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Romney Gets Support of Key Thompson Fundraiser In Florida
In a further sign that Fred Thompson's withdrawal could prove to be a net plus for Mitt Romney in the Florida primary, Romney has now picked up the support of Anita Mitchell, one of Thompson's top fundraisers in the state.
Mitchell told The Hill that Romney's experience as a businessman and CEO of the 2002 Winter Olympics attracted her to Mitt's candidacy, adding that "a lot of the people I brought to the table for Fred will go with Romney."
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Fred Thompson has one sure vote in Palm Beach County. In fact, Anita Mitchell thinks so highly of the Law and Order television star-turned presidential candidate that she’s now his county campaign chair.
Mitchell and Thompson go back a ways.The two Republican stalwarts once dated.
Let's set the record straight on this one. The dates didn't amount to any hot-and-heavy, Harlequin-style affair; just a few dinners that led to a friendship that lasted years.
http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/theslant/blog/2007/11/when_freddie_met_anita.html
Mitchell first met Thompson in the early 1980s. She was married to astronaut Edgar Mitchell, and Thompson was running Howard Baker’s short-lived presidential campaign. Baker, a Tennessee senator and Senate Minority Leader, became President Ronald Reagan’s chief of staff. Thompson won a Senate seat representing Tennessee.)
Mitchell and Thompson went their separate ways until the 1990s, when Mitchell who by then had divorced her husband was attending the National Cable Conference in Washington, D.C. Thompson, who was also at the conference, spotted her and asked a mutual friend to introduce him to "the pretty lady." Thompson later asked Mitchell out to dinner, and the two went out on a few dates.
“He was funny, engaging, respectful, interesting, not a show off,” Mitchell says.
As the 2008 presidential campaign began heating up, Mitchell started to consider whom she might support. That's when she got a call from Sandy Safley, the man who re-introduced Thompson and Mitchell at the cable conference. “Keep your powder dry," Safley said. "Fred may announce soon.”
January 24, 2008 9:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
Isn't it interesting that Mitt Romney says he is TOTALLY AGAINST POLYGAMY - yet he lives his life looking forward to an afterlife where he'll be a SUPER POLYGAMIST with his own planet and his own Goddess Wives.
Mormon men are taught that after death (and if they are righteous) they will live forever as GODS over THEIR OWN PLANET - having unlimited sexual relations with MULTIPLE GODDESS WIVES so as to populate their own planet.
How can Mitt Romney say he is against something he believes is one of the greatest rewards in the afterlife. DO YOU really want a PRESIDENT who disavows something in his earthly life that he covets and aspires to in the afterlife?
Are you aware that Mitt Romney has performed death oath rituals hundreds of times in which he has drawn his thumb across his throat from side to side as if he were slitting his own throat and another where he has drawn his thumb across his abdomen as if he were disemboweling himself?
I am a former Mormon. I graduated from BYU. I was married in the Wash, DC temple.
I vehemently believe in freedom of religion. However, I am concerned that someone who professes questionable beliefs and who has participated in cult-like rituals involving grisly death-oath might become our President.
This information is not widely available to the general public. Mormons profess - what goes on in the temple is "sacred, not secret." Well if they are so sacred and "not secret" then why was I asked to make death oaths swearing I would not divulge what I had seen and experienced in the temple?
Visit my blog at http://justicefreedom4all.blogspot.com/ to see video re-enactments of the actual temple rituals and interviews with other individuals who also experienced the Mormon Temple rituals.
After participating in these rituals myself, I could no longer hold the Mormon faith in my heart and in my mind. As I exited the Wash, DC Mormon temple after going through the rituals for the first time I was asked by other Mormon's who accompanied me what I thought about what I had seen and experienced.
My response was that if those ceremonies/teaching were indeed of God, then I would rather go to hell with non-Mormons.
I feel that this information needs to be disseminated immediately. Voters must have this "sacred, not secret" information so they can make their own decisions about whether a practicing Mormon would be their choice under all
circumstances of national security.
How meaningful will an oath of office be for someone who makes death oaths to their God in the name of their religion?
And what I find even more frightening - why is mainstream media treating these Mormon issues like the naked Emperor is marching by?
I can longer live in fear of the millions of Mormons who have taken the death oaths. Citizens of America have a right to the facts.
Dianne Pearce
Phone: 636-675-5232
Email: dpearce@erols.com
January 25, 2008 12:31 AM | Reply | Permalink