Open Source Research: Romney's $250 Million

Bumped from the diaries -- Jonathan... Good to see MyDD alumnus Kombiz Lavasany doing such good work over at the DNC. This sounds like a great project for those who have a few minutes on their hands and want to help out.

The FEC just posted millionaire Mitt Romney's financial disclosure form online. For the first time, we'll be able to see exactly where his $250 million dollar fortune is invested. But it's a big job, and we need your help. Please help us comb through the document to look for red flags, conflicts of interest, and other investments that look interesting.

We've started a thread on the Democratic Party' blog where we're asking you to let us know anything interesting that you find in Mitt Romney's financial disclosure forms.

We'll be pouring over the documents looking at the investments, conflicts of interests, and where Mitt Romney's $250 million dollars are invested, but one thing we know is that there's a wisdom to crowds and there's a lot of expertise in the online progressive community. So join us in pouring through the financial disclosure forms and let us know what you see in this thread on our blog.

Click here to see the documents.

Click here to post what you see on our blog.

Disclosure: I work for the Democratic Party.

Tags: Democratic Party, Financial Disclosure, Mitt Romney, Research (all tags)

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3 Comments

Re: Open Source Research: Romney's $250 Million

I went in and looked at the documents, and saw that he's got over 1 million in something called "Eksportfinans", a company whose website states "Export financing is offered to foreign buyers in order to make them choose Norwegian products and services."

So I tried to use your link to go to the democrats.com website and post this info, but I was stopped when I tried to log in.  I did a password reset, got a new password, and it still won't let me log in.

Dude, I'd love to be part of your project, but I'm not going to mess with a system that won't let me sign on.

by Nina Katarina 2007-08-14 08:55AM | 0 recs
Re: Open Source Research: Romney's $250 Million

Nina,

I'm looking into the problem, to see if there's something wrong with our system. My password just reset for me but I'll double check, if you want to contact me you can email me at lavasanyk at dnc d org

Thanks for going through the doc!

- kombiz

by Kombiz Lavasany 2007-08-14 09:17AM | 0 recs
Re: Open Source Research: Romney's $250 Million

I would also make sure you're going to Democrats.org, we don't own democrats.com.

by Kombiz Lavasany 2007-08-14 09:20AM | 0 recs

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