{"id":5376,"date":"2012-10-17T15:17:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T21:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=5376"},"modified":"2012-10-17T15:17:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T21:17:12","slug":"romney-saved-the-olympics-with-lots-of-federal-money-for-his-rich-friends-conman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/romney-saved-the-olympics-with-lots-of-federal-money-for-his-rich-friends-conman\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney saved the Olympics with lots of Federal money for his rich friends #conman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2012\/07\/mitt-romney-expensive-olympics-federal-funding\">Mitt Romney&#8217;s Pork Barrel Olympics | Mother Jones<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What Romney doesn&#8217;t talk about is how he succeeded in Utah with government help\u2014lots of it\u2014and how millions in assistance that he pried out of the feds ended up bankrolling subsidies, sweetheart deals, and giveaways for land developers and other well-connected Utahns. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Romney is simultaneously touting an Olympic effort that, more than any other in American history, succeeded thanks to public investment\u2014some of it sunk into questionable projects of marginal value to the Salt Lake games. &quot;The $1.5 billion in taxpayer dollars that Congress is pouring into Utah is 1.5 times the amount spent by lawmakers to support all seven Olympic Games held in the U.S. since 1904\u2014combined,&quot; Donald Barlett and James Steele <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/vault\/article\/magazine\/MAG1024516\/4\/index.htm\">reported<\/a> for <em>Sports Illustrated<\/em> in 2001. Those numbers were adjusted for inflation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2012\/07\/mitt-romney-expensive-olympics-federal-funding#\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Mother Jones 2012 Summer Olympics Coverage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/files\/rings220.jpg\" width=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How the Salt Lake Games came to receive more money than any games in American history isn&#8217;t much of a mystery. The organizers, including Romney, asked for it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2012\/07\/mitt-romney-expensive-olympics-federal-funding\">Mitt Romney&#8217;s Pork Barrel Olympics | Mother Jones<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt Romney&#8217;s Pork Barrel Olympics | Mother Jones What Romney doesn&#8217;t talk about is how he succeeded in Utah with government help\u2014lots of it\u2014and how millions in assistance that he pried out of the feds ended up bankrolling subsidies, sweetheart deals, and giveaways for land developers and other well-connected Utahns. \u2026 Romney is simultaneously touting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/romney-saved-the-olympics-with-lots-of-federal-money-for-his-rich-friends-conman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Romney saved the Olympics with lots of Federal money for his rich friends #conman<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5377,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376\/revisions\/5377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}