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Larry Flynt offering $1 million for Romney's financial records

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By Eric Pfeiffer, Yahoo! News | The Ticket – 1 hr 6 mins ago


Hustler magazine founder Larry Flynt (wikicommons)

Hustler magazine publisher, and self-described free speech activist, Larry Flynt is offering $1 million for anyone who will provide him with Mitt Romney's financial records.

Flynt, 69, has purchased full-page ads in Sunday's Washington Post and Tuesday's, September 11 issue of USA Today.

"What is he hiding?" the ad text reads, "Maybe, now, we'll find out." The ad also includes a phone number and email address where anyone with information can contact Flynt.

A press release credited to Hustler says Flynt is "offering up to a million dollars in cash for documented evidence concerning Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney's unreleased tax returns and/or details of his offshore assets, bank accounts and business partnerships."
Romney has only agreed to release his 2010 and 2011 tax returns so far.

On Friday, the Secret Service and FBI announced they are investigating an anonymous letter from an individual claiming to have stolen copies of Romney's tax returns. The letter reportedly demands $1 million in hard to trace Internet funds. Romney's accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers, has denied that any records were stolen.

Flynt, a registered Democrat who once ran for president as a Republican, is no stranger to politics. And he's certainly no stranger to offering $1 million rewards for his various political interests. He's made similar offers against everything including a request to debunk the Warren Commission's investigation into the death of John F. Kennedy to most recently asking for evidence supporting his belief that Texas Governor Rick Perry was guilty of infidelity.

Back during the impeachment trial of then-President Bill Clinton, Flynt made a $1 million offer for evidence of marital infidelity against Republican members of the House who were leading the trial against Clinton. That offer led to incoming House Speaker Bob Livingston resigning after evidence of his own affair was publicly revealed.
In 2007, Flynt offered a financial reward for evidence showing that Louisiana Republican Senator David Vitter had cheated on his wife. Vitter has remained in office, even after the evidence was made public.
Back in 2003, Flynt was one of several atypical candidates to run in the California gubernatorial recall election to replace Democrat Gray Davis.
Flynt has also run into some political troubles of his own recently. In August, California's Fair Political Practices Commission accused him of failing to report campaign donations in a timely manner that Flynt made to a state assembly candidate. However, Flynt was not fined by the agency since he filed his report immediately after the complaint was issued.

Larry Flynt offering $1 million for Romney's financial records | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

Fair game I say. These politicians are relying on millions of dollars from the top 1% to fund their campaigning. I say it's time we the people turn the tables around and enlist the help of millionaires to expose the politicians for what they truly are and that includes the current sitting President and the potential next President. Unfortunately I think this would be the only way at this point to get the country to dump these two and find a third party candidate to run the country.

It would be interesting to see what would happen if someone offered the same amount for Obama's college records, his selective service records and his travel records. It also might be interesting to see the tax records of all of Obama's 1% green crony fund raisers that were paid back and enriched with stimulus money. It seems that money was used to stimulate Obama's political friend's bank accounts. But that is just my humble opinion.

Originally Posted by Newmexican

It would be interesting to see what would happen if someone offered the same amount for Obama's college records, his selective service records and his travel records. It also might be interesting to see the tax records of all of Obama's 1% green crony fund raisers that were paid back and enriched with stimulus money. It seems that money was used to stimulate Obama's political friend's bank accounts. But that is just my humble opinion.

Your humble opinion, but could very well be the truth. Someone should step up to the plate to expose the President. Imagine if during the first debate, loads of secret documents were dumped into the public sphere exposing both Obama and Romney for the liars and shills they are. And the moderator proceeds to put them both in the spot light. The one time the entire country is perhaps tuned into politics, the American people would learn the truth and hopefully start looking elsewhere if they're not all simply obamabots or rombots. If it didn't significantly affect the election, then this country would be truly screwed up.

sigh... I can only dream.

Originally Posted by googler

. . . dump these two and find a third party candidate to run the country.

Would be nice . . . but it ain't gonna happen.
We're stuck with one of these clowns running the country for the next 4 years.