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Mitt Romney: Abortion Profiteer

POSTED BY: KWICKO
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Wednesday, July 4, 2012 2:32 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)





Seems Mitt was very much in favor of abortion when he was making millions off it.


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Earlier this year, Mitt Romney nearly landed in a politically perilous controversy when the Huffington Post reported that in 1999 the GOP presidential candidate had been part of an investment group that invested $75 million in Stericycle, a medical-waste disposal firm that has been attacked by anti-abortion groups for disposing aborted fetuses collected from family planning clinics. Coming during the heat of the GOP primaries, as Romney tried to sell South Carolina Republicans on his pro-life bona fides, the revelation had the potential to damage the candidate's reputation among values voters already suspicious of his shifting position on abortion.

But Bain Capital, the private equity firm Romney founded, tamped down the controversy. The company said Romney left the firm in February 1999 to run the troubled 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and likely had nothing to with the deal. The matter never became a campaign issue. But documents filed by Bain and Stericycle with the Securities and Exchange Commission—and obtained by Mother Jones—list Romney as an active participant in the investment. And this deal helped Stericycle, a company with a poor safety record, grow, while yielding tens of millions of dollars in profits for Romney and his partners. The documents—one of which was signed by Romney—also contradict the official account of Romney's exit from Bain.



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http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/romney-bain-abortion-steri
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Wednesday, July 4, 2012 2:42 AM

WHOZIT


So this means YOU'LL be supporting him now? God knows you libs love aborted fetuses and he showed how you can profit from it. Profit = taxes, we could have a dead fetus tax.

I hope Pirate News posts pictures of aborted fetuses all over this thread

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Wednesday, July 4, 2012 3:18 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by Kwicko:....an investment group that invested $75 million in Stericycle, a medical-waste disposal firm that has been attacked by anti-abortion groups for disposing aborted fetuses collected from family planning clinics.


The real crime is that anything was "disposed" of....

That's the sound of a sextillion stem cells dying off......

I wonder how many dentists would be put out of business if I could get some of that dead-baby matter injected into my gums?

Seriously....

My teeth are straight as an arrow after the braces, but gums seem to be lacking in the "regeneration" department. My mom's family suffers from both gum and oral bone degenerative diseases. At least my mom had awesome insurance. I'll be eating baby food by the time I'm 50.


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Wednesday, July 4, 2012 5:36 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Yeah, I caught that one. Too bad they won't make an issue of it in the campaign...the ultra-right already doesn't like him that much, they definitely wouldn't like THIS! But most of them will never hear about it and most of those who DO will dismiss it as left-wing propaganda. That's how things work these days, unfortunately--the lies get through, but the truth rarely does!


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Wednesday, July 4, 2012 6:18 AM

WHOZIT


Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:

Originally posted by Kwicko:....an investment group that invested $75 million in Stericycle, a medical-waste disposal firm that has been attacked by anti-abortion groups for disposing aborted fetuses collected from family planning clinics.


The real crime is that anything was "disposed" of....

That's the sound of a sextillion stem cells dying off......

I wonder how many dentists would be put out of business if I could get some of that dead-baby matter injected into my gums?

Seriously....

My teeth are straight as an arrow after the braces, but gums seem to be lacking in the "regeneration" department. My mom's family suffers from both gum and oral bone degenerative diseases. At least my mom had awesome insurance. I'll be eating baby food by the time I'm 50.




I love the way you libs think, lets recycle aborted fetuses. BRILLIANT!

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Wednesday, July 4, 2012 6:52 AM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


"... but gums seem to be lacking in the "regeneration" department."

Smoking doesn't help. Look up smoking and gum disease.


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Thursday, July 5, 2012 8:44 AM

FREMDFIRMA



About fuckin time, they've only been handed that data sixteen times and more....
One can hope that in their abject cowardice, the media can cuddle together and distribute all the skeletons in Romneys closets across em since they don't seem to have enough of a pair between them to throw down for real.

This ain't even the half of it.
The guy is seriously vile, and if you take a good close look at some of Bain Capitals OTHER shellgames and investments, that will become even more clear.

-Frem

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Thursday, July 5, 2012 10:39 AM

BYTEMITE


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The company said Romney left the firm in February 1999 to run the troubled 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and likely had nothing to with the deal.


I hate hearing that line over and over. What saved the Salt Lake City olympics is that after the scandal we had the largest group of olympics volunteers ever sign up. But that always gets glossed over for political reasons. :( Just once I'd like to hear Mitt give the people of Salt Lake City some credit for pulling together like they did, but it ain't ever happening.

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Thursday, July 5, 2012 10:45 AM

BYTEMITE


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I love the way you libs think, lets recycle aborted fetuses. BRILLIANT!


Well... They are, technically, already dead, not much else anyone can do with them. On the other hand, there's probably a difference between harvesting some stem cells and cannibalizing a group of humans for parts... The later one probably sets a bad precedence.

I don't like Mitt, and I'll believe just about anything anyone says about the guy. I think he doesn't have any compunctions or or any limit on ruthless.

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Thursday, July 5, 2012 2:44 PM

RIONAEIRE

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I was 16 and I don't remember anything being bad about the 02 Olympics, I love the Olympics BTW and can't wait for the 27th!

I have Kathy Bates on speed dial, mwa ha ha ha (in exaggeratedly evil voice)

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Friday, July 6, 2012 6:07 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by whozit:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:

Originally posted by Kwicko:....an investment group that invested $75 million in Stericycle, a medical-waste disposal firm that has been attacked by anti-abortion groups for disposing aborted fetuses collected from family planning clinics.


The real crime is that anything was "disposed" of....

That's the sound of a sextillion stem cells dying off......

I wonder how many dentists would be put out of business if I could get some of that dead-baby matter injected into my gums?

Seriously....

My teeth are straight as an arrow after the braces, but gums seem to be lacking in the "regeneration" department. My mom's family suffers from both gum and oral bone degenerative diseases. At least my mom had awesome insurance. I'll be eating baby food by the time I'm 50.

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I love the way you libs think, lets recycle aborted fetuses. BRILLIANT!




Awwwwww.... shucks!

See Kwick and Niki????? Any way I look at it I lose.....

Now I'm a "lib". That makes us Eskimo Siblings.....

Don't hate me because I sit on the fence and defecate on both sides of it.


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