Mitt Romney Registered As Lobbyist For Salt Lake City Olympics

[kpete]

Source: Huffington Post

Romney wasn't just the head of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee. Romney was also a registered lobbyist for the organization, Utah state records show.

Romney last worked as a lobbyist on Dec. 31, 2000, according to a spokesman for the state lieutenant governor, who oversees the registry.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/26/mitt-romney-olympics_n_1704261.html?1343302408

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Mitt Romney, former registered lobbyist

And it turns out he was a pretty good lobbyist ... at least as far as getting taxpayer funding is concerned. Romney secured nearly $400 million from state and local government in Utah, plus an additional $1.3 billion dollars from the federal government. That was more than twice the federal funding the Atlanta Olympics had gotten just six years earlier.

video & more
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/26/1113836/-Mitt-Romney-former-registered-lobbyist

[onehandle]

1. Mitt likes money more than people... and dogs. nt

[C_U_L8R]

2. Mitt likes other people's money

in his pocket. Even better if it's government money.
Remember how much money "disappeared" under Bush?
Well that got Rmoney drooling with greed and ambition.

[thelordofhell]

3. Mitt Rmoney

[DallasNE]

4. Of Course All Records Have Been Destroyed

Covering this event so we can never find out what all went on, especially behind the scene.

Also, one presumes Romney got paid for these lobbying efforts while also getting paid to head up the Olympic Committee -- so how much? We need those tax returns to find out.

[pnwmom]

5. So when he says no lobbyists will be part of his administration

he means,"only former lobbyists"?

[april]

6. he knows how to work the system....pig

[tanyev]

7. Well, isn't that special?

I wonder how many companies owned by Bain just happened to get Olympic contracts thrown their way.