That maybe just maybe he was trying to distract from the Gloria Allred rumored October surprise.

Bank on it.

Wednesday and drop the bomb, if she has one.

someone gave Drudge a tip and he gave everyone a heads up, to force her hand.

When Romney's camp knew the horrific and documented "scissor brutalizing" story, they immediately sent Queen Ann out beforehand to "chat" with the media how Mitt had loved to pull pranks when he was young. This was to preempt the bad story.

The Trump story is to preempt the Allred story.

I believe you called this one.

T'was the FIRST thing that came to mind when I heard of the Donald's quacking!

Same hamfisted tactics he uses every year to boost his show's ratings.

But I bet it doesn't get unsealed.

I agree, Im not allowing myself to become to excited.

to throw mud to counterbalance Trump's divorce or coke sale story. If Trump's story is about divorce then the Dems win the news cycle, if it's about coke, the Thugs win it.

Don't you think?

Enough said.

She didn't want to kiss him.....

for dear life - like he was about to leave her or something.

Not sure what it's about, but really, Allred isn't that well-respected these days.

Jeez.

"The Boston Globe is headed to court tomorrow morning for an emergency hearing in an attempt to obtain a court order to unseal the sworn testimony given by Mitt Romney in a prior court case and to lift a gag order so that the parties can speak about Romney."

Two items:

1. unseal the sworn testimony given by Mitt Romney

....and....

2. lift a gag order so that the parties can speak about Romney

Remember, this is family court and there could be parties here that never felt justice got served. So, the party looking to unseal a document could just be someone looking for payback even if there is nothing really there.

respect her, but a helofalot of women do.

I've read how horribly Mi$$ has treated Mormon women...he was some kind of 'bishop' in Boston. What he said had to be obeyed.

Remember Mormon women are here for: "To bear, to rear, to love."

some kind of Mormon language? Or just German? I took French.....oooh la la!!

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I guess I strike out on all three....except I can cook when I'm in the mood...just not everyday.

Might have been invented by Kaiser Wilhelm, or it might just be an antique model of the perfect German woman, but it certainly served (so the speak) the aims of dictators.

Woman's place: bearing and caring for children, cooking for the family, and praying in the church. Period.

explains why my relatives left Germany!

What a horrible life.

She has been a huge advocate for women and their civil rights for decades upon decades, and her firm does a huge amount of pro bono work.

Because of this, I excuse her occasional grandstanding.

and if you don't think this could backfire, you're just naive.

We don't really know what it's about, so I think we shouldn't get our hopes up.

Allred has nothing to do with the Obama campaign.

She isn't a prominent surrogate or a surrogate of any kind.

If it's something damaging to Romney, great.

If it's not, it will impact people's opinion of Allred, not of Mitt, and certainly not of Obama.

but it is necessary to have some lawyers who do this in her line of work.

I doubt that the court will unseal anything without a long appeals process.

woo hoo!

Boston Globe? This could be important to the election.

a child born out of wedlock?

Best bet.

Okay, okay, idle speculation! LOL!!

that would be too damn sweet! And the baby was born in Mexico, right? Just like George Romney was born in Mexico... due to the anti-polygamy rules here in the US.

I bet it's a daughter and he didn't want her around...after all he has 5 boyz.

I like your idle speculation!

if it's not this speculation, it sure would make a very believable novel...

I think the name Rielle's already been dropped somewhere around here...

and has he supported that child, and claimed the child as a dependent? Is that why he won't release his tax records?

I like the way you think!

maybe after years of keeping them in one of the attics, they adopted them out. lol.

In Michigan, that dealt with estates, inheritance and (I think) custody matters. This sounds messy.

Would be a valid reason for a gag order. Mitt pays, no one talks.

I think Ann secretly hates him. Some people will do distasteful things for a payoff.

Romney has no enemies, but all his friends despise him intensely.

He was a beautiful man once. Most unfortunately, his insides started manifesting on his outsides. He is ugly now. (but not to the deeply, deeply closeted conservative white males who will never admit to having homoerotic fantasies).

That would involve estate matters, divorces and child custody and support issues.

I'm not optimistic that things would be unsealed, but the Globe will certainly be all over this and probably dreging up court records that could point to what's the crux of the issue at hand here.

Going to be good

We should be cautious of these type of stories. Just saying.

couple of days. Remember what Allred did to the eBay CEO woman running for gov against Jerry Brown????

Allred doesn't yell 'wolf.' And if this is in Boston where Mi$$ is NOT liked at all (400 vetos were overturned).

This could be my early Xmas present.

It was 800 vetos.

grown adult child lives in Boston and she visits him often and kept up with MA politics. She told me it was 400, but I can go with 800!

Of course, it could be anything. He could have testified as a character witness in someone else's domestic case, for instance.

If this undermines Mitt's clean image as a "good family man" then Mitt's presidential hopes will go up in flames.

if the gag order is lifted then the injured party can begin spilling the beans immediately.

speculation and mistrust

Totally agree! Allred is acting on behalf of her client not anyone else. Wondering what will come of it, if anything is just human nature.

lucky Ulwick

Anyone know?

Maybe because it involved a juvenile who is now an adult? Can they ask for that after they reach their majority?

Family court plus gag order doesn't look good for Willard.

What are the chances the gag order will be lifted and the testimony will be unsealed?

until sometime next decade.

BUT, when we learn the identify of her client, who is apparently under a gag order, we can work backwards and it might prove interesting. Does the client look like Mitt? Does she/he have a child which could be Mitt's? Was Mitt a party or a witness?

The man has more money than God. Gag orders are usually used when money is involved: If you talk about the case, you have to pay the money back. What kind of case went far enough that Mitt had to testify? And then pay her off? Or did he testify about something in connection with his chruch duties? Or is it a contested probate matter and he testified about what the deceased told him s/he wanted done with his/her property?

I got nothing.

We are winning. Why do we need this type of stuff? It appears desperate.

This is a free country correct?

They should get a tip if she's truly the supporter she claims to be

Don't know if was related or she was just handing him a political donation, but the timing's certainly interesting. And then there is the odd Trump thing coming tomorrow. Coincidence? I think not.

I'm not buying that the President met with her. This seems to me to be a case of trying to tie him to whatever dirt comes out about Mitt.

I hope the MSM won't start hounding him/her. Regardless of who the parents are, the child is innocent. I also think the right-wing hate is so intense for the President, they don't care what comes out about Mitt, they're still going to vote for him.

the wdnutz, of course. Byline: jerome corsi

Gloria Allred reportedly met with President Obama during a campaign fundraiser at the Nokia Theater in L.A. earlier this month.
She told TMZ about the meeting, “I just thanked him for being the great president that he is and let him know the work that I do. And he indicated that he was very well aware of the work that I do and liked the work that I did and was very very kind.”
She added, “He said to the people there ‘she is one of the best attorneys in our country.’ So that was very very kind of him.”



http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/13231337-republicans-scared-of-proobama-lawyer-gloria-allreds-october-surprise

I would like to know.

If it's something really useful, the WH doesn't want to look like they are in collusion.

If she truly has something, she just needs to get it out there.

citizen who wishes to speak publicly.

they should be okay. And given that it is happening in Massachusetts, it is quite likely OFA will ignore it.

only the client has the right to ask her to stand down.

at one time or another.



Tikki

First, the jurisdiction of the Family and Probate court includes the following: wills, trusts and related matters. Also family law issues including divorce, support, custody and adoptions.

Second, earlier this year a couple of Boston Globe reporters wrote a book about Romney that claimed that he had pressured an unmarried women in his church to put her baby up for adoption. It could be that there was another adoption case or custody case in which Romney, in his role as a church leader, testified and his testimony, which was put under seal, will make him look bad. The fact that its the Globe that is seeking to unseal the testimony makes this a plausible speculation.

than out of wedlock kids ... he would go to great lengths, I think, to pay off in such a situation and be sure it wouldn't come back to haunt him. But his influence in another case might be something out there.

kind of "spiritual" coercion.

If it could be shown that he pressured a woman to give up their child for adoption that could keep a lot religious folks from bothering to go vote for him.

and he will cry ala Jimmy Swaggart I have sinned all will be forgiven and they will say we are being petty This shit only hurts democrats

SICK of pusillanimous Democrats.

Obama withstood the heat, and set the bar pretty fucking high.

If you can't stand the heat, don't sit in the seat.

The lying sack of corporate shit has it coming.......every single bit of it.

Let 'er rip!

They would drag out some old Jeremiah Wright footage to counter, no doubt.