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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOMG: Romney Staffers Made a $5,000 Wal-Mart Run to Stock Storm Relief Event in Ohio
The plan was for supporters to bring hurricane relief supplies to the event, and then deliver the bags of canned goods, packages of diapers, and cases of water bottles to the candidate, who would be perched behind a table along with a slew of volunteers and his Ohio right-hand man, Senator Rob Portman. To complete the project and photo-op, Romney would lead his crew in carrying the goods out of the gymnasium and into the Penske rental truck parked outside.
But the last-minute nature of the call for donations left some in the campaign concerned that they would end up with an empty truck. the night before the event, campaign aides went to a local Wal Mart and spent $5,000 on granola bars, canned food, and diapers to put on display while they waited for donations to come in, according to one staffer. (The campaign confirmed that it "did donate supplies to the relief effort," but would not specify how much it spent.)
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As supporters lined up to greet the candidate, a young volunteer in a Romney/Ryan t-shirt stood near the tables, his hands cupped around his mouth, shouting, "You need a donation to get in line!"
Empty-handed supporters pled for entrance, with one woman asking, "What if we dropped off our donations up front?"
The volunteer gestured toward a pile of groceries conveniently stacked near the candidate. "Just grab something," he said.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/the-making-of-romneys-storm-relief-event
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/31/1152984/-Romney-Staffers-Made-a-5-000-Wal-Mart-Run-to-Stock-Storm-Relief-Event-in-Ohio
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)Instead of relying on just photo-shopping, they relied on Wal-Mart shopping.
Botany
(70,219 posts)so some of the "relief supporters" did not even bring the goods?
get the red out
(13,456 posts)Impressive. That must have been educational for them.
liberal N proud
(60,289 posts)So sad.
FieryLocks
(110 posts)Right wingers are so fake. Fake Christians, fake concern, fake empathy...fake human beings.
Just give it up Mitt...everyone knows you don't give a rat's ass.
City of Mills
(2,880 posts)Once the photo-op was done.
DonRedwood
(4,359 posts)just like his business bankruptcies. Run up the tab, public pays it off.
klook
(12,131 posts)How much of the goods came from Chinese sweat shops, I wonder?
Having lived through Sandy (and made it out unharmed and with minimal damage, for which I'm eternally grateful) I hate everything I've read about what Romney has done in "storm support". Everything screams of fake and pandering. It obnoxious. I'd rather him keep quiet than pretend to care about us.