Romney staff spent nearly $100,000 to hide records

[NJMaverick]

What is Mitt hiding this time?

Quote:(Reuters) - Mitt Romney spent nearly $100,000 in state funds to replace computers in his office at the end of his term as governor of Massachusetts in 2007 as part of an unprecedented effort to keep his records secret, Reuters has learned.

The move during the final weeks of Romney's administration was legal but unusual for a departing governor, Massachusetts officials say.

The effort to purge the records was made a few months before Romney launched an unsuccessful campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. He is again competing for the party's nomination, this time to challenge Barack Obama for the presidency in 2012.

Five weeks before the first contests in Iowa, Romney has seen his position as frontrunner among Republican presidential candidates whittled away in the polls as rival Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House of Representatives, has gained ground.

When Romney left the governorship of Massachusetts, 11 of his aides bought the hard drives of their state-issued computers to keep for themselves. Also before he left office, the governor's staff had emails and other electronic communications by Romney's administration wiped from state servers, state officials say.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/0...0X20111206

[jaxx]

And now we are finding that Willard also destroyed records in his Olympic run for the money. Trustworthy? Hell no.

[janedrake]

And yet, he attempted to call out Pres. Obama on the topic of openness and transparency. Romney really is a piece of work.

[Treestar]

They would never let Obama get away with something like that. The M$M is stupid. And they accuse Obama of spending money to defend releasing records, falsely, as it turns out. What hypocrites. Racists hypocrites. Mittwit better not have a single word to say about any record about or by Obama.