FL Yuppies for Rudy and Young Romney in FL

The Rudy Giuliani campaign has rolled out its "Florida All-American Team" of  young professionals under 45 years old helping raise coin and support for Giuliani. The leaders: John Scherer, Chair, Vice President Gulf Building Corporation, Ft. Lauderdale; Nick Loeb, Vice Chair, Private Investor, DelRay Beach; Carrie O’Rourke, Vice Chair, Director of Organizational Development, Edify LLC., West Palm Beach. The team members: Sean Alveshire, Plantation; Joseph DaGrosa, Jr., Pinecrest; Roger Farwell,  Windermere; Joseph Mantilla, Orlando; Paul Pomfret, Palm Beach; John Scherer, Ft. Lauderdale; Eric Zichella, Jupiter.

Meanwhile, Mitt Romney's youngest son Craig is campaigning for Dad today in south Florida.

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lets see the full list of endorsements. someone please post for rudy and mitt.

Nick Loeb=name you dont want associated with your campaign.

hmm how old are these Yuppies? why are they not supporting the troops and fighting alongside of 'em?

sometimes you just gotta wonder about the hypocritsy with republicans. gotta wonder what Jesus would do.

Nick Loeb's movie that he produced - see bottom (and click on the director)
http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0205418/fullcredits

and his Director (check out her movies)
http://uk.imdb.com/name/nm1077968/

Someone on the Giuliani campaign should do their homework

Romney just got hammered again in the Rasmussen Florida poll on Realclearpolitics.com

He is at 11%, far behind the leaders.

Does Eric Zichella live in Jupiter or Naples? Time to make up his mind.

where is the rudy staff today? working?

[Timmy]

The Scherer Family?
As in - Former employer of Sherriff Ken?
As in - Former crook attorney of the North Broward Hospital District.
As in – Mean Man.

It may be, however, the first time this family and Charlie will be on the same side of an issue.

[manaboutit]

More mitt-sh*t...

The weekly update from Media Matters for America

You've heard of Norman Hsu -- why not Robert Lichfield?

As of 11 a.m. today, a Nexis search for "Norman Hsu AND Clinton" returns 1,252 hits. The nation's leading news organizations provide a substantial portion of those results:

The New York Times: 26
Los Angeles Times: 20
The Washington Post: 16
USA Today: 2
Chicago Tribune: 9
The Boston Globe: 8
Associated Press: 47

On June 20, The Hill reported:

In a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, 133 plaintiffs have alleged that Robert Lichfield, co-chairman of Romney's Utah finance committee owned or operated residential boarding schools for troubled teenagers where students were "subjected to physical abuse, emotional abuse and sexual abuse."

The complaint, which plaintiffs amended and resubmitted to the court last week, alleges children attending schools operated by Lichfield suffered abuses such as unsanitary living conditions; denial of adequate food; exposure to extreme temperatures; beatings; confinement in dog cages; and sexual fondling.

A second lawsuit filed by more than 25 plaintiffs in July in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of New York alleges that Lichfield and several partners entered into a scheme to defraud them by operating an unlicensed boarding school in upstate New York. The suit does not allege physical or emotional abuse.

These are two active lawsuits against Lichfield. Several others suits have alleged child abuse on behalf of dozens of plaintiffs, but judges have thrown out the suits for procedural reasons. As a result, the merits of the allegations have not been weighed. In some suits, plaintiffs have settled their cases for undisclosed amounts of money.

News reports about Clinton and Hsu have often featured various reporters or pundits expressing incredulity that Clinton's vetting operation didn't raise red flags about Hsu or about the ability of donors connected to Hsu to make campaign contributions. But campaigns don't have access to donors' bank records, making some of that criticism unfair.

Romney's campaign, on the other hand, would only have had to spend a few moments with Nexis to discover allegations against Lichfield. Among the news reports that Romney staff could have easily found prior to the February fundraiser that Lichfield helped organize:

An April 21, 2005, Deseret Morning News article reported on "persistent allegations of child abuse and claims of questionable business practices surrounding the World Wide Association of Speciality Schools (WWASPS) founded by Robert Lichfield."
An August 19, 2005, Deseret Morning News article reported that a school connected to Lichfield "has been ordered to refund more than $1 million to parents and stop misrepresenting itself." The school had no authority to issue high school diplomas, but issued 113 anyway, and falsely claimed to have been accredited by the Northwest Association of Accredited Schools. An Associated Press article the same day also covered the order.
So: How much media coverage has there been of the troubles facing Romney's (now-former) Utah finance co-chairman?

A Nexis search for "Robert Lichfield and Romney" returns only 27 hits. None in The New York Times. One brief mention in The Washington Post. Nothing for USA Today or the Associated Press. Nothing for ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC.