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On the day of the President’s acceptance speech at his party convention. And his “embarrassing” cancellation of a stadium rally in favor of an indoor speech? It’s pouring buckets of rain right now in Charlotte.

In the story from the Tennessean linked below, we hear this:

Jean Barwick, executive director of the Williamson County Republican Party, held up a small manila envelope in her office that she said contained the drive and the letter. Scrawled in green lettering across one side are the words “For Rep Learders” (sic).

Barwick said she found the package Friday and called the state GOP office to see if they’d received a similar envelope. Barwick did not call the police until Wednesday, she said, because she didn’t think the extortion attempt seemed credible.

“A million dollars seemed kind of low,” Barwick said. “If you’re going to go for a million, why not go for $100 million.”

The GOP executive director thinks that Romney’s tax returns are so bad that he’d pay up to $100 million to keep them from being released?

Things might get a lot more interesting here. This was just anonymously posted on Pastebin, a site used by would-be anonymous leakers:

PWC Office @ 830 Crescent Centre Drive, Suite 260, Franklin, TN 37067
Telephone: [1] (615) 503-2860

Romney’s 1040 tax returns were taken from the PWC office 8/25/2012 by gaining access to the third floor via a gentleman working on the 3rd floor of the building. Once on the 3rd floor, the team moved down the stairs to the 2nd floor and setup shop in an empty office room. During the night, suite 260 was entered, and all available 1040 tax forms for Romney were copied. A package was sent to the PWC on suite 260 with a flash drive containing a copy of the 1040 files, plus copies were sent to the Democratic office in the county and copies were sent to the GOP office in the county at the beginning of the week also containing flash drives with copies of Romney’s tax returns before 2010. A scanned signature image for Mitt Romney from the 1040 forms were scanned and included with the packages, taken from earlier 1040 tax forms gathered and stored on the flash drives.

The group will release all available files to the public on the 28 of September, 2012

This line is on all the package letters for authenticity of the email being sent.

all these considerations did not deter me from the path of duty

UPDATE: Confirmation that packages of some kind were sent, and very sketchy claims that the “Secret Service” picked up the material.

This mainstream news report confirms packages were received, but says nothing about involvement by the Secret Service. In my opinion, someone is trying to create the impression that the President’s Secret Service has obtained Mitt Romney’s tax returns.

I suspect a GOP dirty tricks operation.

The bar for the rest of the convention speakers has been set very high here.

Apparently the Secretary of State of Ohio doesn’t understand what a court order is.