Posted on 02/22/2007 9:23:18 PM PST by EternalVigilance
The James Hartline Report
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(JHReport) Confirming what many other national conservative sources have been saying for months, the James Hartline Report has now uncovered new evidence which indicates that the pro-life "make-over" of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney is nothing more than a cover for an extremely radical and liberal philosophy.
A San Diego Republican Party operative recently contacted the James Hartline Report with a list of influential Romney supporters who are hosting a March 16, 2007 San Diego fundraiser for Romney's presidential campaign. After thoroughly investigating the backgrounds of a number of those who are hosting the Romney fundraiser in San Diego, the James Hartline Report has obtained information which may send political shockwaves throughout GOP circles and could permanently affect the outcome of the presidential race.
The following information is from the Romney fundraising invitation on March 16th which is being circulated via email to certain Republican Party members and other GOP insiders:
Host Committee
Friday, March 16, 2007
Manchester Grand Hyatt
America’s Cup Room
One Market Place, San Diego, California 92101
VIP Photo Reception 12:00 noon
Contribution: $2,300 per person
Luncheon 12:30 p.m.
Contribution: $1,000 per person
Save the Date: Friday, March 16, 2007
Paid for by Romney for President, Inc.
Host Committee
Daryl and Bob Allen * Linda and John Alexander, M.D.
Terry and Mike Armstrong * Sandy and Albert Bertha
Gigi and Ed Cramer * Chris Crane
Millie and Gunder * Creager Rebecca and James Davies, M.D.
Sheree and Frank Gaughan * Sue and Bob Giramma
Shelley and Jeff Hawkes * Robert Hertzka, M.D.
Becky and Don Higgins on * Anne and David Jacinto
Laurie and Dirk Jorgensen * Fran and Bill Johnson
Jacki Lake * Jessie Knight
Candese and John Marchese * Karen and Kent McBeth
Ginny and Marshall Merrifield * Edward Mracek
Josie and James Myers * Emily and Patrick Ord
Jean and Hon. Ron Packard * Kim and Troy Romero
Laurie and Matt Romney * Valerie and Gary Sabin
Candy and Ken Satterlee * Jan and John Smoot, M.D.
Monetta and Wendell Smoot M.D. * Senator Mark Wyland
Julie and Jonathan Bullen * Roberta and Malin Burnham
Laurie and Kelly Burt * Silvija and Brian Devine
Marilyn and Kim Fletcher * Dr. Dieter Kuster
Betsy and Papa Doug Manchester * Margaret and John Ord
Randie and Leon Reinhart * Meg and Eric Roach
For further information, please contact Karolyn Dorsee at 858/756-2027
Dorsee Productions -P. O. Box 455, Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067
fax: 858/756-2597 or email: karolyn@dorseeproductions.com
Mitt Romney, a lifelong member of the Mormon Church, has always seemed to be a walking contradiction. According to an article written by Mike Allen for Time Magazine, Romney's family has long been a part of the Mormon Church's elite. Perhaps, this could explain why a great majority of the individuals listed on the San Diego hosting committee for the Romney fundraiser are wealthy Mormons. For the past two decades Mitt Romney was fanatically committed to promoting abortion rights, and while governor of Massachusetts, did nothing to stop his state from issuing same-sex marriage licenses. Many were puzzled how a lifelong Mormon could be so liberal on basic moral issues. Just as confusing as his liberal record demonstrates, Romney mysteriously began to present himself as a new convert to being pro-life and anti-gay marriage right after the 2004 elections. Many are questioning the sincerity of Romney's newly constructed conservative credentials. What the James Hartline Report has found in researching the host committee for Romney's San Diego fundraiser may well prove too much for Romney's conservative "makeover" artists to overcome.
Major Embryonic Stem Cell Research Financier
Part of Host Committee
For "Pro-Life" Mitt Romney Fundraiser in San Diego, California
Most true conservatives have felt that it was only a matter of time before Mitt Romney returned to his truthful allignment with the left when it comes to the issue of abortion and embryonic stem cell research. In a shocking display of repugnant hypocrisy, the San Diego hosting committee for Romney's March 16, 2007 campaign fundraiser includes one of the biggest financiers for the embryonic stem cell industry. What makes that revelation even more distasteful is the fact that Romney has stated the reason he converted to being pro-life is the fact that human embryos are so easily killed during embryonic stem cell research. Here is how Romney recently described his pro-life converstion:
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17023959
He describes himself as pro-life, argues that Roe v. Wade should be replaced with state abortion regulations, and cites the science he studied amid a legislative debate over embryonic stem cell research as the basis for his position.
Romney says his moment of illumination about the immorality of abortion came two years ago during a meeting with an embryonic stem cell researcher.
"The comment was made that this really wasn't a moral issue, because the embryos were terminated or destroyed at 14 days," Romney said during a recent campaign stop in Mount Pleasant, S.C., in a reprise of other recent explanations of his thinking on abortion.
Enter Malin Burnham: Host Committee member for the San Diego Romney fundraiser; major financier for the California embryonic stem cell industry.
Although he has recently attempted to revamp his public persona to appear pro-life, Romney's historical pro-abortion fanaticism is now being renewed via one member on the hosting committee for his March 16, 2007 San Diego presidential fundraiser. One of the individuals hosting Romney in San Diego has been one of the most dedicated financial contributors to embryonic stem cell research in California. This individual is wealthy San Diego businessman Malin Burnham. Malin Burnham gave $50,000 to Prop. 71, the 2004 California initiative that authorized spending $6 billion in public funds for a state embryonic stem cell research enterprise that will eventually kill multiple thousands of growing human babies during unproven and wasteful medical experiments.
Take a look at the documentation for the Prop. 71 initiative contributions from Malin Burnham:
Committee Name: YES ON 71: COALITION FOR STEM CELL RESEARCH AND CURES
BURNHAM MALIN, BURNHAM REAL ESTATE SERVICES, CHAIRMAN, SAN DIEGO, CA 92106 $50,000.00 9/9/2004
Malin Burnham is one of the most fanatical supporters of exterminating human embryos for embryonic stem cell experimentation. Burnham further demonstrated his commitment to the the destruction of human embryos for medical experimentation purposes during a 2005 meeting with the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). CIRM was established by the passage of Prop. 71 to administrate for the state the taxpayer-funded embryonic stem cell organization. The following transcript from that meeting in 2005 details Malin Burnham's comments on embryonic stem cell research:
www.cirm.ca.gov/transcripts/pdf/2005/05-06-05.pdf
"MR. BURNHAM: MY NAME IS MALIN BURNHAM. I'M A NATIVE OF SAN DIEGO. I'M GOING TO TALK FAST BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE MUCH TIME. I'M SIMPLY A REAL ESTATE GUY. I'VE ALSO BEEN INVOLVED
WITH THE BURNHAM INSTITUTE FOR OVER 20 YEARS AS ITS CHIEF CHEERLEADER. SOME PEOPLE TODAY HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE. AT THE BURNHAM INSTITUTE, BEFORE LAST NOVEMBER'S ELECTION, WE HAD OVER A HUNDRED FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT PEOPLE WORKING IN STEM CELL RESEARCH. WE'RE DOING IT NOW. ONE THING THAT WE NEED TO CONCENTRATE ON IS WHAT'S BEST FOR YOUR STAFF. IN 40 YEARS OF COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE WORK, MY COLLEAGUES AND I HAVE PUT TENANTS INTO MILLIONS AND MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF SQUARE FEET, AND NEVER HAVE USED A SCORECARD TO DO IT. I BELIEVE THAT'S BOGUS, AND YOU SHOULDN'T DO IT. WE ARE -- WE ARE SUGGESTING YOU PUT YOUR STAFF IN THE EPICENTER OF THE STRONGEST, DEEPEST, CLOSEST KNIT CLUSTER OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FACILITIES AND PEOPLE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD, NOT JUST SAN DIEGO. I REST MY CASE."
And What About That Pro-Gay Romney Host Committee Fundraiser?
It Get's Worse - Much Worse: The castastrophic information now coming forth regarding the Malin Burnham-Embryonic Stem Cell-Romney relvelations are not the only trouble spots for the Romney "family values" charade. Take for example the woman who is coordinating the San Diego event for Romney, Karolyn Dorsee. Karolyn Dorsee has made a career out of promoting and raising campaign funds for pro-abortion and pro-gay California candidates. Take a look at what one San Diego homosexual activist recently said about Dorsee in his column in the Gay and Lesbian Times:
www.gaylesbiantimes.com/?id=8450&issue=984
While attending a San Diego luncheon with pro-abortion California Governor Arnold Schwarznegger, transvestite homosexual activist Nicole Murray Ramirez said this of Karolyn Dorsee: "I recently went to the very beautiful and exclusive Grand Del Mar, which was the site of a very intimate lunch with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and special guest George Schultz, the former secretary of state. In attendance with me were Bob Lehman and Tom Felkner of GLBT (Gay and Lesbian) Vote 2006. A special thank you to one of my favorite ladies, Karolyn Dorsee, a friend of mine who is one of the top movers and shakers on the West Coast. She made sure we were treated like true VIPs – or queens, if you’d prefer! Every time I meet Gov. Schwarzenegger I am more impressed because he is down to earth and tells it like it is. While as a gay man and a Latino I do not agree with the governor on all of our issues, I do believe he is the best candidate to lead our state forward."
While Romney is desperately attempting to cause conservative voters to forget about his long history of abortion and homosexual activism while serving as Governor of Massachusetts, the fact that he has hired Dorsee to handle his fundraising event in California is sure to destroy much of the false "family values" image that he has recently attempted to create. Among many of Dorsee's long list of abortion and gay-friendly clients in the last two decades are pro-abortion Governor Pete Wilson and pro-gay Republican San Diego mayoral candidate Steve Francis. Here is what the San Diego Union Tribune reported about the relationship between pro-gay civil unions candidate Steve Francis and Dorsee:
www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/pension/20050514-426-candidat.html
"Backers of business executive Steve Francis announced in an e-mail that he has hired a "campaign dream team" and put $500,000 of his own money into a campaign account. His team includes George Gorton, a political adviser to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Gov. Pete Wilson; political consultant Joe Shumate; Republican media guru Don Sipple, whose clients have included Wilson, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Schwarzenegger; former Bush campaign spokeswoman Mindy Tucker Fletcher; and veteran San Diego fundraiser Karolyn Dorsee."
Former California Governor Pete Wilson is perhaps the single biggest point in the state's history for paving the way for the liberalization of the state Repubican Party. As a committed supporter of abortion rights, Wilson surrounded himself with likeminded abortion supporters. That is what makes the relationship between Wilson and Dorsee extremely problematic for the newly proclaimed pro-life label being worn by Mitt Romey. Here is what Union Tribune columnist Diane Bell said about the Wilson-Dorsee relationship in her April 4, 2006 column:
www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060404/news_1m4bell.html
"Throughout much of Wilson's political career, the former governor was assigned a driver. But Wilson himself was behind the wheel when his longtime fundraiser Karolyn Dorsee and former staffers Kathy Holladay and Cathy Poncabare needed a lift from their hotel to the party. “It was a strange feeling,” says Dorsee . ."
Dorsee's involvement with candidates has also benefited one of the most aggressive pro-abortion, pro-gay Democrats in San Diego history. During Barbara Switzer Groth's 2002 campaign for the San Dieguito Union High School District, both Dorsee and liberal San Diego City Councilman Scott Peters endorsed Switzer-Groth's campaign. http://smartvoter.org/2002/11/05/ca/sd/vote/groth_b/endorse.html Peters and his wife are huge financial donors to the San Diego County Planned Parenthood organization. Thanks to the endorsements of Karolyn Dorsee and Scott Peters, Switzer-Groth was elected to the school board. Returning the favor, Groth then endorsed Democrat Scott Peters for reelection to the city council in 2004. http://peters.sitebuilder.completecampaigns.com/news/newsitem.php?section=EDO&id=891&showcat=5 Peter's went on to oppose saving the Mt. Soledad Cross, he declared a day of honor in the city for the retiring CEO of the county Planned Parenthood organization, and he forced the city to celebrate the San Diego Gay Pride festival in 2006.
- Dark Money, From San Diego To New England -
The Commonwealth PAC
They always say, "Follow the money," if you want to find out where a candidate's heart and soul really lie. Here is what Romney said about abortion during his 1994 senatorial campaign against Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy:
http://massresistance.org/docs/marriage/romney/record
"Romney ran against Senator Edward M. Kennedy in 1994. During a debate, Romney declared: 'I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. I have since the time that my mom took that position when she ran in 1970 as a US Senate candidate. I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years we should sustain and support it.' "
While Romney is attempting to diffuse his lifetime of support for abortion rights by new claims of being pro-life, his recent financial campaign records reveal more about his current thoughts on supporting abortion than anything else. Romney has raised millions of dollars via a political action committee called The Commonwealth PAC. http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2006/10/romney_bulks_up_1.html Amazingly, a number of the individuals listed on the San Diego hosting committee for the Romney San Diego fundraiser are also listed as donors to Romney's Commonwealth PAC: www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.asp?strID=C00403022&cycle=2006
Jonathan Bullen,$5,000; Robert Allen, $5,000; Frank Gaughan $5,000; Sheree Gaughan, $5,000; Randlyn Reinhart, $5,000; Gary Sabin, $5,000; John Alexander II, $5,000; Daryl Allen, $5,000; Christopher Crane, $5,000; Dieter Kuster, $5,000; Marshall Merrifield, $5,000; Virginia Merrifield, $5,000; John Ord, $5,000; Laurie Romney, $5,000; Matthew Romney, $5,000; Valerie Sabin, $5,000; Kenneth Satterlee, $5,000; Julie Bullen, $5,000; Bill Johnson, $2,000; John Smoot, $1,000;
Further evidence proving a pattern of dishonesty on the part of Romney's family values charade is revealed by the distribution of funds from The Commonwealth PAC. While Romney is claiming to be supportive of traditional marriage in America, his refusal to intervene in the gay marriage debacle in Massachusetts during his governorship demonstrates his clear weakness in defense of conservative family values. In fact, Romney not only sought out the endorsement of the extremist homosexual group Log Cabin Republicans when he ran for governor, but he published an endorsement letter during his senatorial campaign. http://massresistance.org/docs/marriage/romney/record/RomneyLogCabinLetter.pdf
Romney's Commonwealth PAC further disputes Romney's new pro-traditional marriage claims. For example, The Commonwealth PAC gave Ohio Senator Mike DeWine $3,000 in the summer of 2006. DeWine refused to support his own state's amendent to ban gay marriage which greatly contributed to his defeat in the 2006 general election.
Romney's Commonwealth PAC also gave $2,000 to rabidly pro-homosexual Republican Congresswoman Deborah Pryce for her 2006 reelection bid. The gay activist group Log Cabin Republicans called Pryce one of their allies in 2006 http://online.logcabin.org/news_views/reading-room-back-up/log-cabin-republicans-blast.html and endorsed her in 2004. www.logcabin.org/logcabinsv/elections_2004.html
Demonstrating even more ethics problems in the Romney camp, his Commonwealth PAC gave convicted Republican Congressman Bob Ney $1,000 on June 28, 2006, months after it was clear that Ney was going to be convicted for crimes that ultimately sent him to prison. www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-09-15-ney_x.htm
Whether America decides to forgoe more of the same flip-flopping and deceptive politics cominng from Mitt Romney remains to be seen. Whether America has had enough of the same old stale political menu that has given recent presidential campaigns the likes of John Kerry, Bill Clinton and now Mitt Romney also remains to be seen. One thing is for sure though, America will only change what it can no longer tolerate.
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Well I guess I'm convinced - I cannot vote for any Republican that doesn't tow the line 100% (Q: who decides the line?). In fact any candidate that has supporters that don't tow the same line 100% I also cannot vote for.
He hasn't had the fundraiser yet--I am not sure he is vetting yet the political beliefs of his fundraisers. He probably went to his rolodex and didnt filter anyone out. It will be interesting to see how he reacts to this though.
He hasn't had the fundraiser yet--I am not sure he is vetting yet the political beliefs of his fundraisers. He probably went to his rolodex and didnt filter anyone out. It will be interesting to see how he reacts to this though.
Too funny. He went to his Rolodex and found all of his old pro-abort, pro-gay funding sources, and now he's tapping them again?
And you think that spin is helping him how? ROFL...
With three pages of spin and obfuscation, of course.
"Still looking for a Hunter/Gingrich ticket"
"Ah! Now THAT"S the ticket."
Yeah, if we just want to win the South.
Well, I had considered Romeny out of three front runners, but now I've changed my mind.
Hunter just looks better and better.
If people who do embryonic research are willing to give money to a candidate that opposes their research, that's supposed to be a bad thing?
I hope Dick Cheney doesn't come support him, because he has a gay daughter and says he's fine with it.
IF you really want to throw the purists into a tailspin, announce that you are pro-choice, pro-gay-marriage, and pro-gun-control, and that you are sending checks to Hunter, Tancredo, and Gingrich.
Romney Clarifies on Stem Cells
Now, I oppose Embryonic research, AND I oppose federal funding for it. But the "limited government" position has been to oppose federal funding by arguing that if people want to do the research, let them fund it themselves.
Nobody is proposing a ban on Embryonic research, so Romney's position on that may be the same as other candidates. The important thing is to have a veto in the white house on federal funding, because given that a large majority of the house and senate support FUNDING the research, there's no chance a president is going to get to push banning the research altogether.
But despite my 30-year history in the pro-life movement, you have to watch out -- I'm not pure enough here either because while I oppose the rape/incest exception, I don't think we should ban abortion until the embryo is implanted in the womb (meaning I don't support banning drugs which prevent implantation, NOT that I support using embryos for cloning or research).
My position is based on an idea people have trouble with -- the embryo is human and therefore cannot be experimented on, but the mother's obligation to provide nurture and care to the embryo does not start until her body has accepted that responsibility through implantation.
If you don't adopt this position, you end up opposing all in-vitro fertilization. Because they breed more embryos than they use, and if the mother has an obligation to the embryo before implantation, it would be "murder" to not implant every fertilized embryo. BTW, banning in-vitro fertilization is a coherent position.
Another "cover-the-road," "please-all-sides," unprincipled position we've grown to expect from Romney.
Unfortunately, it doesn't cover the fact that Romney DOES NOT OPPOSE the destruction of embryos for "cures." He remains supportive of the research.
As I've been telling anyone who will listen: Romney is the same liberal he's always been, in spite of his brazen lying to the contrary.
Stem cells are the body parts of an ORGANISM named embryo. Stem cells are not embryos because they are sub-units of the greater called ORGANISM. You are an ORGANISM, SIr, with sub-units, even stem cells.
I don't think the LDS church has a problem will killing zygotes, fertilzed cells, or whatever, that are stored in a frozen state. Perhaps you can help me with the correct term.
As I understand it, the LDS Church does not recognize the humanity until implantation has occurred, as Orin Hatch has so clearly enumerated in public discourse. IOW, the 'where and from where life support is coming' defines for Orin Hatch (and one would presume for Mitt also) the status as human being or not.
They and you mistakenly conflate stem cells with embryo; you mistakenly conflate ORGANISM with specific sub-units of the organism. Once fertilization occurs, there is no no longer an egg only a new ORGANISM called zygote at the first cell stage in the lifetime begun at conception.
The LDS church apparently focuses on implantation. Thanks for clarifying that. I focus on brain waves. The LDS church is more restrictive than I about public policy when it comes to what should be legal to abort. There is no right or wrong answer. It comes down to a priori beliefs as to which inchoate humans should be protected, and which not. JMO.
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