Top Romney Donors Gather For Exclusive NYC Retreat - MSNBC

[WillyT]

Top Romney donors gather for exclusive NYC retreat
By NBC's Garrett Haake - MSNBC
10/15/12

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BOSTON -- Top contributors and advisers to Mitt Romney's campaign huddled Monday for their second major retreat since Romney secured the GOP nomination, a gathering intended to energize and engage donors and spur donations in the campaign's final stretch.

Some of the Romney campaign's biggest benefactors from across the country will meet at New York's Waldorf-Astoria hotel for the two-day confab, the highlight of which is a gala reception and dinner with vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan aboard the USS Intrepid on the Hudson River this evening. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus and reality TV star/real estate mogul Donald Trump are also special guests.

The Romney campaign hopes this retreat will replicate the success of a larger one it organized in June, when hundreds of donors who had given at least $50,000 were invited to attend a set of briefings with the GOP high command in Utah.

To attend this week's affair, according to one top donor who plans to attend, invitees had to raise $250,000 -- a higher, and thus, more exclusive threshold.

A copy of the event's schedule, posted on the website of the Sunlight Foundation, a non-partisan group which advocates for greater government transparency, shows Tuesday's calendar is filled with meetings with campaign strategists and business leaders: http://politicalpartytime.org/party/33750/

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[onehandle]

1. Sounds like a good opportunity for a nice big loud protest.

These fatcats need to fear their own shadow.

[Skidmore]

2. Isn't the USS Intrepid government property?

Isn't it against campaign laws to campaign on government property?

[FSogol]

5. The USS Intrepid is a decommissioned aircraft carrier converted to a museum.

I recommend visiting it whenever it is free of Romney and his ilk.

[uberblonde]

3. Dennis Miller?

Oh, now I'm jealous!

[LTR]

4. Top contributors and advisors

Isn't that the same thing?

[BumRushDaShow]

6. Isn't this where the Space Shuttle Enterprise is sitting now?

http://www.intrepidmuseum.org/Host-an-Event.aspx

I noticed that the website talks about how you can "host an event"..

How dare they sully the reputation of that prototype shuttle, let alone the ship itself!

[warrior1]

7. I hope there will be recording devices.

[madmom]

8. " greater government transparency" should start with willard's tax returns!

[bongbong]

9. Irony, as always, from repigs

Quiz for repigs: The Intrepid was built with

a) socialism
b) free enterprise