Posted on 08/16/2012 8:56:18 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
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Baldwin: “Disclose your tax returns and everything else about Stericycle.”
Bain investment “would make Herod blush”
TAMPA, FL (Thursday, August 16, 2012) – Republican spokesmen for a rising “DUMP ROMNEY” rebellion today charged that Mitt Romney is “hiding Bain abortion profits in his tax returns” from investments that “would make Herod blush.”
Steve Baldwin, former Republican Whip of the California State Assembly, said recent journalism about the actual date of Romney’s departure from Bain Capital “has almost certainly revealed the real reason Romney refuses to release any more than two years of personal IRS data: Bain’s craven investment in Stericycle corporation – a vendor to Planned Parenthood – lined Romney’s pockets with profits from the incineration of aborted human fetuses. Mitt, it’s time to disclose your tax returns and everything else about Stericycle.”
Baldwin, also former Executive Director of the Council for National Policy (CNP), an influential conservative organization in Washington, said, “Tampa’s GOP delegates will shame themselves if they don’t conscientiously abstain from Romney on the first ballot to derail the worst nominee in our party’s history. We’re convinced Mitt Romney is hiding Bain abortion profits in his tax returns.” Baldwin cited the following facts and sources to back up his charges:
· Despite claiming to have quit Bain in early 1999, Romney evidently controlled Stericycle via Bain for years thereafter: In July, The Boston Globe reported evidence that Romney maintained control of Bain and its investments for years after the date he claimed to have relinquished it. The Globe cited a June, 2012 federal filing by Romney’s campaign which said, “Since February 11, 1999, Mr. Romney has not had any active role with any Bain Capital entity and has not been involved in the operations of any Bain Capital entity in any way.’’ That, however, contradicted the findings of a July 2, 2012 Mother Jones investigation: “Citing SEC documents, the magazine said Romney had control of Bain Capital’s shares in Stericycle, a medical waste company, in November 1999. Talking Points Memo reported this week on additional SEC filings listing Romney’s position with Bain in July 2000 and February 2001.”
· Bain joined a $75 million investment in Stericycle: The Mother Jones story cited prior reporting by Huffington Post during the early 2012 presidential primaries to show that Romney “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….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 do 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.”
Stericycle was handling fetal remains years before Bain and Romney took control: Two days after the Mother Jones story (entitled “Romney Invested in Medical-Waste Firm That Disposed of Aborted Fetuses, Government Documents Show”), the pro-life website LifeNews.com oddly defended Romney by arguing that because a 2011-12 pro-life Campaign to Stop Stericycle documented no Stericycle waste disposal contracts with abortion clinics prior to 2003, Romney therefore could not have profited from Stericycle’s abortion-related activities. The Mother Jones story itself, however, cited public OSHA violations by Stericycle from 1991 – well before the Bain investment – which included improperly keeping “body parts, fetuses, and dead experimental animals in unmarked storage containers, placing workers at risk.”
· Romney personally signed for “voting and dispositive” control over Stericycle, the abortion disposal firm: According to the Mother Jones investigation,
Here's what happened with Stericycle. In November 1999, Bain Capital and Madison Dearborn Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm, filed with the SEC a Schedule 13D, which lists owners of publicly traded companies, noting that they had jointly purchased $75 million worth of shares in Stericycle, a fast-growing player in the medical-waste industry. (That April, Stericycle had announced plans to buy the medical-waste businesses of Browning Ferris Industries and Allied Waste Industries.) The SEC filing lists assorted Bain-related entities that were part of the deal, including Bain Capital (BCI), Bain Capital Partners VI (BCP VI), Sankaty High Yield Asset Investors (a Bermuda-based Bain affiliate), and Brookside Capital Investors (a Bain offshoot). And it notes that Romney was the "sole shareholder, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of BCI, BCP VI Inc., Brookside Inc. and Sankaty Ltd."
The document also states that Romney "may be deemed to share voting and dispositive power with respect to" 2,116,588 shares of common stock in Stericycle "in his capacity as sole shareholder" of the Bain entities that invested in the company. That was about 11 percent of the outstanding shares of common stock. (The whole $75 million investment won Bain, Romney, and their partners 22.64 percent of the firm's stock—the largest bloc among the firm's owners.) The original copy of the filing was signed by Romney. Another SEC document filed November 30, 1999, by Stericycle also names Romney as an individual who holds "voting and dispositive power" with respect to the stock owned by Bain. If Romney had fully retired from the private equity firm he founded, why would he be the only Bain executive named as the person in control of this large amount of Stericycle stock?
· Stericycle is just one more immoral Bain/Romney investment: “Rusty Leonard, president of Stewardship Partners, says Romney … - who is aggressively courting “religious right” voters - owns stock in at least a dozen companies with active ties to abortion… and pornography.” (http://www.danburrell.com/?p=442)
· Additional Rescources:
o “Mitt Romney’s Abortion Business Made Him $50M”
o National Catholic Reporter, August 10, 2012, on Romney and Stericycle
o YouTube: “Romney Invested in Abortion Cleanup Company Stericycle”
o “Stericycle’s Burning of Aborted Babies at North Carolina Incineration Plant Exposed”
o “Stericycle Slammed with Fines for Illegally Dumping Aborted Babies”
o Mother Jones follow-up: “What about the various SEC documents—some of which Romney signed—that identify him as controlling assorted Bain entities and large blocs of shares in firms in which Bain invested after February 1999? The Obama campaign letter cited at least 63 SEC filings after March 1, 1999, that describe Bain entities as "wholly owned by W. Mitt Romney." [The pro-Romney] rebuttals did not take into account all the evidence…. — such as this May 10, 2001, document—that describe Romney as a member of the "management committee" of Bain funds. The Romney campaign and Bain insist that Romney had not a thing to do with Bain after February 1999, though he signed filings and pocketed millions. But they won't answer specific questions about Romney and Bain during this period—just as Romney won't come clean on his tax returns.”( http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/mystery-mitt-romney-exit-bain-stericycle).
o YouTube: Stericycle Servicing Visit Planned Parenthood Denver Stapleton ...
o YouTube: Stericycle Servicing the Second Largest Planned Parenthood ...
o Slate: “The Conversion: How, when, and why Mitt Romney changed his mind on abortion”
o Slate Video: “Romney’s Abortion Record: Spin vs. Truth”
o “RomneyCare Now Funding FREE Abortions: A Disqualifier for Mitt Romney's Candidacy
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o National Review: “Coming Obama Attack Coming Down the Road: Stericycle?”
#[NOTE: For interviews with Mr. Baldwin, Dr. Cass or another contributor, researcher or GOP activist behind the book “DUMP ROMNEY: Why Tampa’s Republican Delegates must Dump Romney to Defeat Obama,” please contact Rod Mitchell at (281) 350-5506 or by email: mediarod@aol.com].
HOW????????
By using real math and precise language please explain your plan.
Hitting the nail on the head friend.
Even one of you sources, Mother Jones, in the linked article does little more than toss around the "so many unanswered questions" meme. Like him or not, we actually know him quite well. Now, I've never followed Mother Jones much, so if they publish something more substantiative please advise. I'll take a gander.
And I do wonder if they were leading the charge to unravel the tangled web Red Obama weaved around his life before he was allowed to ride over us. Were they?
There may be a final solution to suppressing voter enthusiasm, but I predict a lot of resistance to this phony imbroglio. I think the smear campaign may ultimately backfire in unexpected ways, instead of dissuading potential RR voters may rally people to them. And all this noise fading away like distant thunder...
This is like "the pubic hair on a coke can" accusation by Anita Hill about Justice Thomas....what did she do, place it under a microscope? More filth and savagery by far left powers who don't want the status quo to change ever.
This is a hit piece....remember how successful the propaganda was against George Bush....wonder how many remains Waste Management handles.............
Sorry but I think Raypa has a point....the owner of that womb and her doctor needed help before Stericycle got into the act. Other wise all body parts and other medical trash would pile up in the streets. As I said, this accusation against Romney is a fabulous hit piece.
I’d rather vote for “NEITHER”,
and I think that would be a GOOD choice, instead of flipping a coin between two BAD choices.
Romney's involvement in the trafficking of fetuses is one of the main reasons that many of us will be voting against him.
>>”Romney’s involvement in the trafficking of fetuses..”
What is revealing is that some have to so distort the facts in order to justify their actions.
The link to willard here is weak. Of course he’s pro abort and anti gun. but using medical waste disposal as the aha link isn’t working. And let’s face it. There is no amount of evidence that would convince the willard apologists anyway. You can’t reach them with logic or facts.
It is what it is, I'm afraid.
Prove it punk.
I love how no one in the MSM or even so-called conservative news bother to point out the ridiculous stupidity of people saying things like “he’s hiding...” Really?
If he’s hiding it, how did you find out? Are you saying Romeny is a bad hider? Did he fail as a child playing hide and seek?
Debbie Whassisthatthingonherhead Charlie Shultz says Romney has “secret bank accounts no one knows about...” Really? I thought you said they were secret. Does Maxwell Smart to Romney’s banking? Gomer Pyle? And how can they be both secret and no one knows while you claim they exist? Doesn’t that mean YOU KNOW???
I’m sorry. I’m getting more and more intolerant of people’s simple lack of logical thinking to the point I withhold my money from places where owners and managers are this stupid.
Yeah, it is what it is, not what you have to try to make to justify your position.
Well, other than the fact that the SEC documents clearly show that Romney owned a controlling interest and made tens of millions from collecting up and disposing of the bodies of the little boys and girls who had been slaughtered.
You might want to check.
But Romney and his partners invested more than $70 million in Stericycle. You can be sure they knew everything about the business they were buying. Everything.
You have completely embraced an “ends justifies the means” political campaign.
Innuendo is perfectly acceptable because your cause is better than theirs.
It turns out you're a standard issue political hack wearing a moral superiority suit.
Have you even looked at the SEC documents? They speak for themselves. Mitt Romney owned controlling shares of Stericycle, and profited richly from it. There’s no doubt about it, and no “innuendo” needed.
No, I haven't. Romney Republicans on the other hand have. "Winning" is everything, even if it includes abandoning every principle of conservatism, or defending the indefensible.
>>>It turns out you’re a standard issue political hack wearing a moral superiority suit.
Well put.
Have this candidate released his own records of investments, financial records, business history, etc?
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