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Wednesday, July 15, 2015

#JadeHelm ~ Russians, Anthrax and a Doomsday Plane - Update: Bluebell Ice Cream Trucks

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The Summer of Jade Helm Begins
Texans fear #JadeHelm15 Takeover

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And so it begins . . . #JadeHelm15, the military operation that is making heads explode all over the Southwest. I believe the Military may be doing a psy-op on people like Alex Jones and his listeners to bring the real loonies out into the open. It's working!

The Jade Helm 16 Information Facebook has 25,000 followers.
Operation Jade Helm and Beyond has 60,000 followers
Jade Helm 15 Martial Law has 12,000 followers.

And that's only a fraction of the crazy out there.







According to one Facebook, Russia wants to save Texans from the Evil Obama Invasion, and they are working with China to mount their own invasion from the south. No, really! I saw it on the Internet!

More news folks- This is not disinformation.. A portion of the Black Sea fleet is in the Atlantic a couple miles from us waters..the rest is refueling and taking on drinking water near Spain and headed this way.. The Russian "carrier killer" loaded with nuclear weapons is leading the pack with 10 subs and a sub wreckage recovery vessel. And unknown to the main of US citizens, Russian aircraft have been doing recon on the West Coast and Alaska.
This is in direct response to the US/NATO occupation of the Black Sea during Russia's problems with Crimea. Russia is not 100% for the people but it has stated it will back and protect any states deciding to leave the US Obama regime... That is why the Armed Forces haven't been prepping 100% for overtaking US citizens for it's under the idea of Russian naval and China/Mexico coming up from the south to help Texas and move north..
~ Jade Helm 15 Information Facebook

As an American how do we know the people controlling this site are American, and have the best interest of Americans. Are you just Russians and Chinness playing war of the world's on Facebook? If we can't trust our own troops how can we trust a random Facebook page who has all this proof with no proof?
~ Hillbilly B. on Jade Helm 15 Information Facebook

There's also the scary "Doomsday Plane" flying around - that must mean it's Doomsday, right?





Wake Up 'Merica!!!!!!

New World Order! I try to educate people on this all the time but they think I'm crazy. Keep living in your bubbles people. The government tries to dumb us down by feeding the media with focus on racial wars, confederate flag drama, same sex marriage and the obvious technology, new cell phones and "pretty" new electronics you can have. If everyone focuses on all that nonsense, then they are not paying attention to the shady things the government is really up to!! WAKE UP AMERICA!
~ Angie on Jade Helm 15 Information Facebook

It could be the Anthrax spread by spread by evil (Bluebell) Ice Cream Trucks or something. Get dibs on a plastic coffin now!

The Lord gave me a vision of Jade Helm and I saw military vehicles blocking the streets in major cities so that no one can come in or go out. I was wondering why they were blocking the streets and it came in my spirit that it was a quarantine. And that would be caused by some sort of disease outbreak, then I heard the word "Anthrax". So I looked it up and found out it is the best choice for biological warfare because its easy to produce and the spores can survive just about anything. It can survive extreme cold, extreme heat. It can be spread through the air, like from an airplane, through the water and can grow in the dirt on land. Just a small amount can kill thousands of people.
Then I thought about the plastic coffins they are stockpiling in which I heard would most likely be used in the case of disease and pestilence. It explains the ice cream trucks and the incinerator trucks and may even explain why there is no water in my dream and why so many people are saying the water will be poisoned because It will become contaminated. I have read that even boiling the water will not kill the spores. Jade Helm starts July 15th and runs through september 15th so it could be anytime when it is done, however there are some indications that the time for the rapture must be now.
~ Visionary Carole S. on Operation Jade Helm and Beyond

Update: Apparently Evil Forces put the Texas-based Bluebell Ice Cream company out of business to steal their trucks for #JadeHelm.







Or it's just about putting Americans in Concentration Camps - haven't we been saying that for nearly 8 years? It has to come true someday or else . . . we might be . . . you know . . . CRAZY!

The ultimate goal of Jade Helm is to train troops to control American citizens: Rounding them up, putting them in camps, isolating troublemakers, etc.
In this exercise, Americans are the enemy.
Are there still folks who do not see this?
~ T-Bone Texan on Free Republic

It's sad when your called a nut or a conspiracy loony just for demanding transparency from the worst government this country has ever seen.
~ Joel G. on Jade Helm 15 Martial Law Facebook

I have absolutely no trust for our current government....I have wondered if all of this talk about flags, etc. (i.e. Confederate Flag, Confederate Monuments) is just a diversion to keep Jade Helm out of the news.
~ William M. on Operation Jade Helm and Beyond Facebook

Body bags, mobile morgues, concrete tombs, body disposal units, CDC warning of epidemic, mass supplies of ammuntion, missiles, missile launchers, military tanks, foreign soldiers. Nah nothing going on here go drink your koolaid.
~ Norma B. on Operation Jade Helm and Beyond Facebook







Above all, Keep Obama Off Mah Land!!!

My only real concern is that if they are traveling through, 'both public and private land,' are they going to do so by cutting the fence on my property? Yes, I realize this article only says public land, but what the govt. has said is both public and private... There just isn't THAT much public land in Texas. Is an Abrams going to roll through my ranch/let all of my exotics out? Who'll pay for the tens of thousands of dollars that they're worth? I know my ranch house gets used as a waypoint (or target maybe) for T-38 training jets, so it's 100% conceivable that it'd be included in this.
~ comment by JWP on the Houston Chronicle

If they maneuver through my private property, you will read about me in the papers the next day.
~ jy8z on Free Republic

Oh, it's just generally due to Obama. Just everything!

So much for the First Amendment under imam Barack Hussein Obama!
. . . cutting off the press seems to me to be a smoke screen for what is really going on behind the scenes. And make no mistake, Barack Hussein Obama knows exactly what he's doing, but like his birth certificate, Social Security number and Selective Service form, he will not allow the truth to come to light. He is, therefore, guilty of hypocrisy when he tells others, "The only people that don't want to disclose the truth, are people with something to hide."
~ Tim Brown on EagleRising.com

Under normal circumstances this would be just another summer military exercise, granted much larger than normal. But these are not normal times with the current occupant of the White House and with the current government we have in Washington D.C. Obama hates America and is doing everything in his power and many things illegally and outside his power to destroy her (see "fundamentally transform"). And unfortunately he is succeeding. So real Americans don't trust Obama any further than they can throw an Army tank. They have a right to be suspicious of this guy and his motives. So the lefties out their can make fun of real Americans all they want, makes no difference to me. But Americans better watch out for this guy. He's not done yet.
~ GrandpaTX on the Houston Chronicle








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Tuesday, July 7, 2015

The Summer of #JadeHelm15 Begins

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Texans Fear #JadeHelm15 Invasion

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I am looking forward to the Jade Helm 15 invasion of the Southwest by the U.S. Military - the lights, the sounds, the smell of Tea Party sweat, the sounds of responsible gun owners shooting themselves in the feet, the twitter meltdowns and shrieks about impending doom and total batsh*t freakouts and Obama insults. I honestly cannot wait - I need more popcorn!

It's supposed to start July 15 in some of the southwestern states.

Governor Greg Abbott of Texas had a nice idea back in April 2015: he's going to call out the National Guard to keep an eye on the U.S. Military as they start their military operations in Texas .... What's that you say? The National Guard IS part of the U.S. Military? Oh pish-tosh, that means nothing in Texas when faced with an outside invasion from 'Merica.... What's that? Texas IS America? What???

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Thursday, May 7, 2015

Holy Chinooks! Texans Fear #JadeHelm15 Takeover

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In the scary world of right-wing Obama-hating "alternative news" anything can become a conspiracy theory. But when there's a hint of the federal military being involved, then the Bizarro World of Alex Jones goes into full gimble-lock and they spin away into outer space like Apollo 13.

A bunch of loonies in Texas fear that Evil Emperor Obama has finally decided to "invade Texas" and start locking people into concentration camps so he can have a third term. Of course, they've been predicting this since 2008 when Obama was elected President, because what else would a Muslin Bolshevik Facist Socialist BLACK Kenyan Dictator do but herd white people around like a bunch of Cliven Bundy's cows? Git along little dogies!

From Alex Jones Info Wars
“Jade Helm is a challenging eight-week joint military and Interagency (IA) Unconventional Warfare (UW) exercise conducted throughout Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado,” according to an unclassified military document announcing the training drill, which runs from July 15 through September 15.

Multiple branches of the US military, including Green Berets, Navy Seals, and the 82nd Airborne Division, will participate in the 8-week long exercise, which may result in “increased aircraft in the area at night.”

Troops will be tasked with honing advanced skills in “large areas of undeveloped land with low population densities,” and will work alongside “civilians to gain their trust and an understanding of the issues.”

The exercise, in which some participants will be “wearing civilian clothes and driving civilian vehicles,” lists Texas and Utah as “hostile” territory.


I have no problem with Utah and Texas being listed as "hostile." After all, the "Sovereign Citizens" in those states constantly threaten to secede or disobey the government. In fact, Jade Helm 15 could simply be an experiment to see just how much these nutjobs hate their country and want to shoot at our own military. What better way to teach Texas a lesson than to send in the troops for "exercises" with black helicopters just to drive them out of their minds and show them who is in control.

Now I sound like a conspiracy theorist, but seriously folks, the real pro is Greg Abbott, Governor and Top Clown of Texas. Now maybe he was just pandering to the Tea Party Libertarians, or maybe he is just crazy, but this looks really bad for Texas. Stop doing this stuff!

From the Austin-American Stateman:
Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday directed the Texas State Guard to monitor Operation Jade Helm 15 to make sure that Texans’ “safety, constitutional rights, private property rights and civil liberties will not be infringed.”
. . . it came amid concerns fueled by Texas talk radio host Alex Jones and his website, Infowars.com, that the military exercise might actually be a precursor to martial law.
“BREAKING! Texas Gov. To Send State Guard To Monitor #JadeHelm Exercise,” Jones tweeted on the governor’s announcement.
Concerns about Jade Helm 15 spilled over Monday night at packed special meeting of the Bastrop County Commissioners Court, where commissioners found themselves facing hostile questions for agreeing to let U.S. military forces train on private property in rural areas of the county this summer as part of the exercise.

After the Military calmly explained that is was just a military exercise, he rolled back the cray-cray:

From Statesmen:
"We are playing a pivotal role of government and that is to provide information for people who have questions,” Abbott said. “It is clear that people in Bastrop had questions, it’s clear from the questions I have received in my office that people have questions about it, and as governor and as government, I think we have an obligation to answer questions of citizens. And, by us working with the Special Operations Forces, we are able to provide information to citizens who were concerned about it.”

Rick Perry also put in his 2 cents worth, sounding less crazy than Abbott at least: "Trust the Military."
I think if you're one of these guys it’s okay to question your government — I do it on a pretty regular basis. The military's something else. "You know, I think our military is quite trustworthy. Civilian leadership – you can always question that, but not the men and women in uniform.




Then of course there is Louie Gohmert, another Texas Rodeo Clown. He just doesn't like that whole "hostile" label on Texas. Even if they sound hostile every day. And stupid. And hostile.

Gohmert via Vox
Once I observed the map depicting ‘hostile,' ‘permissive,' and ‘uncertain' states and locations, I was rather appalled that the hostile areas amazingly have a Republican majority, ‘cling to their guns and religion,' and believe in the sanctity of the United States Constitution. When the federal government begins, even in practice, games or exercises, to consider any U.S. city or state in 'hostile' control and trying to retake it, the message becomes extremely calloused and suspicious.


The Jade Helm operation could really "heat-up" the Southwest this summer as Alex Jones has meltdowns and Rick Perry probably goes back to the border and Greg Abbott hides in the Gov's mansion shaking in his boots and Gohmert remains Gohmert. So make some popcorn while you wait for the black helicopters:

OMG, Chinook Helicopters in Texas and Kansas!
(Well, guess what, I've seen these in TN also.
It's the National Guard having weekend maneuvers. Doh.)



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Saturday, May 10, 2014

#BundyRanch Militia Moves To Utah

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Bye-Bye Bundy
Wingnuts Declare Victory as Feds Leave Bundy Ranch
Bundy Ranch Stand-Off in Nevada Attracts Militia

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The Militia members who flocked to Bundy Ranch a month ago made a spectacle of brandishing their firearms and pointing them at law enforcement. There are countless hours of video from Alec Jones's "Info Wars" on YouTube, as well as video from Fox News, CNN, NBC and local Nevada TV. The militia crowd cheered when the Bureau of Land Management pulled back and let some of Bundy's cattle go free, but maybe their celebration was premature. Justice is often delayed, but usually it comes back to bite people who threaten the government. Just because the Bureau of Land Management high-tailed it out of there that day doesn't mean this is over.

And some of these guys went so far as to threaten Senator Harry Reid with extreme bodily harm, which is also a no-no.

Don't poke the wolverine with a sharp stick, Harry,
unless you want your b*lls ripped off.
~ Mike Vanderboegh



Sorry, Posse Comitatus ~ you may have just shot yourself in the proverbial ass, or the b*lls or whatever body-part you are obsessing over today.

There was also the story that the Bundy Militia were stopping motorists near Bunkerville, Nevada, and asking people to see their official citizenship papers. Yeah, nothing wrong with that except ILLEGAL.

From Talking Points Memo
Rep. Steven Horsford (D-NV), who represents the area, sent the letter Sunday to Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie, asking him to investigate.

"I am writing to bring your attention to the ongoing situation in northeastern Clark County which has caused many of my constituents to fear for their safety," Horsford wrote. Residents in the area "have expressed concern over the continual presence of multiple out-of-state, armed militia groups that have remained in the community" since Bundy's dispute with the Bureau of Land Management came to a boil.

The militia, as reported by Horsford's constituents, "have set up checkpoints where residents are required to prove they live in the area before being allowed to pass," the letter said.

Here is one of the snipers interviewed at Bundy Ranch:



Yeah, he's a brave foot-soldier in the fight against the government, and he has no problem using children as human shields. What a guy! But now the FBI is investigating, so good luck with that.

From the Las Vegas Sun
Clark County sheriff's officials say they've been interviewed by the FBI as part of an investigation into armed supporters of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy.
Assistant Sheriff Joe Lombardo tells KLAS-TV that federal agents are looking into the conduct of people who reportedly pointed guns at officers during a standoff at Bundy's ranch April 12.

More From 8 News Now Las Vegas
Last week, the I-Team talked with Metro officers who intervened to protect the lives of federal employees from the 400 or so Bundy supporters and armed militia members. Officers told the I-Team they feared for their lives that day because of the assembled firepower, and because many in the crowd had pointed weapons at officers, taunted them, told them they should be ready to die.

. . . FBI agents also spoke to an entire squad of Metro officers, who were on the scene to act as a buffer between the crowd and the BLM. Bundy supporters have insisted in emails and calls to 8 News NOW that no one in the crowd pointed weapons at BLM or Metro, but officers told the I-Team that is exactly what they saw, that many with guns set up behind women and children.
"It is not a rumor. When we first got out there and made a left to divide I-15, that is all you saw. You saw kids and women and horses in the backdrop and then men with guns, laying on the ground, in the back of pickup trucks. We're going, 'wow, this would never happen in Las Vegas,' But it was there. That is not a rumor. It is reality and I saw it with my own eyes," Metro Police Sgt. Tom Jenkins said.

Sgt. Jenkins has been interviewed by the FBI. A second squad is expected to be interviewed by week's end. The bureau does not confirm or deny the existence of any investigation but the I-Team have confirmed from multiple sources that a criminal investigation is underway.

It is illegal to point loaded weapons at federal agents, and most people know what would happen, if a suspect pointed a gun at a Metro officer in the Las Vegas valley.

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Funny thing - as soon as it was announced the other day that the FBI was investigating these guys, the gun nuts on Twitter started chirping that THEY were the victims, that the BLM was scary and had pulled guns on THEM - "So shut up you Libtards, don't you know the Militia is in our desert saving our Liberty?" Also, they ain't skeered of no FBI!!! It was all someone else's fault - the BLM, Harry Reid, Barry Obummer, and Benghazi - don't ever forget Benghazi!!!!!









Meanwhile, the Locals are ready
for the Militia to Leave



And the Militia is obliging for now, taking their act of defiance on the road - to Utah.

From Las Vegas Sun
Ryan Payne, a Montana resident who had been staying at the ranch for a month, said he drove eight hours to arrive in the eastern Utah town this morning. Three militia members from the ranch and a handful of people from a group called Citizens Action Network came to Utah, too, he said.
"This is where it’s happening Saturday,” he said.
They and others Saturday will be armed, he said, and ride ATVs into Recapture Canyon, an area the BLM declared off-limits to motorized vehicles in 2007. The ride is organized by San Juan County, Utah, Commissioner Phil Lyman.
Payne met Friday morning with the San Juan County, Utah, Sheriff Rick Eldridge. Afterward, he said he expects Saturday’s protest to be peaceful because Eldridge pledged to “protect us from the BLM.”

More from Mother Jones
This Saturday, angry residents of San Juan County, Utah, plan to illegally ride their ATVs through Utah's Recapture Canyon—an 11 mile-long stretch of federal land that is home to Native American archeological sites—because they don't think that the federal Bureau of Land Management should have designated that land off-limits to motor vehicles. The protest was meant to be a local affair. But on Thursday, Bundy, the rancher who wouldn't pay the feds grazing fees and sparked a gun-drenched showdown in Nevada, called on his supporters to join the anti-government off-roading event, Phil Taylor reported. Bundy, whose crusade against the federal government became tainted by his racist comments, is looking to spread the cause from cattle to cross-country cruising.

"We don't expect any violence," San Juan County Sheriff Rick Eldredge told the Denver Post last week. Others aren't so sure, especially since the out-of-staters in attendance could help rile things up—which is what happened during the Bundy stand-off. "This may blow up to be significantly more than they thought," Bill Boyle, a resident of San Juan and publisher of the San Juan Record newspaper told the Post. "I think there are those who would like everyone with an AK-47 to be here."

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From the Houston Chronicle
"This is where it's happening Saturday," Bundy backer Ryan Payne of Montana told the Las Vegas Sun. "This is a continuation of the Bundy affair."
. . . A 14-mile section of trail in the canyon is closed to motorized vehicles, BLM officials said, but there are more than 2,800 miles of trails open to them on public lands around Blanding.
Environmentalists and Native Americans criticized the protest ride, saying the ban is needed to preserve fragile artifacts. Mark Maryboy, a former Navajo Nation Council delegate, called it disappointing that the group had no respect for Native American culture.
"The American tradition of civil disobedience doesn't change the fact that the rule of law needs to mean something," Josh Ewing of the conservation group Friends of Cedar Mesa told The Tribune. "I'll be very disappointed in my government if it doesn't follow through on upholding the law."

Denver Post
. . . Juan Palma, Utah's director of the BLM, issued a less conciliatory statement.
"The BLM-Utah has not and will not authorize the proposed ride and will seek all appropriate civil and criminal penalties against anyone who uses a motorized vehicle within the closed area," Palma's statement read in part.

San Juan County, with more than 90 percent of its land public or belonging to the Navajo Nation, is a likely setting for another set-to.
It has long been a hotbed of far-right anger over federal intrusion into local affairs, especially after what were viewed locally as heavy-handed federal raids that rounded up dozens of longtime residents for artifact looting in the 1980s and in 2011.

San Juan County residents who support Saturday's protest ride identify themselves on their Facebook pages as fans of Bundy and guns-rights rocker Ted Nugent. They express hatred for President Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat.
BLM employees in San Juan County have had windows shot out of their homes and their yards torn up by ATVs in the middle of the night.









From Salt Lake Tribune
Under the watch of several horse-mounted sheriff’s deputies, some 50 ATVs carrying multiple riders, including children without helmets and militia members with weapons at the ready, motored across an invisible line in the dust where the canyon was off limits.
"We are here to keep the peace and safeguard the constitutional rights of everybody," said San Juan County Sheriff Rick Eldredge. "We don’t want to see clashes between citizens and clashes between BLM and militia. This is not going to be Bunkerville."
The sheriff was referring to BLM’s recent stand-off with armed supporters of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who has long refused to pay grazing fees. Bundy’s son, Ryan, joined the protest ride into Recapture Canyon.

The Militia members want to make it sound as if everything is just a peaceful ride in the desert, but just the other day a Bureau of Land Management employee told police he was accosted by a group of "hooded" men on a lonely road in Utah. Is this group part of the Bundy Militia? Are they targeting BLM employees? If so, the FBI needs to make their own round-up of these thugs quickly.


From the Southern Poverty Law Center - HateWatch
At first, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) livestock wrangler driving on Tuesday along Interstate 15 in Utah, about 260 miles from the scene of the Bundy Ranch standoff in Nevada, thought he was experiencing fairly standard road rage. But then it quickly escalated into a freeway stalking with masks and guns, and ended with a law enforcement manhunt.

According to the Salt Lake Tribune, the wrangler was pulling a load of burros and horses northbound on the freeway when a dark blue extended-cab Dodge pickup pulled up alongside him and a man gestured at him with a one-fingered salute. The wrangler eased up and let the men drive past him, then he continued on. Just after passing the town of Nephi, the men caught up to him again.

This time, they were wearing hoods. And they showed him a sign that read: “You Need to Die.” Then one of them pointed what appeared to be a Glock handgun at the wrangler.

As the wrangler again dropped back, he tried to get a license plate number. But it had been covered with duct tape.

. . . In response, Utah BLM employees began removing the agency’s decals from their vehicles as a “precaution,” according to Eric Reid, the wrangler’s supervisor at the BLM field office in Fillmore. “We’re toning things down.”
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Friday, September 27, 2013

Smackdown ~ Senator Bob Corker vs. Ted Cruz on Obamacare

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Ted Cruz Attempts to Filibuster Obamacare

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From Washington Post
The only thing separating them being a single Senate desk, Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) engaged in what Senate rules deem a "colloquy," but what most observers would call an old-style public airing of grievances.
At one point, Corker accused Cruz and Lee of turning Senate proceedings “into a show.” Cruz countered by questioning Corker’s loyalty to the Republican Party by siding with Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.)
The clash lasted roughly 10 minutes, with colleagues watching and cameras rolling. It exposed deep disagreements among Republicans over how they should proceed with the spending bill, which currently includes language defunding the new federal health-care law. But using procedural rules that allow him to make changes to the bill, Reid plans to amend the bill by restoring funding for the new federal health-care law.





































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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Whoopsy! Romney's Olympic Financial Records Destroyed


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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.
~ Mitt Romney on Feb. 11, 1999, the day he was named chief executive of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee

All of the documents inside our organization are available to the public. 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.
~ Mitt Romney in remarks to the National Press Club, circa 2000

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

I think they will have no answers. . . .
People suspect that we might have Mitt Romney information in there and that’s not an unreasonable expectation.. . .
~Elizabeth Rogers, curator of manuscripts at the University of Utah Marriott Library, quoted by the Salt Lake Tribune

Mitt didn’t have anything to do with any of those decisions. He was long gone, and it was really left up to the people left behind to decide what to keep and what not to keep.
~ Fraser Bullock, member of the Salk Lake City Planning Committee and former colleague of Romney's at Bain Capital, quoted in The Boston Globe

From ABC News
. . . some of the documents that may have shed the most light on Romney's stewardship of the Games were likely destroyed by Salt Lake Olympic officials, ABC News has learned.

The archivists involved in preparing the documents for public review told ABC News that financial documents, contracts, appointment calendars, emails and correspondence are likely not included in the 1,100 boxes of Olympic records, and will not be part of the collection that will ultimately be made public.

"We don't have that stuff," said Elizabeth Rogers, the manuscript curator at the University's Marriott Library. The decisions about what records to donate to the library were made by Olympics officials before they were shipped in 1,100 boxes to the university, she said. "That was done before we got it. I just know it wasn't a decision we made. Everything we have will be available."

The Romney campaign said it has made no effort to prevent the archive from being made public.

"Mitt Romney resigned from SLOC [the Salt Lake Organizing Committee] in early 2002 to run for governor of Massachusetts and was not involved in the decision-making regarding the final disposition of records," said Andrea Saul, a Romney spokesperson, in response to questions.


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Sports Illustrated article from 2001:
Snow Job Thanks to Utah politicians and the 2002 Olympics, a blizzard of federal money—a stunning $1.5 billion—has fallen on the state, enriching some already wealthy businessmen. Is this a great country or what? A millionaire developer wants a road built, the federal government supplies the cash to construct it. A billionaire ski-resort owner covets a choice piece of public land. No problem. The federal government arranges for him to have it. Some millionaire businessmen stand to profit nicely if the local highway network is vastly improved. Of course. The federal government provides the money. How can you get yours, you ask? Easy. Just help your hometown land the Olympics. Then, when no one's looking, persuade the federal government to pay for a good chunk of the Games, including virtually any project to which the magic word Olympics can be attached.
For the past few years, while attention was focused on the Great Olympic Bribery Scandal—in which Salt Lake City boosters dispensed as much as $7 million in gifts, travel, scholarships, medical care, jobs and other goodies to IOC members (and their relatives and companions) to ensure that Utah's capital city would be chosen to host the 2002 Winter Games—private and public interests have siphoned an estimated $1.5 billion out of the U.S. Treasury, all in the name of those same Olympics.
Two months before the Games, Utah has already walked away with the gold while setting records in four categories: Total federal handouts. The $1.5 billion in taxpayer dollars that Congress is pouring into Utah is (several) times the amount spent by lawmakers to support all seven Olympic Games held in the U.S. since 1904—combined. In inflation-adjusted dollars.
. . . This is not to say that the recipients are unappreciative. Mitt Romney, SLOC's president, has acknowledged the U.S. government's contribution by saying, "We couldn't have done it without them. These are America's Games."
Senator John McCain R-AZ back in 2000, objecting to the blank check funding of the 2002 Winter Olympics
"This is about a cocktail of fiscal irresponsibility made of Congressional pork barreling by unaccountable federal bureaucrats. . . . What this has turned into, what the Olympic Games, supposedly hosted and funded by Salt Lake City, which began in corruption and bribery, has now turned into an incredible pork barrel project for Salt Lake City and its environs. Not surprisingly, the GAO found that there was no effective mechanism for tracking federal funding and support to host cities.
. . . As outlined, most of the money taken from taxpayers to pay the bill for the SLC Olympic Games is going to be taken to build major highway and transit improvement projects, quote, "especially those critical to the success of the Olympic Games," unquote. This last phrase is vital to understanding the fleece game being played in Salt Lake City.
. . . There is a process. There is a process for authorization for these projects. They are conducted by the authorizing committees. Some of them may be worthwhile and necessary. Some of them may deserve to be authorized. Instead they are stuck into an appropriations bill without scrutiny . . . Those are my tax dollars, Mr. President, as well as the citizens of Utah's tax dollars....
In 2002, I went to Senator Bennett asking for some modest help. He's a member of the Appropriations Committee. I think he was thinking I might ask for 5-10 million, but we asked for several hundred million dollars in help. Everything that was needed was ultimately obtained.
~ Mitt Romney in remarks to the National Press Club, 2004 (clip in video below)

There is absolutely no question that the money would have been spent even if the Olympics had not come to Salt Lake City. It may not have been spent as wisely or as prudently as if we had not had the pressure of the Olympics.
~ Senator Bob Bennett, R-Utah, quoted by ABC News


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Sunday, June 24, 2012

Romney Right at Home Bundling with Donors in Lavish Chateau Retreat


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LA Times Story:
At a private retreat this weekend, major Romney campaign donors quaffed 1927 Port they'd brought in for the occasion, mingled in the lobby of a posh resort called the Chateaux at Silver Lake and watched an aerial display of Olympic ski jumpers.

Billed as a "senior leadership retreat," the three-day gathering in Deer Valley was a reward for the wealthy GOP donors who have fueled Romney's fundraising, giving at least $25,000 each or raising at least $100,000 by June 18. Many of the more than 700 who attended had donated much more.

. . . The retreat was closed to the media, in keeping with Romney's secrecy about who is raising money for his campaign. He has declined to release the names of bundlers, those who collect funds from others on behalf of the campaign. Romney was not seen in public except when he waved at reporters from his motorcade.

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