Remember the news about Mitt Romney replacing all the computers and deleting all the emails when he left office? It turns out that cost Massachusetts taxpayers $100,000.00.
Mitt Romney spent nearly $100,000 in state funds to replace computers in his office at the end of his term as governor of Massachusetts in 2007 as part of an unprecedented effort to keep his records secret, Reuters has learned.
Reuters. Found via Political Wire.
The cleanup of records by Romney's staff before his term ended included spending $205,000 for a three-year lease on new computers for the governor's office, according to official documents and state officials.
In signing the lease, Romney aides broke an earlier three-year lease that provided the same number of computers for about half the cost - $108,000. Lease documents obtained by Reuters under the state's freedom of information law indicate that the broken lease still had 18 months to run.
As a result of the change in leases, the cost to the state for computers in the governor's office was an additional $97,000.
This is evidently legal per Reuters although it would not surprise me if it's not quite as legal as they think. However it is not the act of an innocent man, not at all. To quote Mitt re: illegal immigrants working on his lawn, "I'm running for office here!". To me it is just another sign of just how desperate Mitt Romney is to hide himself from scrutiny, from anyone knowing who he actually is and what he actually does. He's been preparing to run for President since some time in his term as governor of Massachusetts (at a minimum) and he is absolutely desperate to win, and win this year. I guess the warranty on his gelmet is due to expire soon.
Mitt already said:
Well, I think in government we should follow the law. And there has never been an administration that has provided to the opposition research team, or to the public, electronic communications. So ours would have been the first.
to justify this erasure. Does that not mean that Mitt has admitted that he spent $100,000 of tax payer money to help his political ambitions? He says he did this to avoid helping the opposition research team. It cost the taxpayers money. Q.E.D., the taxpayers of Massachusetts were asked to foot the bill for Mitt's ambitions.
Mr. Dog On Car has some explaining to do. I wonder if anyone in the media will actually ask him.