Romney resigns from Marriott board ( tied to Natl Rest. Association, Dick Marriott)

boston.com ^ | January 12, 2011 | by Stephanie Vallejo

[syriacus]

"WASHINGTON – Former Governor Mitt Romney resigned today from the board of directors of Marriott International, potentially another sign of his preparations for another presidential run.

Romney, who served on Marriott’s board for 10 years before resigning to run for governor in 2002, rejoined the board in January 2009.

[Tennessee Nana]

Until the early ‘60s American’s of African descent were not allowed to hold Priesthood until LDS President David O. McKay had a “vision” that they should be allowed.
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1978

Nearly 15 years after the Civil Rights Act..

Jimmy Carter put pressure on them to change their racism...

In 1980 the Mormons “rewarded” their good friend Jimmy by holding thier noses and voting for the much hated Ronald Reagan..

[humblegunner]

It’s been fixed.

[NVDave]

Ah, that’s what they say in public.

What happens in the voting booth is private.

Most all schools are sucking on the government teat, and so well bow and scrape before members of Congress. There’s very few schools that have the spine to tell Congress to STFU and go to hell. They should, but they don’t.

[NVDave]

That’s a big part of it, but there was large growth of illegals from south of the border, as well as people moving in from other states. I seriously doubt that anyone from any other region can visually or viscerally relate to how fast Vegas grew since 1990, especially if they are from stagnant areas with very limited growth like the midwest or northeast industrial cities.

[Elsie]

I guess it’s rooted in the polygamy issue.

Oh; there is a LOT more than this!

[Elsie]

I noticed that as I read through the thread. It was 'fixed' when I got in it; thus didn't see how it was to begin with. Kinda like the way MORMON, Inc. has 'fixed' most of it's history.

[Elsie]

There’s very few schools that have the spine to tell Congress to STFU and go to hell.

Don't blame schools; blame US!

WE are the ones who vote.

POGO was RIGHT!

[Elsie]

I came thru Vegas back in ‘63, on a Honda 50 cc motorcycle.

The road south to the dam was a dinky two-laner.

MY next trip there was in ‘94.

I thought I was in the middle of the main runway at DFW airport!

[Earthdweller]

Oh how clumsy of me..I meant to say that Cain's mangier, Mark Block, needs to be fired for not pointing out the sKerry Romney ties to these nasty smears.

[Colofornian]

WHOA!! Disagreeing with the PROPHET gets you on the slippery slope to APOSTACY!! http://lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/od/2?lang=eng

Huntsman has (rightfully) tossed the first 11 "prophets" of the Lds church -- along with all their general authorities -- under the bus.

The question is: Will other Mormons follow?

Will they publicly pinpoint of false teachings/errors of its leaders thru the first 150 years of its existence?

[Elsie]

Hello Silence my old friend...

[syriacus]

There's a long story behind this thread.

It began on Bloggers and personals as a statement of my own idea, that there is a Romney-Marriott-NRA connection that could be investigated.

The NRA connection is the pertinent point

As a history major and former librarian, I like to cite supporting literature. I had done that when posting my thoughts, in the morning, on other websites

The other websites to which I posted did not have the same compartmentalized structure as FR. There's usually a place to place a screenname and a box to enter a message.

When I came here, I tried, in various ways, to present my argument in a coherent manner.

FR did not accept sources I had used previously (like Bloomberg) so I looked around to find another source.

I made the mistake, here, of deciding to lead with Vallejo's column and of posting the link to it the top of the thread. Her column had made no material contribution to my idea. It merely corroborated facts that most politically informed people already knew about Romney.

I was accused of stealing and plagiarizing, so the authorship and date were changed and the 10-month old article was placed into "breaking news."

The original title of my thread was

"Romney has close, personal ties with former head of Natl Rest. Association, Dick Marriott"

I asked that my title be replaced by Vallejo's, in order to be more accurate.

I know, now, that when I first posted this thread I should have explained MY idea, kept MY date and authorship and NOT cited anything.

I should have let Freepers do their own fact checking.

[dools0007world]

For instance?

[Elsie]

For instance?

Well, Ma'am; it's like this.

First we give you a little milk...

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[Utah Binger]

An excellent new generic sign, just for you and all the big buyers. Romney needs to give us 50 Million and we will then start to listen.(slightly)

[Elsie]

What’s the NEW part?

The lettering?

[Theodore R.]

Marriott gave $1 million to Nixon in 1972, but I didn’t know that he was a George Romney advocate in 1968 before Romney confessed to having been “brainwashed.”

[Elsie]

What's on THIS sign?

[Utah Binger]

That sign blew down last year. We put it back but is not as tall. We bought a new electric sign that can be on at night. We installed it inside the Tbird uprights.