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Cranbrook School, Bloomfield Hills, Mich. An incident no one will forget.
A former student who witnessed the incident asked not to be identified.
Sometime in the mid-1990s, David Seed noticed a familiar face at the end of a bar at Chicago O’Hare International Airport.
“Hey, you’re John Lauber,” Seed recalled saying at the start of a brief conversation. Seed, also among those who witnessed the
Romney-led incident, had gone on to a career as a teacher and principal. Now he had something to get off his chest.
“I’m sorry that I didn’t do more to help in the situation,” he said.
Lauber paused, then responded, “It was horrible.” He went on to explain how frightened he was during the incident,
and acknowledged to David Seed, “It’s something I have thought about a lot since then.”
(David Seed, a retired principal, a registered independent, has served as a Republican county chairman in Michigan.)
“It happened very quickly, and to this day it troubles me,” said Buford, the school’s wrestling champion, who said he joined Romney
in restraining Lauber. Buford subsequently apologized to Lauber, who was “terrified,” he said. “What a senseless, stupid, idiotic thing to do.”
(Thomas Buford, now a retired prosecutor. Buford volunteered for Barack Obama’s campaign in 2008.)
Mitt Romney, 18 year old high school senior, hacks hair off of a student's head with scissors.
“It was a hack job,” recalled Maxwell, a childhood friend of Romney who was in the dorm room when the incident occurred. “It was vicious.”
(Phillip Maxwell, now a lawyer.)
Mitt Romney copied his dad- A campaign against another student. He complained to his friends, and got them all fired up.
Fired up enough to help hold John Laubner down, after Mitt Romney tackled him. John was screaming for help on the schools quad.
Where were the adults? Where were the teachers? It was an expensive private school. Where was the staff?
John Lauber, described as "a soft-spoken new student … walking around the all-boys school with bleached-blond hair that draped over one eye."
Who saw John Laubner smoking a cigarette, alone, on the Cranbrook campus grounds, and got him kicked out of school before graduation?
John Lauber died, of cancer, in 2004, after a life that sounds peripatetic and, in some ways, unsettled. The Washington Post spoke
to his surviving sisters: “He kept his hair blond until he died, said his sister Chris. ‘He never stopped bleaching it.’
Mitt Romney,son of then-Michigan Gov. George Romney, said, "Atta girl," in class to a closeted gay student,
and deliberately held a door closed while a sight-impaired teacher walked into it.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-romney-apology-20120511,0,2738869.story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...ents/2012/05/10/gIQA3WOKFU_story.html?hpid=z5
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2012/05/mitt-romney-bully.html
Friday, May 4, 2007
When the ex-Mass. gov. told Fox News, on Monday, that one of his favorite novels is the 1982 sci-fi epic "Battlefield Earth,"
by L. Ron Hubbard, the media went berserk.
May 13, 2007
When asked recently by a Fox News interviewer to name his favorite novel, Mitt Romney's answer, the 1982 science-fiction epic "Battlefield Earth," raised eyebrows across the political spectrum. As if reassuring the general public about his Mormonism wasn't enough of a hurdle for the GOP presidential hopeful, now Romney was praising a book by...
L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology?
A former student who witnessed the incident asked not to be identified.
Sometime in the mid-1990s, David Seed noticed a familiar face at the end of a bar at Chicago O’Hare International Airport.
“Hey, you’re John Lauber,” Seed recalled saying at the start of a brief conversation. Seed, also among those who witnessed the
Romney-led incident, had gone on to a career as a teacher and principal. Now he had something to get off his chest.
“I’m sorry that I didn’t do more to help in the situation,” he said.
Lauber paused, then responded, “It was horrible.” He went on to explain how frightened he was during the incident,
and acknowledged to David Seed, “It’s something I have thought about a lot since then.”
(David Seed, a retired principal, a registered independent, has served as a Republican county chairman in Michigan.)
“It happened very quickly, and to this day it troubles me,” said Buford, the school’s wrestling champion, who said he joined Romney
in restraining Lauber. Buford subsequently apologized to Lauber, who was “terrified,” he said. “What a senseless, stupid, idiotic thing to do.”
(Thomas Buford, now a retired prosecutor. Buford volunteered for Barack Obama’s campaign in 2008.)
Mitt Romney, 18 year old high school senior, hacks hair off of a student's head with scissors.
“It was a hack job,” recalled Maxwell, a childhood friend of Romney who was in the dorm room when the incident occurred. “It was vicious.”
(Phillip Maxwell, now a lawyer.)
Mitt Romney copied his dad- A campaign against another student. He complained to his friends, and got them all fired up.
Fired up enough to help hold John Laubner down, after Mitt Romney tackled him. John was screaming for help on the schools quad.
Where were the adults? Where were the teachers? It was an expensive private school. Where was the staff?
John Lauber, described as "a soft-spoken new student … walking around the all-boys school with bleached-blond hair that draped over one eye."
Who saw John Laubner smoking a cigarette, alone, on the Cranbrook campus grounds, and got him kicked out of school before graduation?
John Lauber died, of cancer, in 2004, after a life that sounds peripatetic and, in some ways, unsettled. The Washington Post spoke
to his surviving sisters: “He kept his hair blond until he died, said his sister Chris. ‘He never stopped bleaching it.’
Mitt Romney,son of then-Michigan Gov. George Romney, said, "Atta girl," in class to a closeted gay student,
and deliberately held a door closed while a sight-impaired teacher walked into it.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-romney-apology-20120511,0,2738869.story
http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...ents/2012/05/10/gIQA3WOKFU_story.html?hpid=z5
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2012/05/mitt-romney-bully.html
Friday, May 4, 2007
When the ex-Mass. gov. told Fox News, on Monday, that one of his favorite novels is the 1982 sci-fi epic "Battlefield Earth,"
by L. Ron Hubbard, the media went berserk.
May 13, 2007
When asked recently by a Fox News interviewer to name his favorite novel, Mitt Romney's answer, the 1982 science-fiction epic "Battlefield Earth," raised eyebrows across the political spectrum. As if reassuring the general public about his Mormonism wasn't enough of a hurdle for the GOP presidential hopeful, now Romney was praising a book by...
L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology?
