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SoCalDem

(103,856 posts)
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 06:34 PM Aug 2012

Mittens/Marriott & Porn

just another deliberate (yet lame) attempt to clean up his dirty/nasty money

Do these people know about Google?? and www.waybackmachine.org




http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2011/02/hotel_pornography

Hotel pornography
Marriott, Mitt Romney, and porn

Feb 5th 2011, 18:37 by N.B. | WASHINGTON, DC

THE HOTEL chain Marriott recently announced that it would cease selling "adult content"—ie, pornography—in its newer hotels. Anyone who knows a bit about the hotel business might find this move a bit confusing. After all, porn is still a moneymaker for chains like Marriott, which by some estimates was earning $175 per room, per year in smut peddling alone.

But there does seem to be a method to Marriott's madness. Politico's Ben Smith explains that Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts and a presumptive candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, recently left the Marriott board. The chain's owners are "longtime Romney supporters", Mr Smith notes. And social conservatives, apparently, hit Mr Romney hard on the porn "issue" during the ex-governor's 2008 campaign for the GOP nomination. (One critic called Mr Romney a "major pornographer.&quot So in some sense, Mr Smith argues, Marriott appears to be doing Mr Romney a "costly favor." Then again:

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Mittens/Marriott & Porn (Original Post) SoCalDem Aug 2012 OP
Mitt Romney flamingdem Aug 2012 #1
Once Mitt left, there was no market for porn... n/t malthaussen Aug 2012 #2
It looks like Romney was the board member keeping the porn active! hedgehog Aug 2012 #3
6 men in the Romney family SoCalDem Aug 2012 #4
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