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Romney staff spent nearly $100,000 to hide records
http://www.trust.org/ ^ | 12/6/2011 | Mark Hosenball

Posted on 12/05/2011 4:53:59 PM PST by TBBT

* Republican presidential hopeful's actions unprecedented

* Aides purchased hard drives of state-issued computers

* Emails and other communications wiped from servers

By Mark Hosenball

WASHINGTON, Dec 5 (Reuters) - 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.

The move during the final weeks of Romney's administration was legal but unusual for a departing governor, Massachusetts officials say.

The effort to purge the records was made a few months before Romney launched an unsuccessful campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. He is again competing for the party's nomination, this time to challenge Barack Obama for the presidency in 2012.

(Excerpt) Read more at trust.org ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: mitt; romney; romney4romney; romneydirtytricks; romneysecrecy; romneytruthfile; romneyvsthepeople; willard
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Most transparent administration of the future?
1 posted on 12/05/2011 4:54:08 PM PST by TBBT
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To: TBBT

Time to go with Huntsman guys.


2 posted on 12/05/2011 4:57:56 PM PST by JosephMama (Huntsman 2012: That other Mormon guy)
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To: TBBT

Hmmmmm. Dude must be ashamed of his record, hey?


3 posted on 12/05/2011 4:59:07 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: TBBT

lol- not a Romney fan but this just shows you how sadly pathetic the criminal liberal media is....they’re going to blame Romney for hiding records while they covered obama’s tracks???

i hope romney shoves the hypocrisy right back in their face...


4 posted on 12/05/2011 5:00:44 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5million pay no federal income tax then vote demoKrat)
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To: God luvs America

I sure wish Romney would lambast the media and ask them where the heck Obama’s academic records are. He may even move up a notch in my book if he does that.


5 posted on 12/05/2011 5:02:22 PM PST by KansasGirl
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To: TBBT
in a State such as Massachusetts with a massive population of corrupt democrat politicians at every level, he did the right thing. If I were him I would have done the same to protect myself from those neer-do-wells.
6 posted on 12/05/2011 5:02:22 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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To: TBBT

All Clinton did was pull the W’s


7 posted on 12/05/2011 5:02:54 PM PST by sasquatch
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To: TBBT

How much did Obama’s backers spend to hide his whole life?


8 posted on 12/05/2011 5:02:54 PM PST by RatRipper (I'll ride a turtle to work every day before I buy anything from Government Motors.)
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To: TBBT
in a State such as Massachusetts with a massive population of corrupt democrat politicians at every level, he did the right thing. If I were him I would have done the same to protect myself from those neer-do-wells.
9 posted on 12/05/2011 5:02:54 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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To: RatRipper

Don’t get me wrong . . . I don’t support Romney.


10 posted on 12/05/2011 5:03:49 PM PST by RatRipper (I'll ride a turtle to work every day before I buy anything from Government Motors.)
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To: TBBT

“The move during the final weeks of Romney’s administration was legal”

It was legal. Period.


11 posted on 12/05/2011 5:04:51 PM PST by Saundra Duffy ( For victory & freedom!!!)
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To: elpadre

dittos.... If I were Guv of Massachusetts I would wipe everything clean as a baby’s bottom. Why give Dems any ammunition


12 posted on 12/05/2011 5:08:32 PM PST by dennisw (I heard the old man laughing What good is a used up world and how could it be worth having-Sting)
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Republican presidential hopeful's actions unprecedented

Unprecented?? Republicans have to pay to hide their past. Democrats? The MSM hides their past for free.

13 posted on 12/05/2011 5:08:41 PM PST by WeatherGuy
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To: TBBT
The move during the final weeks of Romney's administration was legal but unusual for a departing governor, Massachusetts officials say.

0bama can be slammed ten fold for sh!t like this but NEVER gets the slamming from Reuters, I wonder why?

14 posted on 12/05/2011 5:09:51 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: God luvs America

Beat me to it. Where is the idiot in the Wh school records roto rooters?


15 posted on 12/05/2011 5:13:56 PM PST by italianquaker ( Mr Obama inherited an AAA rating and made it AA, thnx Resident Zero)
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To: TBBT

But a lot LESS $$$$ moola than obama has spent hiding his records. Jeez. Now brit Hume is telling fox viewers that the white house fears running against romney more than Gingrich...Huh? These Rinos are something else. I think I’m shutting off the TV.


16 posted on 12/05/2011 5:19:41 PM PST by DefeatCorruption
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To: Saundra Duffy
It was not legal. There was a coverup of the BIG DIG.

There was Romney imposition of RomneyCARE

There were felonies.

And YOU KNOW, there was the carpetbagger, Milt Romney:


17 posted on 12/05/2011 5:20:36 PM PST by Diogenesis ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. " Pres. Ronald Reagan)
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“* Republican presidential hopeful’s actions unprecedented.”

Let’s be fair here. Governor Perry was having state E-Mails deleted after TWO WEEKS. Why do you think he managed to stay out of trouble for a decade...given the level of corruption in his staff?


18 posted on 12/05/2011 5:26:31 PM PST by BobL ("Heartless" and "Inhumane" FReepers for Cain - we've HAD ENOUGH)
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Eh, I don’t have a problem with this. Look at what they do to Republicans, every chance they get. Look at going through Palin’s emails, scrubbing and hunting for anything they can trump up. I’m not sure this bothers me.


19 posted on 12/05/2011 5:34:18 PM PST by wildwood
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Eh, I don’t have a problem with this. Look at what they do to Republicans, every chance they get. Look at going through Palin’s emails, scrubbing and hunting for anything they can trump up. I’m not sure this bothers me.


20 posted on 12/05/2011 5:34:31 PM PST by wildwood
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