Shhhh...It's SECRET: Utahns calling Iowa/ LDS volunteers coming to Iowa o help Mitt

[TexasLawyer]

A long-time Mormon friend of my family will be traveling to Iowa from out-of-state to help Mitt Romney with the Iowa caucus. He'll be bringing "several relatives" with him (also working the Iowa caucus for Mitt) and staying with my Mom in Des Moines. Mom is a hard left Democrat, but too nice to say no to our family friend.

I hadn't seen much press about Mormons working for Mitt's election. Maybe it's a sensitive topic-- perhaps even "secret."


Utahns are heating up phone lines to Iowa
By Lisa Riley Roche

Deseret Morning News
Published: Sunday, Dec. 30, 2007 12:13 a.m. MST


When the telephone of an Iowa Republican rings these days, it just might be a Utah volunteer for GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney calling about Thursday's caucus vote there. The Romney for President campaign has offices in Sandy and Provo, staffed with volunteers who spend much of their time on the phone with would-be voters in the early caucus and primary states.

Often they're asking for money, but as Iowa's first-in-the-nation vote nears, the focus is on making sure that state's Republicans are ready to brave what will likely be a very cold night Thursday and cast a vote for Romney at a neighborhood caucus.

"They call voters in Iowa and try to identify people who'll be voting for my dad so we can get them out to the caucuses," said Josh Romney, one of the candidate's five sons and the only one who lives in Utah. Josh took time out from campaigning for his father in Iowa and other states last week to visit the Romney campaign office in Sandy, located near the South Towne Mall at 10150 S. Centennial Parkway.

"There's a lot of excitement," Josh said of the Utah offices, which the campaign has declared off-limits to reporters in an attempt to ensure that Romney's efforts to win Iowa votes stay secret.

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<Wha??? Keep secret that Mormons like Romney and they're volunteering for him?>



http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695239986,00.html

[Drunken Irishman]

1. I have to laugh at Mormons here in Utah.

They make a big stink about people not voting for Mitt because he's Mormon (which I think is stupid, you don't vote against someone because he happens to be Mormon), yet are only voting for him because he's Mormon. If he were Catholic (like any good person from Massachusetts would be), they wouldn't give him the time of day.

[Stephanie]

5. How do you stay drunk in Utah?

That must take some effort. :)

[Drunken Irishman]

9. The liquor store down the street.

Lucky me, we're not like some southern states where you have dry counties.

[helderheid]

11. Not much.... we just need to stock up on the days the liquor store isn't closed!

:hi:
:toast:

[helderheid]

10. hey fellow Utahn!

:hi:

[Drunken Irishman]

12. How's it going? I'm in SugarHouse, where you at?

[helderheid]

13. oh you are LUCKY!

Sandy!

www.ClaritySanderson.com

ETA, I actually love my neighborhood. :)

[Drunken Irishman]

14. I get e-mails from you all the time...haha

I'm on a list, have been on it for a while.

[helderheid]

15. UDPC?

:D

[Drunken Irishman]

16. Yup, I joined up when it first got going.

I've been so out of the loop lately, though. I feel ashamed, actually. :(

[helderheid]

17. Don't feel bad - I actually resigned quite some time ago but still end up sending alerts out!

:) PM me - I'd love to know who I'm chatting with! Did you get my New Years card today?

[Sarah Ibarruri]

2. Mormons work together like a unit. In that sense, they're like a cult. nt

They're told by the leadership of their church what to do, and by golly, they all run out there and do it.

[TexasLawyer]

3. Zombie-bot invasion

I guess the existence of numerous out-of-state Mormon volunteers might be sensitive, since it could look to the outside world like an invasion of glassy-eyed worker-bots doing as they are told.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

4. LOL! Scary! nt

[Ilsa]

6. It was bound to happen. I wonder if any mormon groups are

preaching "vote for Mitt" from the pulpit and risking their tax-exempt status?

[Subdivisions]

7. What is this? A goddamned theocracy!?! n/t

[Kip Humphrey]

18. Actually, its to bring about "the new promised land" (the U.S.)

[TexasLawyer]

8. Some bot-like Romney praise from a Utah newspaper's reader comments:

http://www.deseretnews.com/user/comments/1,5150,695239995,00.html

maybelle | 10:28 p.m. Dec. 30, 2007

Romney is the only candidate qualified to be President. He looks like a President--someone to be proud of.



viking | 12:53 a.m. Dec. 30, 2007

Romney is head and shoulders over any other candidate. Democrats fear him because he is smart, well educated, knows how to run a business, start a business, take over a losing one and making it profitable. He did a good job in Massachusetts where he set a very standard in ethics and good governance.

If he secures the nomination he will unite the country and will win the presidency. Whereas other candidates and past presidents have problem with family members, Mitt has set such a good example, his wife and are so nice that I would not mind seeing them on TV all the time. Can you say that about any of the other candidates, Democrat or Republican, in this election?