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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRomneyland 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:
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:
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
(269,278 posts)Not his orders either?
ProSense
(116,464 posts)also not responsible "retroactively" for the documents he signed.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)spanone
(135,924 posts)librechik
(30,678 posts)just wondering...
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)although he hasn't quite displaced the Chimp yet in my most hateful feelings ... yet.
bunnies
(15,859 posts)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
(44,585 posts)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.
rocktivity