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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 06:38 PM

Massachusetts GOP Group pays homeless blacks to campaign for Republicans

Last 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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Reply Massachusetts GOP Group pays homeless blacks to campaign for Republicans (Original post)
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

1. Sick....

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Response to trailmonkee (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 06:46 PM

2. Get them to form a union and strike for $15 an hour.

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Response to trailmonkee (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 06:59 PM

3. Minimum Wage

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Response to trailmonkee (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 07:01 PM

4. sad

but they have to eat also. Desperation.

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Response to trailmonkee (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 07:02 PM

5. Just as bad as the bum fights for money videos.

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Response to trailmonkee (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 07:03 PM

6. They probably are not even registered

 

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Response to trailmonkee (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 07:18 PM

7. Oh, they'd make jobs a priority on day -1!! I get it now.

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Response to trailmonkee (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 07:18 PM

8. Just make sure they get paid..........

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

15. they probably get cash at end of day so they will come back the next day

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

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Response to trailmonkee (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 07:22 PM

9. GOP Stupidity v. American Stupidity

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?

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Response to chuckstevens (Reply #9)

Fri Oct 19, 2012, 08:56 AM

19. because our public education system SUCKS, and I know, I work in public schools

the stories I could tell

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Response to trailmonkee (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 07:42 PM

10. old tactic...

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...

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Response to trailmonkee (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 07:47 PM

11. No surprises that the GOP would resort to this

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

12. LOL

Real "Job Creators"!

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Response to trailmonkee (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 08:02 PM

13. ROFLMAO. This only works if no one knows.

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Response to McCamy Taylor (Reply #13)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 09:21 PM

16. works on low info or busy voters who can not keep track of it all

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Response to trailmonkee (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 09:10 PM

14. Preying on the poor in order to keep them poor

Perfect description of the GOP.

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Response to trailmonkee (Original post)

Thu Oct 18, 2012, 11:00 PM

17. Wow. That is so... Republican.

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

18. Is this their jobs program? nt

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Response to bemildred (Reply #18)

Fri Oct 19, 2012, 09:38 AM

20. yes but don't think these same people will VOTE for Mittles

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Response to wordpix (Reply #20)

Fri Oct 19, 2012, 09:56 AM

21. I'd take their money and walk for Obama.

Rules are for the little people.

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