old stuff on Romney

[amborin]

i'm trying to dig up info on romney. this is old stuff that everyone is probably already familiar with. also, it may or may not be verified. if anyone has time and inclination, perhaps you can dig further. this is what i have so far, and i will keep looking.

Mitt Romney's Driving Killed Leola Anderson. His Cover-Up Tale is Proved Dishonest

July 2012 daily kos

This is a complicated diary. If you read it, please expect to take some extra time. There's a ton of evidence: the accident, identifying and finding the other driver, analyzing slanders, a forgery, and then dealing with a cover-up scheme that is reminiscent of the 1970s Watergate scandal.
The story begins in 1968 with Mitt Romney causing a head-on collision at Beaulac, France. He failed to accommodate obstructed vision and drove head-on into a Left Turn lane.
Mrs. Leola Anderson was killed and several others were injured. The next morning Mitt Romney lied to a reporter about who was responsible. A cover-up conspiracy ensued that unfolded with three distinct phases. Mitt Romney has been depicted over the years as a blameless victim in the accident while he and his supporters shift blame to a Catholic priest.
Big time professional media have been spoofed. The authorized biography by Michael Kranish and Scott Helman titled "The Real Romney" is polluted with intentional disinformation. Serialization of this book in the Boston Globe became a propaganda tool, freeing up Mr. Romney to run for President of the United States.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/17/1110907/-Mitt-Romney-s-Driving-Killed-Leola-Anderson-His-Cover-Up-Tale-is-Proved-Dishonest
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Romney’s ’02 Olympics short on transparency
Despite pledge, records destroyed
By Christopher Rowland and Callum Borchers
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/articles/2012/07/24/after_romney_pledged_transparent_olympics_key_documents_were_destroyed/
WASHINGTON — 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 staffer 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.”
According to Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul, “Mitt Romney resigned from SLOC in early 2002 to run for governor of Massachusetts and was not involved in the decision-making regarding the final disposition of records.”
Romney and the Salt Lake Organizing Committee had no legal obligation to preserve their records or make them public, even though the state paid $59 million, and the federal government spent $342 million on the Games and contributed roughly $1 billion more in indirect aid for transportation projects and other capital improvements in the Salt Lake region.
Like other Olympics, the 2002 Winter Games were managed not by a public entity but by a private, nonprofit corporation that was exempt from public records laws.
Earlier Olympic organizing committees, too, had destroyed internal documents. Organizers of the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan, burned records of their bid to host the Olympics — a move widely believed to have covered up bribery.
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.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

1. I wonder if Romney had a valid driver's license in France when he drove that car

I spent a year in France in 1968 and I know it's about ten times harder to pass a French driving test than it is in the United States. If he had a U.S driver's license he could have perhaps obtained an international driver's permit that tourists apply for during short stays. But I believe they are only valid for a short period, like maybe three months. If he was living in France, I believe the law would have required him to pass their test. European countries like France have a lot more specialized traffic signs than the U.S. and even the placement of their stop lights can be different and confusing. Rules about NEVER passing a car on the right, even in multi-lane roads or ALWAYS having to give priority to cross traffic on the right (when there's no traffic sign) is routine over there, whereas a lot of Americans don't drive that way.

[StarryNite]

2. His history is important...

the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

[upi402]

3. Romney; all the conscience of a Ted Bundy

and nearly as loopy as Charlie Manson.

Romney looks people in the eye and says the opposite of what he said weeks prior -ON TAPE- and doesn't even blink.
Does he think it's true? Or is he void on conscience?