He should have called ICE and reported the employer of criminal invaders.
(866) 347-2423
Posted on 12/05/2007 8:59:23 AM PST by lesser_satan
It's a good thing Romney has The Speech to dominate much of the campaign talk this week, because the rest of the news is pretty bad for him.
First there's word that the company that did his lawn continued to employ illegal immigrants, even after the brouhaha last year.
"After this same issue arose last year, I gave the company a second chance with very specific conditions," Romney said in the statement. "They were instructed to make sure people working for the company were of legal status. We personally met with the company in order to inform them about the importance of this matter. The owner of the company guaranteed us, in very certain terms, that the company would be in total compliance with the law going forward.
"The company's failure to comply with the law is disappointing and inexcusable, and I believe it is important I take this action," Romney said.
Team Romney has good reason to bang their heads against a wall and ask, "what are the odds?" Is the company, "Community Lawn Service With a Heart", hell-bent on ruining their client who's running for president? No interest in a contract to take care of the White House lawn?
Then we have another odd case of push-polling in Iowa. A group has claimed responsibility, a self-described "grassroots independent organization committed to educating voters to support Governor Mike Huckabee for the Republican Nomination for President of the United States" and notes that they aren't "authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee." Huckabee says he doesn't approve of their tactics.
The firm making the calls, ccAdvertising, has also done about $53,000 worth of work for the Romney campaign. Gabriel Joseph, the head of ccAdvertising, donated $1,000 to the Romney campaign on June 11.
I spoke to Mr. Joseph. He confirmed the donation to the Romney campaign; when asked about any work for this Huckabee group, or for the Romney campaign, he said that he could not disclose anything regarding his firm’s work.
When I said that the call number led back to his firm, he said, “Jim, our clients are confidential, and our work for our clients is confidential.” He said that if his firm’s clients choose to talk about them, that’s their decision, but that the confidentiality agreements do not permit him to confirm or deny anything regarding any work for anyone.
How do you feel if you're Mitt Romney, and a firm you hired - a firm headed by one of your donors! - is running push polls against you?
By the way, below the fold is the trail leading back to ccAdvertising:
Iowans received calls for “poll” from Caller ID of “PRDR 07” and phone number of “703-263-9011.” “Received a call said to be a Presidential preference survey for the Republican caucus in Iowa... this was a Push Poll Phone Call! Will report this to the local Republican office.” This is from the WhoCallsMe? website. (An NRO reader in Iowa reported the same phone number.)
The “PRDR” Caller-ID was linked to “Freeeats.Com, Inc., DBA ccAdvertising.” This comes from the OurCommunityPower.org website, 7/13/06. “PRDR 571-522-1511 are made by Freeeats.Com, Inc. DBA ccAdvertising C/O Gabriel Joseph 13800 Coppermine Road Herndon, Virginia 20171 703-234-2200 (Voice)”
This is from the Californians Against Telephone Solicitation website, 7/13/06.
Gabriel S. Joseph III is the president of FreeEats.com. (FreeEats.Com, Press Release, 9/13/07; Virginia State Corporation Commission Records, accessed via Nexis.) Visitors to FreeEats.Com are redirected automatically to CCAdvertising.biz. (www.freeeats.com)
Gabriel S. Joseph of Centerville, VA, who lists himself as a consultant, gave Mitt Romney $1,000 on June 11, 2007, according to the Center For Responsive Politics.
Romney For President disbursed $53,755 to CC Advertising Of Herndon, Va. on August 9, 2007, for “Survey Research.”
Yep.
That said, he should have FIRED the lawn care company on General Principal ALONE.
Given that the firm is run by Romney supporters, that seems a heckuva lot more likely than that the principals of the firm didn't know who their clients were or what they were doing for them.
Reminds me of that nutjob bill clinton tried to appoint who had an illegal nanny whom she paid under the table.
“Community Lawn Service With a Heart”
You can’t make these things up.
There’s not much doubt that Romney was behind that fake anti-Mormon push poll. He has hired a lot of fast operators to work for his campaign.
The lawn service is run out of Chelsea MA, a “Sanctuary City”. Chelsea boasts the highest Tuberculosis rates in the state and five Mayors in a row went to prison.
Hearts but no brains.
Aside from your knee-jerk anti-Mormonism, what evidence do you have to support such a claim?
That “nutjob” was Bush. And her name was Linda Chavez.
He should have called ICE and reported the employer of criminal invaders.
(866) 347-2423
Knowing a couple of people that work there, I’m underwhelmed.
Sorry.
That sounds incredibly weak.
And hows about this....
Where do you get that the above poster is “anti-Mormon”?
Because he doesn’t like Romney?
It’s a fact Romney has accepted help from many sleazy people. Sen Larry “Wide Stance” Craig was the head of a state pro-Romney election committee, just for the most public example of the people Romney gathered around himself.
Time to levy a big fine against this lawn service. That’ll stop (or at least reduce) their use of illegals.
So, you knew all along that Sen. Larry Craig was queer?
Who else has Romney associated with to substantiate your claim that Romney associates with sleaze, or are you anti-Mormon, too?
Clinton appointed a crazy-left woman in order to get the almost-crazy one he really wanted. At the appropriate moment Clinton outed the woman for the nanny problem and the Senate confirmed Clinton’s “replacement” appointment, the one he really wanted that he thought he could not get confirmed until he put up a much worse first choice.
That's how it's supposed to look.
Where did you get that idea? The firm's quotes were that they have strict confidentiality agreements and will not disclose that information, NOT that they didn't know it.
Further, these firms exist to do advertising, and are paid to do so. If they only accepted work from the candidates they support, they would be campaign firms, not advertising firms.
I don't feel bad for Romney. He'll handle this as he handles everything, and how he handles this will give us insight into how he will be as President.
I’m sorry. I was mistaken.
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