god given values for paper money, power and the perception of empty happiness, which only the few hold.
So aparently it is okay for the Black Messiah (Obama) to give shell companies Green Energy loans and not produce anything! Nancy Pelosi's brothers company got $767 million and many other campaign donors recieved many Millions of dollars for making contributions in the Hundreds of thousands of dollars. So maybe I should give Obama a few Hundred thousand and ask for a $1 Billion loan for a Green company that the only green will be the money going into my foreign bank account! A good solid investment plan!
No, Lee; it's not OK. Investment in/loan to Solyndra was a mistake and a poor use of tax dollars.
As for your rant about Pelosi, it appears to be overblown, because Pelosi's brother was "only" an independent board member of the affiliated investment firm--and there is still potential for the government to have a positive ROI. And there are agreements in place for this to be a revenue-generating project.
Also, although sometimes politicians can't be trusted any farther than they can be thrown, Nancy Pelosi denied knowledge of the deal.
So, like many conservative stooges, you've apparently fallen for the talking points that are misleading at best.
Unfortunately your racism shines through, though with your POTUS nickname. Hard to hide.