There Goes Another One

A top Utah fund-raiser for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign - who has links to an organization facing a civil lawsuit alleging child abuse - is no longer part of Romney's state finance team.

Robert Lichfield of La Verkin, who founded the umbrella group called the Worldwide Association of Specialty Schools, brought in some $300,000 earlier this year for Romney during a single Utah event and has donated tens of thousands to the former Massachusetts governor and other Republicans in recent years.

Lichfield is named in a federal lawsuit charging that students of the "behavior modification" schools with ties to WWASPS were subjected to "physical abuse, emotional abuse and sexual abuse." The suit had 140 defendants at last count.

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The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Utah, alleges brazen acts of child abuse, including that students of the various programs had been forced to eat their own vomit, clean toilets with a toothbrush and brush their teeth afterward, were chained or locked in dog cages, kicked, beaten, thrown and slammed to the ground and forced into sexual acts.

  Salt Lake Tribune

He wasn't just a fund-raiser. He was co-chairman of Romney's Utah finance committee. If Lichfield is convicted, do you suppose Twit will give all that money to charity? (Maybe as reparations to the abused students?) Or will he take Pat Kennedy's stance on Hsu: Hey, the donated money isn't illegal; I'm keeping it.

Twit's been losing some real losers since he started campaigning for President. Jay Garrity, aide and director of operations, was busted for impersonating a cop. Larry I-AM-NOT-GAY Craig was a co-chairman for Twit's campaign. And now Lichfield. What are the odds that so many would be on one politician's team to begin with? John McCain may hold the record for losing campaign staff, but not because they were caught in some illegal activity.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.