Romney Staff Spent Nearly $100,000 To Hide Records

Mitt Romney spent nearly $100,000 in state funds to replace computers in his office at the end of his term as governor of Massachusetts in 2007 as part of an unprecedented effort to keep his records secret, Reuters has learned.

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Comments

[big picture thinker]

12:39 PM on 12/10/2011

Remember Romney is a smart Harvard educated true Elite born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He left the state a mess, #47 in the country for state job growth and a political legacy of a barely thought out healthcare mandate for the next Govenor, Deval Patrick (D) to figure out. Seemingly mild manner "nice guys" with hidden agendas are the new covert politics.

[serena1313]

06:24 PM on 12/07/2011

Two weeks ago Romney admitted he intentionally purged his administration's official correspondence to hide potentially-embarrassing information from public scrutiny & “opposition research” teams. When the 6-figure bill came due, he was gone. Although Romney did not violate the law, his actions are indicative of misplaced priorities which might be overlooked, however, his other past indiscretions might not be so easily dismissed. But given the media 's disinterest in reporting Romney's finance committee co-chairman Alan Fabian, in 2007 was indicted for money laundering, mail fraud, perjury & obstruction of Justice & Romney's more recent involvement in the Stanford 2009 Ponzi scheme, the public is clueless.

Other background information also largely ignored, but the voters would be very much interested in knowing Romney supports the T-Party; his equity firm laid-off thousands of workers; believes that corporations are people; favours Wall Street; backs foreclosures; says Detroit automakers should have gone bankrupt; his abysmal jobs record in Massachusetts; promises to appoint far-right justices to SCOTUS, intends to privatize Social Security & voucherize Medicare and toes the GOP line on everything from Healthcare to Planned Parenthood, climate change to student aid, deregulation to tax reform, etc...

Unless Romney's ineptitude in choosing advisers, naked political calculations, misplaced priorities & far-right agenda are exposed, voters, none the wiser, might be inclined to god forbid elect Romney, a choice, undoubtedly, regrettable.

[Drosco]

12:20 AM on 12/07/2011

All these people are quacks. Newt was kicked out as speaker but now he is suddenly president material.

[Deejay Sweetlife]

06:40 PM on 12/06/2011

So he will go out of his way to destroy secret information and flip flops on the public information...sounds like real presidential material...NOT. Oh yeah, don't ask him questions about hot button current issues either...Mitt doesn't like that...

[Playlist]

04:00 PM on 12/06/2011

This thread is about Multi Mitt...and his dishonesty.and willingness to go through extraordinary extremes to hide his PUBLIC record..He was NOT presidential material in 2004, 2008, nor is he in 2012..

[amaboss52]

03:32 PM on 12/06/2011

Maybe it's just me but Mitt Flopney destroying records means he's hiding something.

[l78lancer]

02:25 PM on 12/06/2011

Why is Reuters just learning this and this story came out 2 weeks ago?

[JeffE]

02:24 PM on 12/06/2011

Can't you just feel the oil oozing off this guy?

[mikey09]

02:24 PM on 12/06/2011

A non-story for me. heck they all do this, our current Transparent President even had his school records sealed. They hide everything they can.

[mfelder]

03:01 PM on 12/06/2011

Exactly what do you expect to gleam from our President school records. If he was a poor student, it' irrelevant because he has become an accomplished man in his own right. School records do not make the measure of a man. Try taking your school record in and getting a job at an interview. It get's you in the door, but it does not get you the job.

[mikey09]

03:55 PM on 12/06/2011

Missing the point. When powerful people want to hide information, they can and do. Period. BUT, I disagree, since lots of people go around making all kinds of claims abt their educational experience etc, it should be something verified. A funny movie once had a line "Do you want to trust your life to the doctor that got a D in anatomy, or the guy with an A".

[kensp]

03:13 PM on 12/08/2011

What do you mean by sealed?

[mikey09]

04:10 PM on 12/08/2011

They go to court and have all public records removed from public eyes. My marriage, your marriage etc are public record, same with your birth, death, divorce, homeownership, etc, all public record. Obama had many of his parents records sealed, simple as that as well as other records pertaining to himself.

[bessielil]

02:17 PM on 12/06/2011

It's not an unprecedented effort because Mike Huckabee did the same thing when he left the AR governorship. Equally outrageous, however.

[NYC619]

02:06 PM on 12/06/2011

Flip Flop Bot is hiding his manufacturer's warranty...that and instructions on how to de- and re- program him.

[ThePelton]

02:01 PM on 12/06/2011

Sounds like George W. all over again.

[rsticks18]

01:58 PM on 12/06/2011

i say all candidates have to open all their documents up for inspection and this includes president obama whose whole life is sealed not that any liberals care

[elamatt]

01:58 PM on 12/06/2011

How many laws did this "government Buy Back" program violate?

[Don Glenn]

01:52 PM on 12/06/2011

Just found! Romney campaign strategy. Hide the facts, avoid the media, tell them stupid enough to listen what they want to hear, get elected sell off assets, (ala Bain Capital) retire twice as rich after looting what ever was left after Bush.