For Wealthy Romney Donors, Up Close And Personal Access

nytimes.com:

PARK CITY, Utah --They schmoozed with Mitt Romney at a barbecue cookout at the Olympic Park, pressing him on labor regulations and the threat of a nuclear Iran as downhill skiers performed midair flips behind them.

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Comments

[moricone]

08:47 AM on 06/27/2012

Are you rich enough to be part of something like this like Romney's?

Exclusive: Romney Family Investment Group Partnered With Alleged Perpetrators Of $8 Billion Ponzi Scheme
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/11/01/316040/romney-solamere-ponzi/

[Pstein]

11:39 AM on 06/25/2012

I heard for $250,000 you can actually pluck a nose hair from Romney's nose a keep it.

[StillAmused]

10:43 AM on 06/25/2012

How about unìndicted warcrìmes enabler Karl Rove, whose phony tax-exempt American Crossroads depends on absence of direct coordination with the candidate?

Any pics of them in the Deer Valley hòt tub tògether?

So much as a pèep from the braìn-dèad màinstream press on this minor detail?

[cruzecon]

12:52 PM on 06/25/2012

Yes, where is the investigative reporting on the direct coordination going on at this event? I agree about the war crimes and add the Contempt citation from Congress for failing to appear. Rove knows he got away with murder once and does not fear the press now.

[modrnknght]

09:52 AM on 06/25/2012

There is one thing that I am sick of are all the political ads and it is only June. Before Citizens United, the number of ads was bad, but with SuperPACs, it is ridiculous. I also dislike the way some ads "suggest" things, whether or not are true. Case in point, an ad here in California has a woman/actress saying, "I heard (candidate's name) charged taxpayers etc...." There it is in a nutshell, "I heard". You can say anything you want after that "I heard" and not have to prove it. It could be, "I heard that ___________ tore up the Constitution while crossdressing at a pinko rally." Really disgusting politics.

[suzc]

09:15 AM on 06/25/2012

I understand that truly stupid conservatives are gloating and excited about Romney "winning", but where is the old GOP, the ones who actually cared about America and Americans instead of just themselves and their wealth and power?

Is nobody worried, conservative, liberal or centrist, about the fact that:
(1) GOP governors are suppressing voter registration (and thus Dem votes) in many states, not just FL and Michigan.
(2) Romney and Rove are flaunting campaign finance laws (such as remain, albeit in tatters) with their SuperPAC elite expensive vacation in Utah.
(3) GOP and Romney and Rove TV ads contain actual lies -- not twists, but lies.
(4) The Koch Bros and Rove and the rest of the Power Elite in the New GOP are not even pretending that this will be a fair election -- not even PRETENDING to be doing anything but lying, manipulating, and buying the White House and Congress (having already bought the Supreme Court) while disenfranchising voters across the country.

Where is the outrage? Where is the fear? Be afraid, people. Be very afraid!

[cruzecon]

12:56 PM on 06/25/2012

I, for one, am outraged. We must bombard the media with citizen comments to try and counteract the pressure of commercial buys of air time and print space. Remind them real people vote - with actual votes and with viewership.

[StillAmused]

12:31 AM on 06/25/2012

Would that include unìndicted warcrìmes enabler Karl Rove, whose phony tax-exempt American Crossroads depends on absence of direct coordination with the candidate?

... while they're rùbbing each other's thìghs in the hot tub at Deer Valley?

Anyone heard from the braìn-dèad press on this small matter?

[camelias and sweet tea]

09:05 PM on 06/24/2012

They are probably being tricked into a mass baptism ceremony

[fredgladys]

09:18 PM on 06/24/2012

Why bother trying to trick them, just wait until they're dead.

[joyz41]

08:48 PM on 06/24/2012

Romney is miffed that the Koch Bros. did not change their fund-raising date to accommodate his. Looks like Romney needs to be reminded of his place once in a while. You are a puppet for signing bills for them, Romney.

[cruzecon]

01:08 PM on 06/25/2012

This is why we hear so little about the races for Senate and the House- the MSM which includes Fox, want to saturate the airwaves and print space with Presidential advertisements and let the buyout of the Congress go unnoticed for the most part. Local affiliates will have a glut of money coming from Congressional races and the cherry on top of the Presidential race. It will be a wonder if there is any actual programming between now and November. IF the GOtP wins Congress and Romney is the hand signer in chief, we will see a drastic and perhaps unchangeable tilt into Fascism -the blending of Government and Corporate control of a nation where all the loyalty is demanded to the state and individual civil rights are no longer of any concern. Yes, Romney should connect with reality and realize he is just the puppet in a larger plan and his talk of liberty and freedom rings hollow to a lot of people.

[ursasr]

07:32 PM on 06/24/2012

and if electes that will continue, including government business contract talks.

[tc297]

06:42 PM on 06/24/2012

Sooo.... Nothing new here. Obama's wealthy supporters get unprecendented access to him too.

[tinarm]

05:11 PM on 06/24/2012

Oh, look a W. administration sleep over with all the perks of a few minutes with ham rove, how wonderful.

[Bluesue]

04:51 PM on 06/24/2012

Finally, Romney is with the people he's comfortable with.

[suzc]

09:16 AM on 06/25/2012

and the only ones who count in today's GOP world............. Be afraid! Be very afraid!

[moricone]

11:54 PM on 06/25/2012

They were filming "Hot Tub Time Machine 2" in Utah, and they were all wearing Th,on,g Style Mag.ic Un^derw)ear!

[Bluesue]

04:46 PM on 06/24/2012

These are Romney's investors and they expect a big return on that investment and Romney will do what he's good at - maximizing profit for his investors regardless of the effect on the country and people (same thing he did at Bain).

What do these people want? RollingStone had an article with a snapshot of these big donors and what they want in return.

One of them is Harold Simmons of Texas (he was one of the Swiftboat moneymen). From RollingStone:

Plans to store radioactive waste from 36 states in an underground dump in Texas; has been sued repeatedly by the Justice Department for failing to clean up contaminated Superfund sites. Calls Obama "the most dangerous American alive, because he would eliminate free enterprise in this country."

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/right-wing-billionaires-behind-mitt-romney-20120524#ixzz1ykITkvlV

[Micheal Anderson]

04:41 PM on 06/24/2012

Because money is speech and the more speech you have the louder you can talk.

If you don't have any money, well, then you're not really a citizen, are you?

[gjwarnock]

03:26 PM on 06/24/2012

Come one, come all, join the rank and file of the 0.1%
Learn how to steal an election, learn how to steal from
the poor with a free conscience, help me acquire the
2012 election and I will be forever in your debt,,,,