Here we go, Gloria
Famed civil rights attorney Gloria Allred will be in a Boston area courtroom Wednesday in an attempt to unseal the sworn testimony given by Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, in a prior court case, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.
“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. Gloria Allred will be in court representing one of the parties in the case,” a source close to the situation tells RadarOnline.com.
The emergency hearing will take place at the Norfolk Probate & Family Court in Canton, Massachusetts, and Justice Jennifer Ulwick will oversee the proceedings which will begin at 9 a.m. EST.
As previously reported, Drudge Report founder and respected politico, Matt Drudge, tweeted Thursday: “Here she comes. Hearing Gloria Allred out there again, about to make a move. After all, it’s her time of the campaign. Team O at the ready!!”
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Oh, Mitt. The humanity. The humanity.
Gary Gordon was right:
Everyone’s a Criminal
by
Gary Gordon
When I was very young
My Uncle Mel got sick.
My father said, “Before he’s dead,
Let’s visit the old prick.”
“You never know,” continued dad,
“This world is full of swill,
And since old Mel’s a cheapskate,
He might cut us from his will.”
So we went down to the hospital
Where he was hooked to a machine,
Uncle Mel didn’t look too good
He was shrivelled up and green.
We all made stupid small talk
As we sat around his bed,
But when Mom and Dad went out for some air
I stayed with Mel instead.
The minute my folks left the room
Old Mel’s eyes seemed to clear,
He grinned and pulled me toward him
and whispered in my ear.
“Sonny boy, when I was young,
‘Bout the same age you are now,
I thought that Right would always win
And that Truth would shine somehow.
But now that I’m a sick old fart
And I’ve learned a thing or two,
Take these tips from Uncle Mel
‘Cause I’d never lie to you.
Everyone’s a criminal,
Everyone’s a con,
Your Mom, your pop, your cousin Mitch,
The list goes on and on.
Everyone is guilty
of some stupid little crime,
Like spitting on the sidewalk,
I do it all the time.
And everyone’s a pencil thief
No matter what they make.
When Congress meet they legislate
How many bribes to take.
And what about them preachers
who tell you what life means,
While all of your donations
buy them nice new limousines
And everyone’s a sodomist
Who’s given head a try.
If they gave the chair for tonguing it,
Then most of us would fry.
And everyone’s a litterbug,
Who hasn’t left some poop
For someone else to step in
‘Cause they didn’t use a scoop.
And everyone’s forgotten
Some income here and there,
Like that ten bucks Gramma sent
You figured nobody would care.
And everyone has jaywalked
And never even paused
To think about the ten car crash
Their careless rush just caused.
Everyone has loitered
Or trespassed once or twice,
Or lied on an insurance form
Or played a little dice.
Everyone’s a bookie,
The papers give the spread,
Your pop has got it eight to five
That I never leave this bed.
Yeah, I know that they’re all schemers,
They’d love to see me kick,
But Uncle Mel is no one’s fool
I’ve still got one last trick.
You’re the only one that I can trust,
So here’s what I will do,
Before I go, just so you know,
I’m leaving it all to YOU!”
Well, I just stood there speechless,
Then gave old Mel a hug,
And as I wiped a tear away
I pulled out Uncle’s plug.
Jack, your Muse called and said she has revoked your poetic license on the grounds of 1) irrelevant silliness; 2) vulgarity without redeeming value; 3) gross pessimism; and 4) sheer waste of readers’ time.
counsel4pay
That was not my muse, because I do not have a muse.
Also, that was not my poem, it was some guy named Gary Gordon, who may have worked for National Lampoon or Harvard Lampoon.
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell also supposedly worked for Harvard Lampoon. Unless he went by the nom de plum, or should I say, nom de poem “Gary Gordon,” its also fair to say that what I copied and properly attributed to Gary Gordon is a damn sight better than anything that Mr. O’Donnell has ever written or said – published in writing or published over the airwaves.
And, thus, I move that you Reconsider the merits of the aforementioned poem, which I submitted for the consideration of you and others, as not being a waste of the reader’s time because:
1) It highlights the triviality of Mitt Romney allegedly defying a park ranger’s “order” not to launch a watercraft upon the Waters of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts;
2) It familiarizes more people with a poem I read 25 years ago and which still ocassionally pops in my mind;
3) It highlights the banality of Lawrence O’Donnell and MSNBC for hiring him.
If all else fails, I beg your mercy and insist upon an NEA grant. Either of the following NEAs will do just fine: National Endowment for the Arts or National Education Association. So will NRA grants.
[...] noted attention seeker Gloria Allred is planning to drop her own bomb on Romney [...]
I think today may be the first time anyone has heard Obama make claim to a 2nd term agenda. The entire time he’s been campaiging (for a year and a half?) it’s been what a great job he’s doing and more recently what a bottom feeder Romney is.
Personally, I’ve become absolutely numb to all the feces the left and Obama has been slinging. It’s like watching MTV every day, eventually you start losing IQ points. It just doesn’t stick and I really don’t care. Jerry Sandusky could be the nominee and I’d still vote against Obama.
Jerry Sandusky or Trigg Palin are many people’s preferred candidate Over Obama.
Famed media whore is more like it. If the courts allow this then dammit…flipping obama has to release every damn thing that he’s been hiding. Otherwise…this is a non-story.
According to LifeNews.com, it might be that Mitt, as a Mormon Bishop, tried to talk a woman out of an abortion.
See:
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/23/will-october-surprise-show-romney-talking-woman-out-of-abortion/
Of course, if this is the case, it raises a number of questions:
1) Do religious leaders sometimes counsel their fellow adherants not to have an abortion, not use medical marijuana, stay with a difficult (and possibly abusive) spouse, refrain from fornication or other sexual acts?
2) Did Romney exercise undue influence?
3) Did she have the abortion?
4) Did she have the child?
5) What did Gloria Allred do to get this woman to pull a “Sandra Fluke” and thrust her private life into the national spotlight?
6) Did Gloria Allred exercise undue influence?
7) What do Gloria Allred’s clients and former clients have to say about her “legal services?”
8) DID NOT GLORIA ALLRED EXPOSE SOMEONE’S HOUSEKEEPER to the risk of being deported or fined or incarcerated to score political points, even though Gloria’s highest duties would have been to the client?
9) What about that well endowed banker who may have been fired for flaunting her cleavage? Was she satisfied with Gloria Allred’s services?
9) Amber Frey (of Scott Peterson fame)?
10) Other clients?
11) Are our elections now going to constantly have this evil, shrill attorney as a storm cloud? Would someone please investigate her???????? [Did she ever do divorce work? That might be fertile ground for excessively zealous advocacy.].
If Republican-minded lawyers in California and Massachusetts are not willing to do their part to investigate and defend against the likes of Gloria Allred and Elizabeth Warren, then it is time to revisit opposition research (even though Allred is technically not an opposing candidate).
Why would Allred represent the Boston Globe? Don’t they have their own lawyers for this? Something seems fishy.
Non story, and the electorate will not care.
Mitt doesn’t seem worried. At all. He has been through the gauntlet against Democrats before, I don’t think there is a skeleton out there left that can bring him down. That isn’t to say Allred won’t try to blow whatever this is out of proportion with the help of the media.
I think this would taint Obama, who already looks increasingly desperate. The women who would be inclined to believe Allred are already voting for Obama. I suspect the rest will see this for what it is, a last ditch effort to save a failing campaign.
In a just world, Marilyn Monroe would still be alive and Gloria Allred would have left us in 1962.
And, even if you are staunchly pro-life, doesn’t looking at Gloria Allred and her lawyer daughter (who sued the Boy Scouts of America over its unentheusiastic approach to gay Scoutmasters and Assistant Scoutmasters), make you think that in some instances, partial birth abortion is just fine.
O Lord, why hast thou inflicted Gloria Allred, the 11th Plague, upon us? Please do not turn a deaf ear to our prayers and supplications, and forgive our sins.
[Maybe Gloria Allred's existence is the reason the Muslims hate us. We need to send her to Guantanimo, for the good of the cuntry, of course.].
I meant to add:
Given the way that Gloria Allred has exploited (and essentially betrayed) her female clients, we all know who is the perpetrator of the Real War on Women.
Gloria Allred is to women’s rights what Gloria Vanderbilt, Gloria Swanson, Gloria Gaynor and Van Morrison, U2, and Laura Branigan’s respective Glorias were to our efforts to defeat communism, fascism, and polio. [And, that is being generous to Gloria Allred].
Someone build a dossier on how Gloria Allred has “served” her clients!!!!!
Well, they haven’t gotten any less sleazy since they decided to disqualify Barack Obama’s opponent for the Senate, have they?
Help me, please. why would a minister’s counseling of a woman not to have an abortion end up in family court? how could it be the court’s business unless the woman asked the court to intervene in a private or religious matter. Was the woman asking the court to overturn religious doctrine or something? pretty stupid…leave the church and get your abortion.
And if Mitt was a party to having the records sealed, isn’t he a party to having them opened or not?
Thirdly, what’s the emergency to open the records if not to do harm to one or more of the parties?
Fourthly, it would be a story if Mitt had counseled her to get an abortion.
“[T]he Police Log from the June 18, 1981 edition of the Natick Sun reported as follows:
Game Warden William Erickson . . . .”
So, I guess it was not a “dickless tracy” afterall and Gloria Allred’s possible involvement in uncovering a boat-launching crime would have nothing to do with with women, unless:
1) Mitt launched the boat over the protests of his wife, or
2) Game Warden William Erickson was really Game Warden Willamena Erickson until she pulled a Chastity Boner and had an addadicktomy procedure.
Factoid/Trivia:
In case you ever get on Jeopardy and this question comes up, Google Has 853 results (some being duplicates, no doubt) if you Google the following search:
“Gloria Allred is a c___”
This is what they are saying over at HotAir so what gives?
“Gloria Allred is looking to get court documents related to a nasty divorce unsealed. Apparently, Romney had to testify or made a statement to the court. He must have known the husband in some capacity. My guess is Allred will trot out her client who will say that she was beaten up by her husband and Romney’s testimony in court prevented her husband from being locked up.”
That’s IT? Whoopdedoo.
Easy, JRT. Easy.
It raises some questions about Mitt Romney, but raises a lot more questions about the divorcing wife, Gloria Allred, etc.
This could end up being Gloria Allred’s Waterloo. Lots of ins and outs that I do not wish to telegraph to Ms. Allred.
Mark Halperin has a little blip on this. 25/26 years ago Romney Testified (a divorce case) as to the value of the company STAPLES. allred is in Boston,Ma. apearing in in court today in hopes of unsealing these divorce documents. By the way according to Romney’s lawyer, Romney has no objection to these documents being unsealed. Ace has a theory if your interested Pam
People here are giving way too much credence to Allred. I used to be a journalist.. she’s a joke.
The Sandra Fluke controversy can teach us a lesson here. There’s a certain percentage of Obama die-hards who are going to vote for him no matter what. They are like religious adherents stubbornly clinging to their pathetic Groupthink. These people are incapable of evaluating a Sandra Fluke or an Elizabeth Warren or a Gloria Allred and immediately be overwhelmed by their lies, partisanship, hypocrisy, condescension and the associated soiling.
Obama may have overestimated how far he can successfully push issues like this. There was a news story up a couple of days ago about Sandra Fluke making a well-publicized appearance in (I think) Nevada. It was attended by a whopping crowd of about ten people. And I must say Fluke, Allred and Warren are all repugnant to me.
Is it at all certain that Gloria Allblue is out to assist Obama specifically? If she’s in Boston, could she be out to sink Scott Brown?
This from “Alex The Chick”- A Lawyer..
Mandatory disclaimer time: Not licensed in Mass., not licensed in your jurisdiction, not your lawyer, any information given is general in nature and speculative.
In theory, there is supposed to be a pretty high burden to get a gag order lifted or a seal broken on a sealed case. That’s because, in theory, there’s a pretty high burden to get the gag order/seal issued in the first place. Remember, the presumption is that anything in the court system, with the exception of juvenile criminal records, is considered to be public record. Someone has to go to a judge, ask for the gag order/seal to be issued and give a damn good reason why.
Note I said in theory. Depending on the jurisdiction, and I know nothing at all about Mass., records are routinely sealed for matters involving a minor or where financial information is at issue. However, in those circumstances you better show a very compelling reason indeed to get those orders lifted.
Now to parse the story. This is in family court so it could be estate, child support/custody, divorce proceeding, things of that ilk. This says it’s seeking testimony given by Romney under oath. That’s interesting phrasing. It could be court testimony or it could be a deposition. There’s also nothing that says that Romney was a party to the suit and from the phrasing of the article, which you would assume was vetted six ways from Sunday by the attorneys before it ran, it indicates to me that Romney was a witness, not a party.
This is all blatantly uninformed speculation on my part, of course. But my guess is that it’s not the abortion story because an IIED case wouldn’t be before family court. Maybe the woman tried to get the child back? I vaguely recall that she put the child up for adoption though that could be wrong.
As far as how does Allred know, gag orders do not apply to information given to counsel in the course of representation. Thus whoever this is would be able to tell Allred about it and it is even possible that they may have a copy of whatever the testimony is.
Frankly, unless it’s a love child or a live boy situation, Allred’s better off with the motion being denied. Then there’s total speculation without confirmation as to what’s in it, thus letting the oh noes sister wives speculation continue. Romney is in the worst possible position as he cannot counter without being in violation himself.
Were I the judge? The hearing would begin with some very pointed questions as to just how it was that this hearing became public. Once a gag order/seal is issued, everything about the case is supposed to be out of the public eye, even hearings on the matter. I’d be walking in itching to throw someone in jail.
Oh and I do agree there’s at least a 90+% chance this is going to be lifted.
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One with boyparts – http://bit.ly/TpyPKD
Pinkbullet,
I am married to a great woman and have two lovely children (even if adolescence is starting to rear its ugly head).
I have never cheated on my wife, and do not have it on my list of hobbies for the rest of 2012 or 2013, but . . .
I think I am starting to fall in love with you.
Don’t know about the tiny url to the boy parts, but the link to the photo of Christina Hendricks is great. Her character on Mad Men really shatters everything.
Now, as for the rest of what you wrote, I simply do not know what to think or say. All I know is that we live in fickle times where symbolism seems to trump substance. In legalease, I guess it would be called elevating form over substance.
Alex the Lawyer may be able to provide more clarification.
Please forgive me for objectifying your intellect, but it is hot.
Hang tough with your hopes about both the public realm and the private realm of your life. But for the tough days, we would never know the good days.
Life is a journey and we hopefully learn that victory lies not at some high place along the way, but in having made the journey.
Get a room. Maybe she’ll show up, maybe not. Don’t hold your breath.
Well we see a familiar MO don’t we. Allred trouts out an allegation, but does so with very little time left in the election so it cannot be completely disproved. of course the one slight problem with Allred is that if the gag order is lifted, EVERYONE can talk. I bet the Romney campaign is already ready to fight back.
Not to mention that the moment she steps in front of the camera, there are going to be bloggers who are going to go happy hunting and destroy her carefully crafted narrative within the next 12 or 24 hours. Nothing is set in stone the moment she opens her mouth anymore.
(Too many of those people never learned anything from the fake Bus TANG memos, obviously.)
It would be hilarious if Judge Ulwick told Gloria that she’ll rule on her request after the election, because she won’t allow Ms Allred and her client to hijack her courtroom from the purpose of political theater.
Oh, Gloria, BTW. Sorry. Benghazi got ya!
White House Told Al-Qaeda Assoicated Group Took Credit For Benghazi Attack Within Two Hours
E-mails of exchange at GretaWire.
So, Gloria, you probably won’t give a rat about a certain dead Ambassador, but you definitely care about “lady parts”…
This must be it
http://m.tmz.com/article_head.ftl?id=http://www.tmz.com/2012/10/23/mitt-romney-divorce-thomas-stemberg-maureen-staples-gloria-allred-boston-globe/
WHOA!!! Stop the Presses! This may be it!
Via Ace:
TMZ: Boston Globe, Gloria Allred Trying to Unseal Court Records In Someone Else’s Divorce; Got Tip Record Contains “Juicy Information” About Romney
Please.
Again, show me a:
1. woman with a love-child;
2. a dead girl; or
3. a live boy.
Otherwise, I won’t bite.
I’m not licensed to practice in MA, and in the 4 states where I am licensed, I stay the hell away from domestic law matters. In probate and guardianship it is routine for filings to be sealed. I don’t really have an informed opinion about the batting average on efforts to unseal. I realize it sure worked to hurt Jack Ryan in IL (via CA).
Romney’s people should assume the worst, and expect that whatever it is, it will be released by the court, or Allred will leak it with plausible deniabilty, if the court orders it to remain sealed.
So, were I Romney’s counsel at the hearing tomorrow I would put any and all possible witnesses on the stand, including Allred to establish who has knowledge of the sealed information, and how they obtained the information. Mind you, this would not be about the information itself, but about the dissemination of the information which is sealed (for the time being). I would nail that down before the Judge rules, to exert the maximum suasion against the folks who might be inclined to leak the information, even if the Judge rules against them.
I think Allred is a despicable POS, reason # 876,239,173 in the endless series of examples which explain why people hate lawyers.
Emil,
POS?
Feces is an inanimate chunk of matter lacking in sentience and choice.
Gloria Allred ostensibly has some control over her choices in life.
On behalf of feces everywhere, I object to you slandering and disparaging feces by comparing it to Gloria Allred.
Feces meant no harm and does not try to aggrandize itself.
Gloria . . . . . .
P.S. – Which is more dangerous, being between Chuck Schumer and a camera/microphone or being between Gloria Allred and a camera/microphone?
Sooo…. Allred’s big story is about a 25 year old divorce and an ex-wife who made crappy financial decisions and pissed away the bulk of her settlement looking for more loot? And somehow Romney is responsible for her irresponsibility because he didn’t know what the value of Staple’s stock would be when it went public a couple of years down the road?
Yeah, that’s going to play well with the undecided voters.
If there ever was a woman you could call ‘dirt’ without offending the sensibilities of any gentlemen or lady, it’s this scumbag.
I’ve never taken the measure of somebody from that perspective, but you’re absolutely right.
Let me guess, the ex-wife will claim abuse and maybe be backed by a friend or two. Won’t have any actual proof of anything bad happening, but it will be enough for the media to move on the story.
With what’s coming out about Benghazi and radical Islamacist visits to the WH, both the obastard campaign and the media desperately need and want the distraction.
Radical Islamacists visit the WH in droves for months. Our consulate is begging for help. Other friendly entities have abandoned the region as the security breaches and threats amp up. The very day of the attack, our consulate sent a last desperate missive pleading for help. Our compound in Benghazi is attacked on 9/11. The situation room at the WH gets full confirmation and real time footage starting within two hours of the commencement of the attack. obastard sat there for seven hours as the attack raged on and never ordered drone strikes or reinforcements of any kind. He sat while the Islamacists finished their business and having their way with our people.
How much was o paid by the Islamic radical factions to allow this devastating attack on and humiliation to America?
The media will refuse to make these connections, but they need something, anything, they can spin into a bigger headline to distract from the growing cynicism about this attack.
Enter Gloria Allred and another aggrieved female.
Note that there is a Maureen Stemberg who posts a lot of anti Romney anti Mormon rubbish over at Puffington Host and who claims to know Mitt and Ann. She sounds like a bitter nutcase who can’t let go 25 years later.
As far as Mitt is concerned this may be a case of no good deed going unpunished. Ace found a 1996 story in the Boston papers not available on line through the paper but which was copied in its entirety at what appears to be a fashion blog. The original reporter was not sympathetic. Neither were most of the comments on the blog.
http://forum.purseblog.com/general-discussion/should-wealthy-executives-ex-wife-get-more-money-44446.html
Good catch.
Reading the link, it doesn’t look like there’s going to be much meat on the bones of the story as it relates to Romney. Allred and Stemberg, her ostensible “client” (and make no mistake that the real client is obastard), will puff this up like the Hindenburg to get as much distraction and smear mileage out of it they can, which will be a lot in view of the media’s desperation to talk about anything but Benghazi.
From the linked article (and great find, BTW): “She produces doctors notes detailing medical woes…plus recommendations for thrice weekly psychotherapy and psychiatry.”
Sometimes you get little clues.
Dear GOP Establishment:
In the unlikely event anything legitimately scurrilous about Romney emerges from this fiasco, you will pay for it. Heavily.
You ran off (the nicest way to describe the nukes you dropped) Newt Gingrich in no small part because of phony, Democrat-cunard “character issues.” You presented Romney as the Perfect Candidate.
If it turns out Romney was hiding something awful, and you didn’t know about it, or even worse — ignored it…well, prepare for a blowback that will finish off your GOP dominance, and probably the Republican Party itself.
Hugs and kisses,
Battered-Republican Conservative
Pathetic.
“Gloria?” More like “Whoria?”
Dear CalMark-
Stop with the bs. You’re no Republican conservative. Even Newt is one board with Mitt now.
Dear FenelonSpoke:
My negative commentary is based on two decades (nine in the military, three in Chicago, the rest in the SF Bay Area) of watching the bad guys win almost 100% of the time. By “bad guys,” I mean corrupt military and civilian officials. (And no, it’s not navel-gazing: most of it has to do with monstrous breaches of propriety and ethics having nothing to do with me.) No matter what they did/do, they seem to get away with it.
Conspiracies (in one case cheerfully admitted to by a JAG who had been “bought off” with career promises), voter fraud, abuse of power, open and brazen corruption: I’ve seen enough of it to write a whole series of books.
My negativity and cynicism are honestly gotten. I don’t mean to annoy people around here. But my observations of the scene have never given me much reason for optimism.
Never discount what the democrats might do. Look at what they did to Herman Cain…
Herman Cain, whom I supported, whose horrific and egregious crimes against humanity…
…suddenly became irrelevant, just dried up and blew away, when Cain dropped out of public view.
For Boston Globe read New York Times. The Boston Globe has been owned by The New York Times Company since 1993.
Why is it that Obama’s many, many sealed records are inviolate but this potential harmful nugget is vulnerable?
In addition to that… Why is it the press can so easily investigate what Sarah Palin painted in her high school ceramics class, but they can’t report on Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s investigation and proof of multiple forged Obama/Soetoro documents?
The silence is deafening!
The fecklessness by the GOP ‘establishment’ in chasing down the details of Obama’s fake life is as horrifying as a communist with a falsified mainstream life being elected president.
We’re only as safe as our ‘police department.’ (Those ‘police’ used to include the press. Obviously, not anymore.)
Obama’s Signature Move: Unsealing Private Records
http://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2012/08/01/obamas_signature_move_unsealing_private_records/page/full/
Speaking of unsealing private records, Donald Trump has some info he has said he will reveal later today regarding Obama. Seems he has divorce documents that Michelle filed in 2000. Trump has been married and divorced more times than most of us have, so I think he realizes that a straightforward divorce should not be a major problem for a politician.
However — if Michelle alleged habitual drug use, a sexually transmitted disease, mental or physical abuse of herself or her daughters, or infidelity with an individual or individuals of other than the female gender, it could be, as Vice President Biden would say a “big f—ing deal.”
I should add that the divorce story is a rumor, not something I have confirmed.
Thanks NC Mountain Girl for the link.
If it is the Stemburg divorce, it appears Gloria Allred is slipping.
Ms. Sullivan Stemberg was worth $5 million at the time of the divorce and spent $4 million pursuing the divorce???
Mitt Romney supposedly has no objection to the testimony being unsealed.
Ms. Stemberg lives in an upscale $62,400 a year apartment/condo and her ex-husband pays for her health insurance and has provided for their child via a trust.
How did Gloria Allred land this client?
Will Gloria Allred actually help this women get more alimony/support or is this woman going to be one more female client of Gloria Allred who gets used by Gloria and then ditched when media attention moves on?
Does Gloria Allred really think this is going to impact the election or is she just aggrandizing herself for another 15 minutes of fame?
Does Gloria Allred really care about women? If so, why hasn’t she taken her considerable tenacity, perseverance and pugnacity and moved to African, the Arab world, or South Central Asia, where women get treated like dogs and 12-year-old girls get shot simply for trying to obtain elementary education?
The stench of Democrat desperation is stifling.