Romney Violates PRE-NEGOTIATED AGREEMENT Cuts Off Press ACCESS To Israeli Fundraiser

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"..Following a series of well-publicized gaffes in London, Mitt Romney’s campaign may be trying to restrict press access to the former Massachusetts governor as he travels to Israel, violating a pre-negotiated agreement.


Romney, who is flying with a group of reporters on his international trip, had agreed in April to allow limited media coverage of all finance events held in public spaces. But on Saturday, the campaign suddenly reneged on that deal and announced that a fundraiser with big-money American donors — including controversial casino magnet Sheldon Adelson — in Jerusalem’s King David Hotel would be “closed press“:

But Romney’s campaign announced Saturday that it would block the news media from covering the event, which will be held at the King David Hotel. The campaign’s decision to close the fundraiser to the press violates the ground rules it negotiated with news organizations in April, when Romney wrapped up the Republican nomination and began opening some of his finance events to the news media.


Under the agreement, a pool of wire, print and television reporters can cover every Romney fundraiser held in public venues, including hotels and country clubs. The campaign does not allow media coverage of fundraisers held in private residences.


Campaign spokesman Rick Gorka declined to explain the campaign’s decision to violate protocol with the Jerusalem event. Pressed repeatedly by reporters to offer an explanation, Gorka said only that the fundraiser was “closed press.”

“That’s all I’ve got for you — it’s closed press,” Gorka said.

Politico notes that Romney “allowed press into his London fundraiser Thursday night.”






http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/07/28/601941/romney-cuts-off-press-access-to-israeli-fundraiser-following-london-gaffs/

[unblock]

1. allow me to annoy you. now please go write some negative stories about me. thank you very much.

this guy has a nixonian streak in him a mile long.

when the news is bad, just cover it up and stonewall.

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2. Nixon takes a back seat to this dude.

[think]

3. Is Dick Cheney showing up at this fund raiser too? /nt

[Politicalboi]

4. I'm guessing

A lot of supporters are backing out, and they are afraid the press would only see half the room filled. In London he had an event with tickets being sold for $25,000 or so, but later they were selling tickets for $1,000. One guy said he was offered one for free.

[think]

5. Outstanding :) Thanks for posting /nt

[Daemonaquila]

21. Thanks!

I love that thought. Mittens, Mittens...

[Betty Jo]

6. Look it up in your Funk and Wagnalls

The press and all America needs to look up the relationship that the Mormon religion has with Israel.The Saints and the Fundamentalists have a very interesting dogma concerning Israel that bears on everything that Romney says.Setting up the world for Doomsday in a nuking firestorm is part of the plan.I,for one, do not intend to join the crazies in the Rapture.So,Romney,hide all your nonsense and greed,try real hard.People like me will continue to expose you.

[Richard D]

13. Do you have a reference on this?

Would be helpful. I know that's what the dominionists believe. I wasn't aware it was a Mormon belief.

[SoCalDem]

7. Message to press.. GO HOME

If Mitt the twit is off limits to you, then leave him be.

Report on NOTHING but his gaffes, and refuse to cover him at all.

Sauce for the goose

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8. " Report on NOTHING but his gaffes "...Romneyville would deem them all as the ' librule' press.

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. really. Just let him fall in the forest with no sound.

tho I suspect he is such a gaffe magnet, the press watches him like a Nascar race, hoping for a crash.

[DCBob]

9. Probably working out a deal..

If the Israelis will create some chaos for Obama by bombing Iran then if Romney wins he will nuke Iran on day one in office and Sheldon will put up some casino/whore cash to sweeten the deal.

[AndyTiedye]

10. If the Donors are Not American Citizens

they might not want the press to report that fact.

[K8-EEE]

11. I think they are in Sarah Palin mode with him -- no more off-script anything

They are going to try and shield him from the press the rest of the trip and when he gets home all Faux all the time.

[flamingdem]

12. Take the $ and run Mitt n/t

[Poiuyt]

14. He can't tell "poor people" jokes if the press is in the room!

[spanone]

16. mitt cares about mitt. when you change positions as much as him, you're an opportunist

nothing else

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19. And that includes Mitts whale donors...

Ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar:

"...Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is stopping in Israel to highlight his close ties to Prime Minister Netanyahu. But the visit also will showcase super Super-PAC donor Sheldon Adelson, whose money is aimed at defeating President Obama, notes ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar.


- The other distinguishing characteristic of Adelson is the strength of his affinity to a foreign government — not just to a foreign country but to the policies of the current government of that country. It is appropriate that Adelson will be one of the greeters when Romney arrives in Israel because, although Adelson is a U.S. citizen, his declared primary allegiance is to Israel.


Adelson once commented that when he did military service as a young man it “unfortunately” was in a U.S. uniform rather than an Israeli one and that all he and his Israeli wife “care about is being good Zionists, being good citizens of Israel, because even though I am not Israeli born, Israel is in my heart.”


Adelson is using his fortune to push a political agenda in Israel as well as in the United States. One way he has done that is by establishing five years ago a free-distribution newspaper, Israel Hayom, which has become the highest-circulation daily in Israel. The paper follows a firmly rightist, pro-Netanyahu line. As a business the newspaper is a money loser, but Adelson cheerfully has indicated his willingness to continue losing money on the paper (not a significant loss, in comparison with his fortune) to get its message across.




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http://consortiumnews.com/2012/07/28/romney-pleases-super-pac-donor-on-israel/

[southernyankeebelle]

17. This is what we will get if he becomes president. Yep an entitled mother f**cker

[Tx4obama]

18. Kick! n/t

[DeSwiss]

20. Using the 'ol Super-powers again, eh Mittens?

- You retroactively CANCELLED the Pre-Negotiated Agreement, didn't you?

K&R

[randome]

22. 'Violating' implies a penalty to be paid. 'Reneged' is the right word.

Pissing off the press may be the biggest Romney gaffe of them all!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

23. Romney's campaign more secretive than Area 51 - the most secretive man ever to run

for high office in this country's history.

[smirkymonkey]

24. I hate him more and more with each passing day.

Please just let me kick him in the balls just once.

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28. Don't forget to wear toe caps!.LOL!

[indypaul]

25. And stop bugging me about those GD tax returns also. N/T

[gopiscrap]

26. Rmoney is a piece of shit!

[riverwalker]

27. selling out his own country

here's the deal Mitt. We give you millions, you promise to attack Iran, or allow us to bomb and then you send in thousands of your poor cannon fodder 99% to "assist" us (of course, all of your kin are except, as usual).
Basically, your citizens are our mercenaries, except instead of paying them, we pay you.
That's how it's done, that's the deal.