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Mitt Romney's Super-Expensive, Federally-Funded Olympics
The GOP candidate pried $1.5 billion out of the federal government to bankroll his Olympic turnaround. Millions went to questionable projects that benefited well-connected Utahns.
The Romney campaign will run television ads during the games touting the candidate's experience as CEO of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, where he was widely credited with turning around the scandal-plagued organizing effort. What Romney doesn't talk about, at least not anymore, is the help he got in pulling off the most expensive Olympics in American history. Full Story »
Posted by Pamela Hogle - via Mother Jones
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