Posted on 01/10/2009 4:40:52 PM PST by Colofornian
WASHINGTON -- Former Massachusetts governor and presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been reappointed to Marriott International's board of directors, the Bethesda, Md., hotel company announced Wednesday.
Romney, the former chief executive of Bain Capital, served on Marriott's board for 10 years before resigning to run for governor in 2002. He was also chief executive of the Salt Lake Winter Olympics Organizing Committee. At Marriott, he will chair a newly formed finance committee, overseeing the company's financial performance and how it spends money.
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The Marriott and Romney families, both devout Mormons, have been close friends for decades, and they have summer homes nearby each other on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire...Marriott family members and other company executives contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to Romney's recent presidential bid.
"It is a great privilege to be asked to rejoin the Marriott board and I look forward to serving once again in that capacity," Romney said. "Marriott became one of the world's leading hotel companies because of its emphasis on service, quality and innovation. That same spirit will keep the company thriving, even during challenging economic times."
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Although Romney has sent signals that he hopes to have a future in politics, his reappointment to Marriott's board will no doubt have tea-leaf watchers at the company wondering whether he is a candidate to replace Bill Marriott as chief executive...
(Excerpt) Read more at mormontimes.com ...
Hmm...Will Romney help end the Marriott's long-standing ties to being the porn industry? (He didn't before when he was on the Marriott board) The Marriott has tied itself to being the porn industry since at least 1990 when it began making $ from pay-per-view porn.
What's ironic in all this is what the same publisher (the Deseret News, which puts out the Mormon Times) said about Romney's connection to Marriott back in July 2007:
Pornography taints everything it touches. Mitt Romney should have understood that. So should the Marriott Corp. and other hotel owners who offer hard-core movies in hotel rooms.
Romney caught a bit of flack last week because he spent nearly 10 years on the Marriott board and yet never tried to reverse the company's policy of providing pornography on demand, something J.W. "Bill" Marriott Jr., defended in a 2000 letter as being economically important. The corporation controls only a few of the hotels with its name on them.
For a presidential candidate who has railed against pornography, this is not entirely insignificant. Even if the subject never came up at a board meeting, one can argue that at least part of the $25,000 plus stock he was paid annually for his board membership came from the money some hotel guests paid for access to the films.
Make no mistake about pornography's influence on society. A recent report from the American Psychological Association drew strong ties between pornography's pervasive influence and the "sexualization" of girls and women. This, the report said, has resulted in greater societal sexism; "fewer girls pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics; increased rates of sexual harassment and sexual violence; and an increased demand for child pornography."
Deseret News original source URL for Summer '07 article: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,680197653,00.html
Discussion about this topic led to three FREEP postings in July '07 (plus other references on multi-faceted Romney discussions in December '07 into Jan '08): http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1861290/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1860275/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1859880/posts
Romney is a RINO...another pretender conservative.
Sarahcuda, and perhaps Bobby Jindahl are our only hope in 2012
EXACTLY!! I didn’t know who Bobby Jindal was til the election too, and from what I have read about him, seems like a really great guy. He and Sarah would be a great combo, I think they would be unstoppable
Mitt: Standing for true conservative values, like cashing porn checks. Oh, he’s got financial experience all right...
Bobby Jindal is not natural born AFAIK. And the Obama thing at SCOTUS is not over yet.
Ping
Putting the religious debate aside for a moment, doesn't Mitt Romney's continuing track record of liberal activities when considered against his recent conservative rhetoric expose him as a political fraud?
This particular topic just might have the potential to unite the blindly loyal LDS crowd with the pro-porn libertine rabble. That would be something to see!
Governor Jindal was born in Baton Rouge in 1971 and is constitutionally eligible to be president.
Romney has a place on Lake Winnepesaukee in Wolfeboro, NH. The Marriotts also have a fancy place nearby. Not a coincidence, I’m sure. But I have no problem with either of them.
The Constitution has rules on eligibility for President? Who knew?
Are they perhaps inbred as well?
McCain seems to despise Romney. That speaks well of Romney.
You are just jealous.
(If this needs a tag seek help, toy sense of sarcasm and ridicule had been damaged...)
Strapped for cash, eh ????
USA has morphed slowly but surely into a land of dummies. Why else would they elect Zero who has never run anything in his life as an executive.
I would have felt much more confident in a Romney presidency to revive the economy. Buy hey, most people being dumb benefits me. How else can I have become so rich if I had to compete with more people smarter than me.
I am basing my investment decisions by counting on Zero to screw up the economy a lot more. Come 2013, and I hope to be laughing all the way to the bank. Those ultra short ETF’s are fantastic in this climate.
Romney, flush with cash from contributors, hands bloody
from attacks on Gov.Palin and her children and all the
other GOP candidates, no doubts schemes.
For a presidential candidate who has railed against pornography, this is not entirely insignificant. Even if the subject never came up at a board meeting, one can argue that at least part of the $25,000 plus stock he was paid annually for his board membership came from the money some hotel guests paid for access to the films.
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He is probably allowed a “bye” for the first time.
But...it will be “bye bye” if he doesn’t get rid of this policy for his second run.
But I have no problem with either of them.
Forget about Lake Winnepesaukee for just a moment. And even as we talk about Romney, could somebody please clue me in why the following linkage exists?
Wikipedia tells us: Marriott is currently serving as an Area Seventy and is a member of the LDS Church's Sixth Quorum of the Seventy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._W._Marriott,_Jr.
So, here we have a corporate procurer of the porn industry, who has ensured that his travel-porn industry rakes in millions of porn $ for both Marriott and the porn industry who supplies them with porn films. (What exactly is all that different between a man who rents a porn film from the adult bookstore & a male traveler who rents a porn film from Marriott & Romney?)
Then Marriott turns around and tithes 10% of his porn profits to the LDS Church??? And then the LDS Church says, "Oh, I guess we need a porn industry rep as part of our hierarchical leadership!!!" ("That way, we can keep up our anti-female posture portrayed in the Book of Mormon...where specific women are hardly even mentioned...and given scant attention at that")
And Mormons just sit back and say, "Oh, this is all interesting????"
And Romney supporters? (What do they say?)
From earlier in the year: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/05/AR2007070501305.html
Romney Criticized for Hotel Pornography
By GLEN JOHNSON
The Associated Press
Thursday, July 5, 2007; 5:01 PM
“BOSTON — Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney, who rails against the “cesspool” of pornography, is being criticized by social conservatives who argue that he should have tried to halt hardcore hotel movie offerings during his near-decade on the Marriott board.....”
Looks like he wants to pick up where he left off.
I guess its true: there is business and there is personal. Porn is business.
Romney’s best “business” experience is at the federal teat.
Perhaps Romney senses the coming Porn Bailout is something
he and Marriot must take part in.
“Hmm...Will Romney help end the Marriott’s long-standing ties to being the porn industry?”
No. Porn being available in hotel rooms is not going away.
There are plenty of substantive things to dislike Romney for. Like his liberal record.
Last I heard Baton Rouge Louisiana was part of the U.S,
Building a war chest for 2012
Passing over Romney for Palin was the only good move McCain made in his campaign. I cast the ballot for Palin. Had it been Romney instead, there's no way I could or would have marked McCain in the ballot box. Been there, done that. Definition of insanity and all that.
It depends on the hotel/motel and the room. Omni doesn't carry porn. Travelodge in the UK dropped porn. I think I heard a reference once that cleanhotels.com has about 16,000 (?) individual motels & hotels who don't carry porn.
So what you say is at best a half-truth...and we all know half-truths fall under the "mistaken notion" or worse, "lie" categories. The fact is, in the U.S. alone, hundreds of thousands of individual rooms in the hotel/motel industry offers 0 PPV porn.
Amen bro, never understood the “Romney is a conservative” clowns.
Well you probably have to get rid of the wireless internets over there too really if you really wanted to make sure adults were not watching adult movies 0_-
Exactly.
Incorrect - Jindal’s parents are legal immigrants who entered this country well before he was born. He is just another of many first generation, legal immigrant’s child success stories our history as a nation holds.
Jindal is well worth consideration for either spot on a (Conservative) GOP ticket in 2012.
A.A.C.
sounds to me like Ann Coulter is right about the 19th amendment and you validate her theory. you undermine intelligent women everywhere.
Context here, tho, is the hotel industry taking a piece of the porn pie...Bill Marriott taking his share of this piece...Romney, too...and then both tithing their profit so it gets into the coffers of the LDS church.
That's amounts to Prostitutes-on-camera-for-the-Mormon-Jesus.
Um, sarcasm, it’s not just for breakfast...
Even with typos...
idk I am not a Mormon. Do they get irate about people watching nekkid people on TV?
Also,
“for-the-Mormon-Jesus”
?
Well, ask 'em.
But, again, you seem to miss the pt. 'Tis a huge difference between knowin other folks are time & $ investors in the porn industry...and between knowing your church leaders & political leaders are part of that very industry! (Rakin' in the dough because of it)
I gotta find a Mormon and ask them what there views are on the hotel pr0ns and nekkidness in general. That outta be fun.
And ya, I get the angle, I remember it from the primary (FR threads anyway)
I think he has every intention to get rid of porn at their hotels.
No way would he think he has a chance of winning in ‘12 if he is back in the business of defending porn.
Time for Mormons, I think, to resurrect the ghost of Brigham Young & bring back the "reformation" years of heavy church discipline of the mid-to-late 1850s 150 yrs later...(wait a minute, that was the era of the Mountain Meadow Massacre)
“-what there views”-
“there views”
“there”
That’s just awesome happi.
Placemark
>>”Bobby Jindal is not natural born...”<<
It took me 10 seconds to do a Google search. He was born in Baton Rouge, LA. Try not spouting off before knowing the facts, newbie.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2010733/bio
>>”That’s amounts to Prostitutes-on-camera-for-the-Mormon-Jesus.”<<
Why do you hate Mormons so much? Do you fear what you don’t understand or are you just an a$$hole?
As to whether that makes them an a$$hole, guess it depends on which side you are on...
“Time for Mormons, I think, to resurrect the ghost of Brigham Young & bring back the “reformation” years of heavy church discipline of the mid-to-late 1850s 150 yrs later...”
C: You have developed a tremendous talent for tangents. I mean, I got to hand it to you. You post the article about Romney joining the Marriott board, and before you know it your post morphed that into mentioning the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Even for you that is quite the stretch.
Mountain Meadows was obviously the point of the article wasn’t it? Anybody could have seen it.
Atta boy.
If I was the suspicious type I would think you posted it with the sole purpose to remind FR about the endless crimes, sins, faults, and idiocy of Mormons and the Mormon church. (all catalogued and defined by you)
“Time for Mormons, I think, to resurrect... “
Since you are prone to give Mormons advice how bout some advice from me to you. Don’t give Mormons advice. /irony/
Kind of like when the MSM give the GOP advice. I just love it.
I find Porn less offensive than violence. I avoid both.
“They were raised Mormon, I think the point is they do understand them.
As to whether that makes them an a$$hole, guess it depends on which side you are on...”
e22: Why not let Colofornian answer for himself?
Sometimes reminds me of WWF tag-team wrestling.
By the way, which side are you on and why?
What is the Sarahcuda’s position on unwed teen pregnancy?
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