<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">CORRECTION . . .</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">No charges have been filed against Romney, BUT the United Auto Workers and several other investigations have requested a federal investigation of Mitt Romney's financial disclosures.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">As posted by Snopes at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.snopes.com/politics/romney/ethics.asp">http://www.snopes.com/politics/romney/ethics.asp</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"> <br></span>My apologies for the initial in accuracy.</div><div> <br><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Seeya at the polls, Moscow, because . . .</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">"Moscow Cares"</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."</div><div><br></div><div>- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br>On Nov 5, 2012, at 12:41 PM, Tom Hansen <<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of AllVoices (San Francisco, Calif.) at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://tinyurl.com/b6jzyvn">http://tinyurl.com/b6jzyvn</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-------------------------------------</div><div><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; position: relative; width: 604px; "></p><h1 class="eventTitle" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 610px; overflow: hidden; clear: both; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mitt Romney faces ethics charges for auto bailout profiteering</span></font></h1><p></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; position: relative; width: 604px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On Monday, <span id="person_link_36" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; "><a target="_blank" rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.allvoices.com/people/Mitt_Romney" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; ">Mitt Romney</a></span> is expected to face charges for ethics violations and profiteering with regard to his involvement with the 2009 government bailout of the auto industry.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; position: relative; width: 604px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“A coalition of community, labor and good government organizations is calling on the U.S. Office of Government Ethics to investigate presidential candidate Mitt Romney for noncompliance with the Ethics in Government Act and compel him to either disclose his investments or divest them,” according to the <a target="_blank" rel="external nofollow" href="http://uaw.org/articles/unions-good-government-groups-file-ethics-complaint-against-romney-failing-disclose-big-aut" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; ">United Auto Workers Union</a>, who requested the charges.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; position: relative; width: 604px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">An investigative report from <a target="_blank" rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.thenation.com/print/article/170644/mitt-romneys-bailout-bonanza" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; ">The Nation found</a> that Mitt Romney and his wife Ann, “personally gained at least $15.3 million from the bailout—and a few of Romney’s most important <span id="person_link_3234" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; "><a target="_blank" rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.allvoices.com/people/Wall_Street" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; ">Wall Street</a></span> donors made more than $4 billion. Their gains, and the Romney’s, were astronomical—more than 3,000 percent on their investment.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; position: relative; width: 604px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Romney profits came from Adelphi, a former parts supplier of the Delco division of General Motors. Adelphi was not technically supposed to be included in the federal bailout money given to the auto industry. But since neither GM nor Chrysler could survive without parts from Adelphi, $12.9 million in federal bailout money was<a target="_blank" rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/02/1154142/-USA-Today-Op-Ed-Romney-Partners-Ran-Extortion-Racket" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; ">demanded by investors</a> and eventually diverted to hedge funds that Mitt and Ann Romney bought into.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; position: relative; width: 604px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Romney did not disclose his windfall profits from Delphi in his June 1, 2012, Public Financial Disclosure Report to the office of Government Ethics, “because he did not disclose the underlying holdings of his private equity and limited partnership funds,” according to <a target="_blank" rel="external nofollow" href="http://uaw.org/articles/unions-good-government-groups-file-ethics-complaint-against-romney-failing-disclose-big-aut" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; ">the UAW</a>.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; position: relative; width: 604px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">With the UAW charges coming to light, the reason for Mitt Romney’s hiden tax returns becomes more apparent and more important as he seeks the presidency.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; position: relative; width: 604px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mr. Romney’s refusal to release his tax returns prior to 2010 may be linked to the UAW’s allegations that Mitt and Ann Romney may be tied to ethics violations and profiteering in the 2009 federal auto company bailouts.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; position: relative; width: 604px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By the time Romney and Adelphi’s other investors were done, the company had been stripped of all its union workers and pension funds, and 80 percent of Adelphi’s jobs were shipped to China.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; position: relative; width: 604px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The <a target="_blank" rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/01/mitt-romney-ethics-complaint-uaw-auto-bailout_n_2056941.html?utm_hp_ref=business" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; ">Huffington Post</a> said, “The allegations are ironic given that Romney has been a staunch critic of the auto bailout. Romney called for the government to<a target="_blank" rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/opinion/19romney.html?_r=0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; "> let the auto industry go bankrupt in an op-ed </a>in The New York Times in 2008. The Romney campaign also <a target="_blank" rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/29/romney-jeep-ad_n_2039898.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; ">released a misleading ad</a> in October that claims Chrysler has moved all production of Jeeps to China following the auto bailout.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; position: relative; width: 604px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In an <a target="_blank" rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2012/10/31/mitt-romney-jeep-chrysler-uaw/1672501/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; ">USA Today Op-Ed</a>, UAW president Bob King said, “Mitt Romney and his partners made a killing on the GM bankruptcy by gaining control of bankrupt parts supplier Delphi, then threatening to withhold components critical to the production of GM vehicles. Romney's business partners were willing to force GM into liquidation and cause a national economic calamity unless they got more money…”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; position: relative; width: 604px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“This is the real Romney... A man who lies about Chrysler moving jobs to China, when his history at Bain Capital, the private equity firm he founded, shows that he has invested in Chinese factories where workers are grossly exploited. Romney won't even act to stop the Sensata factory in Illinois, in which he is an investor, from closing the doors and moving to China the day before the election.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; position: relative; width: 604px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">With just days to go before Election Day, it’s hard to know if this will affect the results. But it could make a difference if Romney wins and he is found guilty of felony extortion and profiteering.</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-------------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya at the polls, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares"</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."</div><div><br></div><div>- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div><span>=======================================================</span><br><span> List services made available by First Step Internet,</span><br><span> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.</span><br><span> <a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a></span><br><span> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a></span><br><span>=======================================================</span></div></blockquote></body></html>