What Is Mitt Hidiing?

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The guy definitely doesn't want anything about the way he does business, or pay taxes, revealed. Why?

What is, or did, he do that he doesn't want the public to know about?

Here's an informative piece on the latest example of non-transparency.

Mitt Romney promised “complete transparency” when he took charge of the scandal-plagued Salt Lake City Olympics, a pledge that included access to his own correspondence and plans for an extensive public archive of documents related to the Games.

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 staff member 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.”

Sure...the Olympics was a private, non-profit organization that wasn't required to release inner working documents. But, as stated, Romney did promise transparency. Since the federal goverment threw almost $350 million to him for the games, shouldn't we know how that was spent?

But Romney vowed that he and his committee would operate out in the open. Dubbed a “franchise player” by Utah’s Governor Mike Leavitt, Romney was charged with leading the comeback from a scandal in which some on the Salt Lake bid committee had quietly doled out cash payments to International Olympic Committee members during the host city selection process.

“Any time there has been a breach of trust by people at the top, that organization is going to be placed under a microscope, and that is appropriate,” Romney said at a news conference on Feb. 11, 1999, the day he was named chief executive of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee. “We will be viewed much more carefully than any other organizing committee, perhaps in the history of the Olympics, and we deserve to be so viewed. I believe we will come through with flying colors.”

We have evidence of another Romney lie...

“All of the documents inside our organization are available to the public,” Romney said in a speech to the National Press Club in 2000. “Simply submit a form saying which documents you want. For instance: ‘I want to see all the letters written by Mr. Romney to [then-IOC President Juan Antonio] Samaranch.’ You’ll get ’em all.”

And that didn't happen...

But letters between journalists and the organizing committee obtained by the Globe show reporters were sometimes denied access to records they believed were covered by the committee’s open documents policy. Only a week after Romney spoke to the National Press Club, the Utah chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists wrote a complaint to the committee.

What this all boils down to is this.

Romney is running for president based upon how he runs business. Yet his dealings while with Bain Capital are muddled; details of anything done are unavailable, and there's no real proof that Romney himself did a darn thing while there except sign papers.

He then left Bain, supposedly, and went to the Olympics, promising transparency and openness. And delivered neither. To this day, nobody knows where all the money went, what deals were made, or Romney's true role within the organization. Because all the papers have been destroyed.

Following the Olympics, Romney became governor of Massachusetts, again promising openness and transparency.

But, guess what? Before he left office, he destroyed the hard drives containing every single e-mail involving his office.

Why?

Finally, we have the issue with his tax returns. Unseen, with the exception of one year. Putting an end to a tradition started by his own father.


Romney is running for President. Four years ago, people were complaining that we knew nothing about Barack Obama. We know even less today about Mitt Romney.

A question for the board conservatives:

WHAT IS ROMNEY HIDING?