Hide the Ball: Romney's Long History of Hiding

[jaxx]

Hide the Ball: Romney's Long History of Hiding His Exorbitant, but Questionable, Business Practices
Thursday, 26 July 2012 11:16 By Dina Rasor and Jason Leopold, Truthout |

How is it possible that, for two decades now, Mitt Romney has successfully avoided revealing any details about his vast wealth, has been able to manipulate and stash wealth overseas with no public accountability, has not been held to account for his complete lack of transparency, has painted himself as a creator of thousands of jobs even though the public record shows business decisions he presided over resulted in the loss of jobs because of mass wealth being scooped out of the assets of these same companies?

Since he launched his political career in the mid-1990s, through three previous campaigns, Romney has faced the same exact questions that he is now facing as a candidate for the highest office in the land and, just as he is doing now, he has not been forthcoming in his responses.

<..> If there were more transparency with the information on his business life, the public could be surer that it was all square and legal and not have to take his word for it. With all this secrecy in his life, could he pass a security clearance check or a Congressional confirmation hearing? No Congress would pass him for a presidential appointment or give him a special access security clearance with this much secrecy and especially with all these hints of undisclosed foreign money.

<..> Besides the obvious secrecy and decades-long attempts at hiding the ball, there is a unique history of him doing this in all his campaigns for public life with not enough exposure of his past ruses. We need a version of journalism "Ground Hog Day," with constant exposure in the next four months by the mainstream media and Internet news sites about Romney's ruses. It will not be seen as credible to the public if they only hear about these decades-long problems in a campaign ad from the Obama campaign. The media needs to continually dig and the public need to repeatedly insist that Romney releases at least as many records as Obama did (ten years) in his campaign or honor the memory of his father and release 12 year of taxes.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10542-hid...-practices

Good piece with a lot of info and a lot of Willard hiding his practices.

[Willinois]

I wouldn't count on the press investigating Romney's past and reporting on it.

Remember the press reaction to Scott Lee Cohen after he won the primary for Illinois Lt. Governor? They blamed the candidates for not making more noise about Cohen! As if the press has no responsibility to report facts independently. They don't do investigative journalism. They do "he said, she said" stories.

Anyway, I've always been curious about Romney's work in South America that he used to brag about. There's an ugly history of what U.S. corporations have done south of the border. Child labor. Slave wages. Murdered union organizers. Did any of that happen at companies Romney was involved with?