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MITT ROMNEY / ROBERT LICHFIELD / MEL SEMBLER CONNECTION

              
    Mitt Romney          Robert Lichfield     Amb. Mel Sembler

News articles

Romney funding tops $1M in Arizona -
Any connections to Robert Lichfield/WWASPS?

 Video   Mit Romney Sells Out

Sembler's Pro-War Support
He [Sembler] has switched his money from the
Scooter Libby Defense Fund to Freedom's Watch,
which is intent on keeping the troops in Iraq.

Bush cronies launch propaganda push to support ...

 

 
  Romney campaign says top fund raiser with links to 'abusive schools' resigned on his own. But ... WWASPS
  President, Ken Kay, stated, "Gov.  Romney has asked Mr. Lichfield to step down and not be involved in any
  more fundraising " more >>
 

 ROMNEY CANS GOLDEN GOOSE OVER ABUSE
 Mitt Romney has asked his Utah finance committee co-chair, Robert Lichfield,
 who is affiliated with a controversial network of schools for troubled teens and
 has been dogged by allegations of abuse and fraud, to step down, Radar has
 learned. More >>

 ROMNEY FORCED TO FIRE 2nd CRUCIAL
 CAMPAIGN BACKER, ROBERT LICHFIELD
 Mitt Romney, just days after ousting disgraced Sen. Larry Craig from his
 Presidential campaign, has had to fire another well-connected state
 campaign organizer due to tawdry dealings — this time involving abuse
 and fraud toward troubled teens. More >>

 
  More Romney / Lichfield news ...

 
WASHINGTON - A Utah man remains on presidential candidate Mitt Romney's state finance committee despite his ties to an organization that a lawsuit alleges abuses children. Robert Lichfield, who helped launch the Worldwide Association of Specialty Schools (WWASPS), held a fundraiser for Romney in southern Utah earlier this year that raked in more than $300,000 and has been a top financial supporter of the former Massachusetts governor and other Republicans in recent years.

Lichfield, meanwhile, is named in a federal lawsuit alleging that students of the schools associated with WWASPS were subjected to "physical abuse, emotional abuse and sexual abuse." An amended complaint in U.S. District Court in Utah lists 140 plaintiffs.

Mel Sembler, former owner of Straight, Inc., a drug rehabilitation program for youth, sits on Mitt Romney's National Finance Chair. According to the www.melsembler.com website, Mel Sembler, the current Ambassador to Italy, was the former Ambassador to Australia. He has been a financial supporter of the Bush clan, a big-time land developer in Florida, Georgia and Alabama, a Graduate of Northwestern University in Chicago, and the founder of a nationwide cult that brainwashed and abused children for nearly 20 years.

 

September 7, 2007 Romney fundraiser, Robert Lichfield, in Utah is off team : He is named among 140 defendants in a child-abuse lawsuit involving schools for troubled youths
 		 (click here)
September 7, 2007 Utah fund-raiser for Romney steps down : Lichfield involved in schools that are subjects of lawsuits
 		 (click here)
September 6, 2007 Top Utah money man leaves Romney campaign (click here)
September 6, 2007 Romney campaign says top fund raiser with links to 'abusive schools' resigned on his own

But ... WWASPS president, Ken Kay, stated, "Gov. Romney has asked Mr. Lichfield to step down and not be involved in any more fundraising "
 

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September 6, 2007 Romney Fires One Teen-Abuse Linked Financier, Keeps Big One (click here)
September 6, 2007 Romney Forced to Fire 2nd Crucial Campaign Backer (click here)
September 5, 2007 Romney Cans Golden Goose Over Abuse (click here)
August 29, 2007 Romney Distances Himself From Craig (click here)
July 31, 2007 Governor Mitt Romney Announces National Finance Chairs And Co-Chairs (click here)
June 27, 2007 Romney, Torture, and Teens
The former governor's connections to abusive "tough love" camps
 		 (click here)
June 27, 2007 The Teen Torture Candidate? (click here)
June 21, 2007 Romney funding tops $1M in Arizona (click here)
June 21, 2007 Utahn stays on campaign despite abuse allegations (click here)
June 21, 2007 Romney fundraiser faces lawsuits (click here)
June 21, 2007 Utahn's legal woes linked to Romney fund raising (click here)
June 20, 2007 Lawsuits hit a Romney money man (click here)
May 6, 2007 Suit alleging abuse names GOP donor (click here)
May 6, 2007 PAC donations from Utah raise doubts in Maine  (click here)
May 6, 2007 How we traced the money (click here)
April 14, 2007 Utah No. 2 in Romney contributions (click here)
February 21, 2007 Romney in S. Utah to raise funds (click here)
January 5, 2007 Romney estimates $100 million to be `serious contender' for 2008 (click here)
January 4, 2007 Governor Mitt Romney Announces First Group of National Finance Co-Chairs (click here)
June 11, 2006 Romney strategy pays off quickly
Multistate tactic overcomes limits
 		 (click here)

 

 

 

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