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kpete

(71,867 posts)
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 10:07 AM Oct 2012

OMG: 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.)

(...)

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
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OMG: Romney Staffers Made a $5,000 Wal-Mart Run to Stock Storm Relief Event in Ohio (Original Post) kpete Oct 2012 OP
That sounds about right Lifelong Protester Oct 2012 #1
once a phony always a phony Botany Oct 2012 #2
They knew how to find a Walmart? get the red out Oct 2012 #3
Purchased compassion liberal N proud Oct 2012 #4
Phonies FieryLocks Oct 2012 #5
Probably kept the receipt and returned the goods City of Mills Oct 2012 #6
no, silly, they kept them and wrote it off as a loss...that the tax payers will pick up DonRedwood Oct 2012 #9
LOL, free market relief from Mao-Mart klook Oct 2012 #7
UGH. walkforacure Oct 2012 #8

FieryLocks

(110 posts)
5. Phonies
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 10:17 AM
Oct 2012

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.

DonRedwood

(4,359 posts)
9. no, silly, they kept them and wrote it off as a loss...that the tax payers will pick up
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 10:47 AM
Oct 2012

just like his business bankruptcies. Run up the tab, public pays it off.

klook

(12,131 posts)
7. LOL, free market relief from Mao-Mart
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 10:21 AM
Oct 2012

How much of the goods came from Chinese sweat shops, I wonder?

walkforacure

(17 posts)
8. UGH.
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 10:26 AM
Oct 2012

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.

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