Romneyland defends shredding Olympic documents: It wasn't Mitt's fault. He'd already retired.

[ProSense]

Romneyland defends shredding Olympic documents: It wasn't Mitt's fault. He'd already retired.

by Jed Lewison

So yesterday we learned that despite Mitt Romney's pledge to run the most transparent Olympic Games in history, the archival records of the 2002 Winter Olympics are either under lock and key at the University of Utah's Marriott Library or have been completely destroyed. Now the Boston Globe reports:

But some who worked with Romney describe a close-to-the-vest chief executive unwilling to share so much as a budget with a state board responsible for spending oversight. Archivists now say most key records about the Games’ internal workings were destroyed under the supervision of a staffer shortly after the flame was extinguished at Olympic Cauldron Park, after Romney had returned to Massachusetts.

“Transparency? There was none with [the Salt Lake Organizing Committee] when he was there,” said Kenneth Bullock, a committee member who represented the Utah League of Cities and Towns. “Their transparency became a black hole. It was nonexistent.”

But don't worry, Mitt Romney had nothing to do with that, because according to the campaign, he no longer worked at the Olympics:

According to Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul, “Mitt Romney resigned from SLOC in early 2002 to run for governor of Massachusetts and was not involved in the decision-making regarding the final disposition of records.”

Well isn't that convenient ... Romney isn't to blame because he'd retired. Retroactively, no doubt. Is there nothing that he'll take responsibility for?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/24/1113294/-Romneyland-defends-shredding-Olympic-documents-It-wasn-t-Mitt-s-fault-He-d-already-retired

Mitt isn't responsible for anything, but he wants the advantage in everything. He's not one of "you people."

If the first six months don't count...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021011513

Mitt Romney's effort to hide Mitt Romney
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021013280

[malaise]

1. What about the computers he destroyed in the governor's office

Not his orders either?

[ProSense]

2. Nope, he's

also not responsible "retroactively" for the documents he signed.

[ProSense]

3. Kick! n/t

[spanone]

4. mitt is a combo of nixon, bush1, bush2. he's everything america does not need.

[librechik]

5. were they shredded retroactively in 1999 when the need was demonstrated in 2005?

just wondering...

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. I see a pattern here

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

7. I'm beginning to think he's the biggest piece of dogshit ever to run

although he hasn't quite displaced the Chimp yet in my most hateful feelings ... yet.

[bunnies]

8. I was convinced this was a joke.

[Igel]

9. Nope.

Actually, he made the pledge to be completely transparent and then quickly had to backtrack.

Apparently people started wanting to see staff contracts, pay records, and business contracts. Some things are just confidential, and whatever the top guy says the lawyer will be there saying, "Uh-uh, not unless you want to spend 40 hours a week in court."

Personally speaking, if I promised transparency and had to choose between fighting lawyers and just drinking a lot of Scale, I'd go with the Scale even if it killed me. (http://medgadget.com/2011/09/japanese-scientists-turn-animal-tissue-transparent.html)

As for making promises, when my appointment in student government was ending I told my staff that the new guy would keep them on. That was standard, they were just office staffers, undergrad student employees. He walked in the door Monday morning and instead of saying "Hi" said, "You're all fired, pick up your stuff and get out." Oops. They asked me to talk to him and I said, "Look, my appointment ended at 5 PM Friday. He showed up at 5:00. He didn't shake my hand or say hello. He just said I should leave, it was his office now, and I should leave the keys on the desk on my way out because he had important stuff to do. You really think I can help you? Let's go for coffee."

[rocktivity]

10. ANOTHER retroactive retirement

leaving him covered in glory and immune from any kind of accountability?

So I suppose that when he left the MA governor's mansion, it's merely a coincidence that his records were destroyed there, too.


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