A Utah Republican activist is accused of raping four women — two of whom say they were taken to the Heber cabin where the man hosted major political events.
Gregory Nathan Peterson, 37, of Orem, was charged Wednesday in 3rd District Court in Salt Lake City with 23 felony counts, including rape and kidnapping, and two misdemeanors. A jail log indicates U.S. marshals arrested Peterson in his home in Heber and booked him into the Salt Lake County jail. He remained there Thursday in lieu of $750,000 bail.
Charging documents allege sexual assaults against four women Peterson met in Salt Lake County beginning March 26, 2011. In the first case, the documents allege, he met a woman at a church function and she agreed to go to a movie with him.
But instead of going to a theater, the documents allege, Peterson told the woman he had a gun and took her to his five-bedroom, five-bathroom, 3,000-square-foot cabin in Heber. The documents allege he sexually assaulted the woman and hit her when she did not do as he wished. Peterson drove the woman back to her vehicle the next morning.
Peterson’s Heber cabin is where he has held annual Republican barbecues and gatherings.
God what a fucking pig! It is EXACTLY this kind of son-of-a-bitch that gives men everywhere a bad name.
But you know what I am NOT going to damn Mitt Romney for his association with this piece of garbage. After all how was he to know?
Besides what kind of middle school idiot would try to smear somebody just for who they once associated with?
Peterson’s Facebook page featured several photos of him with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Texas Rep. Ron Paul and South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint.
Peterson has billed himself online as a "close personal friend of the Romney family," and posted video on Youtube of Romney speaking at a 2007 fundraiser at Romney’s home in Deer Valley. He contributed $2,300 to the Romney campaign that year. In addition, he posted several photos of himself and Romney on his Facebook page.
Yep, sure is good thing that we are above that blaming by association thing. Don'tcha think?
Sorry to nitpick, but where are you getting that he's a "Tea Party" activist? I see the GOP connection, but where did you see he was associated with the Tea Party specifically?
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Sorry to nitpick,and it may be that I am just not seeing it,but where does it say Tea Party in the above piece?
DeleteTo 7:51 -- The headline this morning read "Utah Tea Party Activist...", but that's been changed to Utah GOP Activist.
DeleteWhat? He never spent time with Sarah or her girls? That must be a relief to Her Heinous. The hits just keep on coming for Mitt, don't they? Good, if he has to defend himself, he won't spend the day lying about the President.
ReplyDeletePallin' around with rapists?
ReplyDeleteAhhh, Mittens is pallin around with rapists, awesome.
ReplyDeleteSarah says "What's the big dill? Just boys being boys"
ReplyDeleteGood one.
DeleteI bet he will become a GOP Tea Party folk hero like George Zimmerman. He made their War On Women even more of a reality.
ReplyDeleteKarl Rove would be all over this if it was Obama standing next to this guy. Why should we be above it at this point?
ReplyDelete"Boys will be boys," eh, $arah?
ReplyDeleteShoe's on the other foot now; watch the Rev. Wright rhetoric die down because of this. Going to share this with all my Facebook friends. Thanx.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it will die down.
DeleteEverything about Barack Obama is "different" and they will never see that what sets their hair on fire about him is ok when it is their guy.
It really is IOKIYAR to the extreme.
Can you imagine how they would react if the President refused to release his tax returns?
And this from Doctor Seuss:
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And Stephen King has this to say to Robme:
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Nice.
DeleteMustard?
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Luckovich draws a great Rmoney!
DeleteHere's the creeps Facebook page, it is public, and women who've had other encounters with him are leaving lots of comments while he's in jail...awesome.
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It is now down. But thanks for the link anyway :)
DeleteIt's not down
DeleteIt's down for me here in AK.
DeleteSorry to go off topic Gryph, but I couldn't resist:
ReplyDelete- The Huffington Post story on Ann Romney's interview has over 60 000 comments, mostly negative.
- A reader comment just posted on Andrew Sullivan's blog says that imports from Burma were banned at the time Romney's Olympic uniforms were made - with a link to the Treasury Dept site.
Dayum!
DeleteThe Treasury Department!!!
And I thought it was hot here! Can Mittens stand this "Seat of Heat" until the convention? Oh, man. Keeping up with his tax/ethical issues is wearing me out.
How could this clown have thought running for president was a good idea? Makes me want to see Sarah Palin run.
And 60000 comments?!! I hope they have that stored on a cloud.
Even his kids told him it was a bad idea this time around.
DeleteAnd as Sarah kept reminding us in 2008, you know and can judge a man by the company he keeps....
ReplyDeleteMore fuel to use against the right wingers… I’m stockpiling.
ReplyDeletePut it next to your stockpile of popcorn and liquor. It is going to be a fun convention season.
DeleteI am having a blast already, Daisydem!
DeleteRmoney's kinda pitiful, ain't he?
Bless his heart.
Hmmmmm. now let's see.... if we were to blame someone for who they associated with, would it be more or less justifiable to blame someone (whose politics we don't like) for an association that occurred more than 30 years ago, in their youth, or with someone whose questionable actions occurred thirty years ago and who since then has been a laudable citizen?
ReplyDeleteYeah, Rmoney isn't a great judge of character, and this association is about criminal actions that are bi-partisanly condemned, not just politically different or radical.
Hmmmmm.
DeleteThat's some nice salad. That first sentence is really a runner.
Sarah?
I just changed my headline from "tea party activist" to "GOP activist" to reflect the changes in the Salt Lake Tribune article.
ReplyDeleteHowever last night when I typed this out, it absolutely DID identify him as a "tea party activist."
I have no idea why it changed.
Gryphen - The Rmoney spin doctors are in full damage control mode!!
DeleteSalt Lake is taking orders from Romney.
DeleteOh, Mitt you are such a great judge of character. But this must be some kind of mistake! Peterson is white, attends church, gives to your cause. How could he be a rapist? Of course Mitt will never speak of this in public. This is not important: he has money to raise, dancing horses to root for in the olympics, lies to tell, people to look down upon, etc. etc. What a loser!
ReplyDeleteIs That "Little Offended Annie" Rmoney rubbing up against him?
ReplyDeleteThe Rmoneys sure do like to pal around with rapists!
BTW Rev Wright is a decorated war hero who served his country bravely during Nam instead of fleeing to France.
Little Rabbit
Love your moniker for Anne. I am totally stealing that!
DeleteMe too!
DeleteOh please do, I would be honored if anyone did!
DeleteClass of 1999...Brigham Young University.
ReplyDeleteGOP activist ... Tea Party activist, as my hubby would say ... 5 cents one way, a nickel the other.
ReplyDeleteSo Gryphen, if it were our President photographed in the past with this piece of you know what, would Carney even be able to hold a serious press conference without this dominiating it from the press? If it were President Obama in the photo, and our country was being attacked today on our own soil by another country, would CNN, FOX, MSNBC cover the attack or would they lead with this story instead? I think we know the answer. But will we hear about Romney's association today ....? Probably not.
have patience.....this guy goes to court on Monday.
DeleteToday is a day to grieve the Aurora, CO. murders.
Mark Fiore - Mittlympics
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Hello, human diary. It is I again, Mitt Romney, your better.
ReplyDeleteI am tired of this. No matter how many times I praise their local foodstuffs or regale crowds with humorous anecdotes about the various times my family laid people off, this tax foolishness continues. I have already explained to these people that my taxes are of the legally correct height, and that the core reason for my campaign is to make them a different, lower height, and that it is none of their business what precisely either of those heights might be. This has always worked in the past, and I see no reason why it should not be working now.
I earnestly desire at this point nothing more than to purchase a new business just so I may have the momentary satisfaction of firing someone. None of these press units have been paying nearly enough respect to me, even after I pointed out that I could quite easily erase all of their hard drives. Even my own campaign surrogates cannot be fired, as we apparently do not technically pay them.
This campaign nonsense is a mess. I do not have believe I have had a single good day on the campaign trail since the Supreme Court decided that thing I did in Massachusetts that in hindsight was an abomination was not an abomination after all. Now that each day includes these new constant discussions regarding various idiot vice presidential candidates, I do not know how much more of this I can take.
An acquaintance at a fundraiser once muttered that it would be far less costly for we wealth units to simply purchase our own small nation and be done with it. I have seriously begun to consider it, but only if I could be assured that the others would in fact make me the president of that new country without undue irritation. There is no way I am going to subject myself to another damned primary.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/19/1111855/-The-Chronicles-of-Mitt-July-19-2012?detail=hide
That is a lovely, lovely thing.
DeleteDamn, some people can write!
Spread far and wide!
That's a winner! I could totally envision Rombotney having a "human" diary on which to vent.
DeleteGryph, that change by the Salt Lake Tribune speaks for itself. I would assume that the writers of the report found proof that this man's influence extended more broadly into the GOP as a whole rather than remaining within a certain fringe group.
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Did Somebody Leak Romney Tax Info?
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/19/1111807/-New-Obama-Ad-Romney-Hypocrisy
(VIDEO) Business Man In Romney’s Attack Ad Agrees 100% With Obama On Fox News
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My President Never Hid Behind His Wife
ReplyDeleteInstead of making a full-throated defense of his own stance, his response has been as follows:
(Crickets chirping)
Then he sends out his wife: Ann Romney.
Ann Romney has tried to provide cover for her husband with the following during an interview with Robin Roberts of "Good Morning, America":
“We’ve given all you people need to know and understand about our financial situation and how we live our life.”
Nice move, sending your wife out there to do what you should at least try to do yourself.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/20/1111951/-My-President-Never-Hid-Behind-His-Wife
"Independent" business man in Romney ad was visited by Romney and Huntsman during primaries
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"What's Mitt Romney hiding?" is the question on everyone's mind
ReplyDeleteThe question isn't if Romney is hiding something. He most certainly is: he's hiding his tax returns. He hasn't released a single year of full tax returns. The question of the hour relates to what is he hiding and why.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/20/1111984/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-What-s-Mitt-Romney-hiding-is-the-question-on-everyone-s-mind
You are so right Sarah, there should be consequences for bad behavior and whatnot.
ReplyDeleteSo past associations are fair game in order to properly vet a candidate and whatnot.
"Addressing the president's ties to his former pastor, Palin argued that the controversial figure should be fair game in the race for the White House. She explained, "I thought so in 2008, and that's why I went rogue, if you will and disagreed with some of John McCain's advisers when they said no a lot of these issues like past associations and Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers and those that helped shape Obama's world view needed to be off the table and not discussed."
The former Alaska governor added, "I disagreed then, I disagree now." She took issue with the notion of a "one-sided ceasefire call" and argued that some GOP operatives "have the fighting instinct of Mr. Snuffleupagus.""
Sarah Palin pals around with the likes of Joe Miller, Frank Bailey, Bob & Mark, Reverend Muthee, Chuck Kopp, Papa Pilgrim, Schaeffer Cox, Jeremy Morlock, Bill Allen. . .the list goes on and on, you nefarious twit.
On Lawrence O'Donnell last night he showed that the tax return Mitt released one of the important forms was missing. He is a liar again, again. How is this a religious person- not! He is the different one Awkward around pp;. out of place not natural. Who wants a person who would think so little of a persons religious right, as to baptize them into his religion after death. Not someone we want as president.
ReplyDeleteG- you might think about having a trigger warning for folks reading about rape. thanks.
ReplyDeleteIt appears that Romney also associates with Salvadoran Death Squads! Yikes.
ReplyDeleteMore info here,like how he threatened to use his connections to get a victims visa revoked.
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DFA members are walking into Mitt Romney's campaign headquarters in Boston right now. They're delivering over 224,000 petition signatures from DFA and MoveOn members from across the country calling on Romney to release his tax returns.
ReplyDeleteThe best part? We invited the press.
Romney's been getting hammered on this for weeks -- and his campaign is in complete meltdown over the issue. They've tried every trick in the book to change the subject and distract from Romney's tax returns.
We can't let them do that. We need to keep the pressure up. Mitt Romney is hiding something -- something so big so that he's willing to get beaten up by the press for weeks to keep it under cover.
Now, let's deliver the knockout punch. If we raise $50,000 this weekend, we'll have the resources we need to blast Romney on this issue for weeks to come -- on TV, on the radio, in Google ads, Facebook ads, everywhere.
This week has been devastating for Romney. More than half a dozen Republicans and right-wing media outlets came out against him -- demanding he release his tax returns and clarify exactly what he was doing with Bain Capital from 1999 - 2002.
Romney's tried everything to change the subject. He did a round-robin of cable channels to try -- but all he got was questions about Bain.
His campaign tried leaking names from his VP shortlist the press -- but the questions about Bain kept on coming.
Now he's trying to shrug the whole thing off. But don't let him fool you. This could be the defining issue of Romney's campaign and we can't stop hammering him on it until he tells us exactly what he's hiding.
https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/hiding?refcode=cmrt712n2
Mitt Romney Used Loopholes To Avoid Major Tax Hit
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When the governor of Michigan ran for the Republican nomination, in 1968, he tried to stand up against the more radical wing of his party. His defeat was swift, tragic, and, for his son, instructive.
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Mitt Romney Invested Millions in Firms That Pioneered High-Tech Outsourcing
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Romney Invested Millions in Firms That Pioneered High-Tech Outsourcing
ReplyDeleteEXCLUSIVE: A government document shows that at Bain he held a $54 million stake in companies that manufactured electronics in China and Mexico for US firms.
In March 1999, shortly after Romney left Bain to take over the troubled Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Brookside Capital Investors Inc., a Bain-related entity wholly owned by Romney, filed a report with the Securities and Exchange Commission that listed dozens of companies in which Brookside held a stake the previous quarter. The roster included investments in Singapore-based Flextronics International ($13 million) and Florida-headquartered Jabil Circuit Inc. ($41 million), two companies that were leaders in the fast-growing field of outsourcing electronics manufacturing and offshoring production to low-wage countries. Together, these two investments represented almost 10 percent of Brookside's $559 million portfolio.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/mitt-romney-bain-outsourcing-flextronics-jabil-circuit
Mitt Romney, Un-American
ReplyDeleteRepublicans have questioned the patriotism of Democrats for nearly a hundred years. But now, at long last, Barack Obama is turning the tables on the GOP.
John Sununu opened the “American” door the other day, and now the Romney campaign is barging through it, plotting attacks on Barack Obama’s “biography,” which will inevitably include veiled accusations about his alleged alien cast, his lack of American-ness. So now that it’s open, let’s stroll through it ourselves. What’s taking place in the room on the other side of that door? Republicans and conservatives are bouncing off the walls because they face a serious risk for the first time in a generation that their definitions of patriotism and Americanism are losing. And not just losing—losing to, of all people, Barack Hussein Obama!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/voxbox/michael-tomasky.html
Mitt’s Other Secret: Time to Disclose Romney’s Campaign Bundlers
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more interesting info! the FEDS are involved......
ReplyDelete"A jail log indicates U.S. marshals arrested Peterson in his home in Heber and booked him into the Salt Lake County jail."
He was arrested by the Feds because he took one of the victims across State lines, this changes the entire dynamic. This arrest has the potential to blow the lid off the corruption and crony capitalism of this State. This guy probably knows where a lot of bodies are buried and with the Feds being the ones to arrest him it changes the entire dynamic.
Come on Feds make this guy squeal like a pig in the hope of eventually getting out of jail. "
Yes Mr. RMoneybags, PAPERS, PLEASE!
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I love that this is on the front page of HuffPost Politics and it's the superpack that supports PBO.
Levi FB :
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OMG!
ReplyDeleteThat is about the filthiest language I have ever read!
And Bristol won't let Levi see his sonS!!!!!
I see the 7/12 date on the link, but this must be from an earlier time, right?
SONS....as in plural, more than one.
DeleteI caught that too.
Whoa, Mitt! Salt Lake Tribune did THIS story? After all you've done to create jobs in Salt Lake City, this is the thanks you get?
ReplyDeleteMan, I'd get busy if I were you, maybe write a letter to the Editor demanding they retract this, you're running for office, for gripes sake!
And isn't it wonderful that Ann, in her therapeutic vintage 1983 Fiorucci limited edition "Red Poppy" print wrap dress is standing behind Mitt and the rapist, dutifully waiting for Mitt to stand behind in case some reporter asks him to release his taxes.
Gee, I wonder how much the rapist paid to attend that fund raiser? Will Mitt return his donation?
"If you haven't any charity in your heart you have the worst kind of heart trouble" to cure it Help people, let's unite for one good cause, be a volunteer"save lives"!
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