Wed Jul 25, 2012, 03:01 PM

Judi Lynn (77,571 posts)

MPs tell Barclays to stop fundraising for Mitt Romney

Source: Guardian

MPs tell Barclays to stop fundraising for Mitt Romney
Bank at centre of Libor-setting scandal says it is non-partisan and donations are made by employees in a personal capacity
Amelia Hill and Rupert Neate
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 25 July 2012 13.27 EDT

Barclays has privately distanced itself from its bankers' donations to Mitt Romney, the US Republican presidential candidate, after its executives were accused in parliament of fundraising for political candidates instead of working to rebuild the public's trust in the wake of the Libor-setting scandal.

Executives at Barclays have donated over $1m to Romney's presidential campaign and will hand over more money on Thursday night at an exclusive fundraising dinner in a secret Mayfair location, where tickets cost between $50,000 and $75,000.

Romney arrived in the UK on Wednesday for a series of meetings with David Cameron and other political figures before attending two fundraising events and the Olympics this weekend.

An early-day motion (EDM) signed by 11 MPs last week demanded the bank and its directors stop working to bolster Romney's election campaign war chest and concentrate on repairing confidence and trust in the banking system instead.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jul/25/barclays-fundraising-mitt-romney

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14 replies	Author	Time	Post
MPs tell Barclays to stop fundraising for Mitt Romney (Original post)	Judi Lynn	Jul 2012	OP
Is Romney allowed to accept foreign donations?	MNBrewer	Jul 2012	#1
Why doesn't he just fly to Saudi-fucking-Arabia and collect campaign donations?	Kolesar	Jul 2012	#12
Why did I think that we weren't supposed to have foreign money in our country's elections?	upaloopa	Jul 2012	#2
Foreign corporations are people, too, my friend!	Atman	Jul 2012	#3
Yes, they just don't speak with an accent like we do here in the States. . .	Journeyman	Jul 2012	#10
And what's with all his "secret" fundraisers at "secret" locations???	Atman	Jul 2012	#4
Romney is tight with the financial investment/manipulation wizards	Jessy169	Jul 2012	#5
I guess since Barclays is an Anglo-Saxon institution	LibertyLover	Jul 2012	#6
Mitt would love to offshore the election	C_U_L8R	Jul 2012	#7
Not a peep on the America's media, though... If this man gets elected, we're toast.	freshwest	Jul 2012	#8
With LIBOR, you'd think they would want to distance themselves from Barclays.	mikeytherat	Jul 2012	#9
Now we know the real purpose of higher-than-worker executive pay. NT	Trillo	Jul 2012	#11
Must warm British hearts for Mitt to raise money from Barclays hile trash talking the	yellowcanine	Jul 2012	#13
Romney is now toast!	Rosa Luxemburg	Jul 2012	#14

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Wed Jul 25, 2012, 03:10 PM

MNBrewer (5,606 posts)

1. Is Romney allowed to accept foreign donations?

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Thu Jul 26, 2012, 08:17 AM

Kolesar (29,307 posts)

12. Why doesn't he just fly to Saudi-fucking-Arabia and collect campaign donations?

That's where the money is.

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Wed Jul 25, 2012, 03:12 PM

upaloopa (2,065 posts)

2. Why did I think that we weren't supposed to have foreign money in our country's elections?

If Mitt Raw Money can get foreign contributions, Obama should travel around the world and collect money too. He is more popular in more countries then Mitt Raw Money is.
Maybe Romney will go to all those countries that have outsourced American jobs and threaten to send those jobs back to the U.S. if they don't contribute to him.

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Wed Jul 25, 2012, 03:13 PM

Atman (26,052 posts)

3. Foreign corporations are people, too, my friend!

The trouble is, I'm not so sure that Mitt Rmoney is "people."

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Wed Jul 25, 2012, 05:36 PM

Journeyman (9,197 posts)

10. Yes, they just don't speak with an accent like we do here in the States. . .

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Wed Jul 25, 2012, 03:16 PM

Atman (26,052 posts)

4. And what's with all his "secret" fundraisers at "secret" locations???

THIS is the man they want to be president? And they're worried about Obama's Hawaiian birth certificate.

In the words of that great British statesman, Sir Oswald Ozbourne..."Im goin' off the rails on the crazy train."

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Wed Jul 25, 2012, 03:38 PM

Jessy169 (412 posts)

5. Romney is tight with the financial investment/manipulation wizards

Over on Huffpost I found a "top 98 contributors" to the presidential campaigns click-through. About 80 of those top contributors, estimated, are all fabulously wealthy hedge fund managers or people who have made their huge fortunes off of trading in the financial markets. Needless to say, almost all of them are Romney contributors, with just a few exceptions. Wherever Mitt goes in the world, his best friends are going to be the top bankers and others who make their money as what I refer to as the "financial investment/manipulation wizards".

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Wed Jul 25, 2012, 03:41 PM

LibertyLover (4,127 posts)