Mitt Romney spent nearly $100,000 in state funds to replace computers in his office at the end of his term as governor of Massachusetts in 2007 as part of an unprecedented effort to keep his records secret, Reuters has learned.
The move during the final weeks of Romney’s administration was legal but unusual for a departing governor, Massachusetts officials say.
The effort to purge the records was made a few months before Romney launched an unsuccessful campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. He is again competing for the party’s nomination, this time to challenge Barack Obama for the presidency in 2012.
Five weeks before the first contests in Iowa, Romney has seen his position as frontrunner among Republican presidential candidates whittled away in the polls as rival Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House of Representatives, has gained ground.
When Romney left the governorship of Massachusetts, 11 of his aides bought the hard drives of their state-issued computers to keep for themselves. Also before he left office, the governor’s staff had emails and other electronic communications by Romney’s administration wiped from state servers, state officials say.
Read More at Reuters By Mark Hosenball, Reuters
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So, BO has spent millions to hide his records and still is.
Lesser of 2 evils or evil of 2 lessers?
And yet, Governor Palin's e-mails were archived, organized, and published for the world to read. Really Gov Romney? Is that the sort of transparency we will be able to expect out of a President Romney?
Rs and Ds 2 sides of the same evil coin. Heads they win tails WE THE PEOPLE lose!
Yet we keep voting them in and back in.
$100,000 FOR A WHOLE TERM A GOVERNOR? WHAT A PIKER…..
OBAMA SPENT OVER 20 TIMES THAT AMOUNT JUST TO CONVINCE JUSTICES TO TELL PLAINTANTS THEY HAVE NO STANDING.