Thu Oct 18, 2012, 06:38 PM
trailmonkee (2,605 posts)
Massachusetts GOP Group pays homeless blacks to campaign for RepublicansLast edited Thu Oct 18, 2012, 06:39 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)
Source: Atlanta daily world
A group of Black supporters under the moniker ”Obama Supporters For Brown” are campaigning in Boston for U.S. Senator Scott Brown, a White Republican candidate who is in a tight Senate race in Massachusetts against his Democratic challenger, Elizabeth Warren. However, this band of Black folks are working for a small fee, the Boston Herald reports. Homeless people and others are being paid a “per diem” of $8 per hour to wear T-shirts in areas that are considered Warren strongholds. Benjamin Thompson, a former Boston city employee, is running Obama Supporters For Brown out of a storefront in the city. The state’s GOP MassVictory program is paying for the effort. The per diem is suppose to pay for child care and other costs, “works out to” roughly $8 an hour, the Globe quotes Thompson as saying. Read more: http://www.atlantadailyworld.com/index.php/features/604-mass-gop-pays-black-folks-to-campaign-for-white-candidate
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| trailmonkee | Oct 2012 | OP | |
| MountainMazza | Oct 2012 | #1 | |
| bloomington-lib | Oct 2012 | #2 | |
| KamaAina | Oct 2012 | #3 | |
| heaven05 | Oct 2012 | #4 | |
| L0oniX | Oct 2012 | #5 | |
| julian09 | Oct 2012 | #6 | |
| SaveAmerica | Oct 2012 | #7 | |
| thelordofhell | Oct 2012 | #8 | |
| lunasun | Oct 2012 | #15 | |
| chuckstevens | Oct 2012 | #9 | |
| wordpix | Oct 2012 | #19 | |
| Blue_Tires | Oct 2012 | #10 | |
| Zambero | Oct 2012 | #11 | |
| BobbyBoring | Oct 2012 | #12 | |
| McCamy Taylor | Oct 2012 | #13 | |
| lunasun | Oct 2012 | #16 | |
| Canuckistanian | Oct 2012 | #14 | |
| drm604 | Oct 2012 | #17 | |
| bemildred | Oct 2012 | #18 | |
| wordpix | Oct 2012 | #20 | |
| bemildred | Oct 2012 | #21 |
Response to trailmonkee (Original post)
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 06:40 PM
MountainMazza (194 posts)
1. Sick....
Response to trailmonkee (Original post)
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 06:46 PM
bloomington-lib (806 posts)
2. Get them to form a union and strike for $15 an hour.
Response to trailmonkee (Original post)
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 06:59 PM
KamaAina (45,658 posts)
3. Minimum Wage
Response to trailmonkee (Original post)
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 07:01 PM
heaven05 (2,483 posts)
4. sad
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but they have to eat also. Desperation.
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Response to trailmonkee (Original post)
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 07:02 PM
L0oniX (18,013 posts)
5. Just as bad as the bum fights for money videos.
Response to trailmonkee (Original post)
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 07:03 PM
julian09 (1,435 posts)
6. They probably are not even registered
Response to trailmonkee (Original post)
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 07:18 PM
SaveAmerica (4,983 posts)
7. Oh, they'd make jobs a priority on day -1!! I get it now.
Response to trailmonkee (Original post)
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 07:18 PM
thelordofhell (3,849 posts)
8. Just make sure they get paid..........
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I don't trust the GOP to give money to the homeless for any reasons.........make sure there is a paper trail.
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Response to thelordofhell (Reply #8)
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 09:18 PM
lunasun (3,719 posts)
15. they probably get cash at end of day so they will come back the next day
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and I hope they get the shirt in the A.M. go sleep somewhere and get back up around 4pm and turn in for cash at 5pm so no one sees it.......Obama for brown ....what crap next
although I do not blame the poor folks who take it, just Brown and friends |
Response to trailmonkee (Original post)
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 07:22 PM
chuckstevens (355 posts)
9. GOP Stupidity v. American Stupidity
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Missouri - Todd Akin:"Women can shut down pregnancy during rape."
Wisconsin - Tommy Thompson's son "Send Obama back to Kenya." Massachusetts - Brown and the GOP - Paying homeless blacks to work for the GOP Indiana - Murdock - "Bi-partisanship is when Democrats do everything we want." PA and North Dakota Senate candidate's = No abortions under ANY circumstances I could go on and on. It is amazing to me that these Republicans politicians can say and do such stupid things, yet still be running competitive races. Who is more stupid: the Republican politicians or Americans who still will back them? |
Response to chuckstevens (Reply #9)
Fri Oct 19, 2012, 08:56 AM
wordpix (12,502 posts)
19. because our public education system SUCKS, and I know, I work in public schools
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the stories I could tell
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Response to trailmonkee (Original post)
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 07:42 PM
Blue_Tires (31,870 posts)
10. old tactic...
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Bob Ehrlich's people did this in Maryland in '02; promising $$$ per page of either voter regs or petition signatures (which was of course illegal) and true to GOP fashion, they reneged on their promise to pay up (or even to give the homeless FOOD) when their work was finished...
Of course by the time it came to trial Ehrlich was already in office for a year, and the dirty trickster couldn't be linked to the campaign since he was an "non-official, outside consultant/volunteer" (wink-wink...Funny how often that is the case), and since it was his word against a few homeless, he got off the hook... |
Response to trailmonkee (Original post)
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 07:47 PM
Zambero (2,409 posts)
11. No surprises that the GOP would resort to this
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And no results for their "efforts". Warren will win this one handily.
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Response to trailmonkee (Original post)
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 07:52 PM
BobbyBoring (1,491 posts)
12. LOL
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Real "Job Creators"!
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Response to trailmonkee (Original post)
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 08:02 PM
McCamy Taylor (13,717 posts)
13. ROFLMAO. This only works if no one knows.
Response to McCamy Taylor (Reply #13)
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 09:21 PM
lunasun (3,719 posts)
16. works on low info or busy voters who can not keep track of it all
Response to trailmonkee (Original post)
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 09:10 PM
Canuckistanian (42,279 posts)
14. Preying on the poor in order to keep them poor
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Perfect description of the GOP.
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Response to trailmonkee (Original post)
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 11:00 PM
drm604 (13,977 posts)
17. Wow. That is so... Republican.
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I guess they do know how to create jobs!
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Response to trailmonkee (Original post)
Fri Oct 19, 2012, 07:53 AM
bemildred (67,751 posts)
18. Is this their jobs program? nt
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Response to bemildred (Reply #18)
Fri Oct 19, 2012, 09:38 AM
wordpix (12,502 posts)
20. yes but don't think these same people will VOTE for Mittles
Response to wordpix (Reply #20)
Fri Oct 19, 2012, 09:56 AM
bemildred (67,751 posts)
21. I'd take their money and walk for Obama.
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Rules are for the little people.
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