EXCLUSIVE: Romney Bundler A Registered Foreign Agent For Hong Kong

[ProSense]

EXCLUSIVE: Romney Bundler A Registered Foreign Agent For Hong Kong

By Josh Israel

Newly released lobbyist bundler disclosure records filed by the Mitt Romney campaign show that Tom Loeffler raised at least $17,500 in bundled contributions for the campaign over the first six months of 2012. Loeffler, a former Republican U.S. Representative from Texas and a lobbyist at Akin Gump represents a wide array domestic clients including USAA, NextgenID, and the Texas Association for Home Care & Hospice. But a ThinkProgress review of Foreign Agent Registration Act reveals that Loeffler registered in February as a registered agent for a foreign government: the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC).

The agreement — signed by Loeffler — stipulated that, from February 13 through June 30, 2012, he would “protect, promote, assist and develop Hong King’s economic and trade interests in the United States of America” by working with Congress and the executive branch. In exchange, the HKTDC agreed to pay Akin Gum $35,775 per month. The Romney bundling all took place during the time Loeffler was under this initial contract, though it is unclear whether the contract was renewed at the end of June.

Loeffler has a long history of raising money for Republican presidential candidates. In 2008, Loeffler stepped down from his position as a national finance co-chair for John McCain’s campaign when Newsweek discovered that he had lobbied on behalf of Saudi Arabia. But Romney’s campaign has welcomed him back into the campaign fundraising fold.

Romney’s campaign, while being highly critical of China and the Obama administration’s approach to it, has organized campaign fundraising events in Hong Kong for U.S. citizens living there. He has also come under fire for apparently profiting from Bain investments in a company that provides surveillance cameras for the Chinese government to spy on its own citizens.

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http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/07/25/578531/romney-bundler-registered-foreign-agent-hong-kong/

[gopiscrap]

1. What do you expect

all GOP operatives are crooked as shit, how do you thinkl they got to where they are with out exhibiting anti- societal skills?

[uponit7771]

2. Is this a bundler for a PAC?

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Keep peeling back those layers

Expose! Expose!

[patrice]

4. Look at Loeffler's resume; here's the tip of the FOREIGN money buying the US Presidency & it wants:

1. U.S. wages down (so that U.S. workers will stop bitching about China buying up the U.S.A. and become the obedient peasant slaves that we're supposed to be).

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2. Old people GONE (because Home Care is out of the public sight/out of the public mind and Hospice is the final solution to a WHOLE BUNCH of problems).

You all ever wonder why Hippies are attacked on this board so frequently? WE'RE OLD AND AWARE.

[tk2kewl]

5. AKA RED CHINA