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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(118,160 posts)
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 01:19 PM Apr 2024

RFK Jr. New York campaign staff member Rita Palma has been fired

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign manager said on Wednesday that New York campaign staff member Rita Palma was fired after she told GOP voters in a meeting last week that preventing President Joe Biden’s victory was her “number one priority” and encouraged them to volunteer for former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania.

“We terminated her contract for misrepresentation immediately upon seeing the longer video in which she gave an inaccurate job title and described a conversation that did not happen,” Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, Kennedy’s campaign manager and daughter-in-law, said in a post on X Wednesday evening.

Palma confirmed to CNN on Wednesday she is no longer employed by the campaign. She told CNN she believes Kennedy is “still by far the best candidate” and called the focus on her comments a “distraction.”

“I dealt with the campaign honestly,” Palma said. “I have nothing to defend. Truth defends itself.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rfk-jr-york-campaign-staff-042112592.html

Blabbermouth.

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RFK Jr. New York campaign staff member Rita Palma has been fired (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2024 OP
Sacked for telling the truth, I think. Ocelot II Apr 2024 #1
I don't think so Jose Garcia Apr 2024 #10
Who is surprised by this? LetMyPeopleVote Apr 2024 #2
So who here REALLY believes she went "off reservation" and this is not representative of RFK JR strategy? hlthe2b Apr 2024 #3
She might not be up front in the campaign but she'll be behind the scenes Deuxcents Apr 2024 #4
What's that old saying? Think. Again. Apr 2024 #5
It's still on tape her saying that and we sure make sure it's in a ad against Bobby kimbutgar Apr 2024 #6
Running for TSF Traurigkeit Apr 2024 #9
This is the kook/clown they fired wolfie001 Apr 2024 #7
So is Bob quitting himself for the same (unspoken) dereliction? UTUSN Apr 2024 #8
Palma got Fired for saying the quiet Cha Apr 2024 #11
Dip shit. I bet whoever who hired her is in trouble. marble falls Apr 2024 #12

Jose Garcia

(3,037 posts)
10. I don't think so
Fri Apr 12, 2024, 11:46 AM
Apr 2024

He is taking stances on issues that will take votes from Trump rather than Biden.

hlthe2b

(107,612 posts)
3. So who here REALLY believes she went "off reservation" and this is not representative of RFK JR strategy?
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 01:25 PM
Apr 2024

Maybe not word-for-word and every tactic, but I tend to believe she was not representing her solely personal attitudes. Her sin was that she was recorded and thus "caught."

kimbutgar

(23,996 posts)
6. It's still on tape her saying that and we sure make sure it's in a ad against Bobby
Thu Apr 11, 2024, 02:41 PM
Apr 2024

Who is he really running for?

wolfie001

(4,002 posts)
7. This is the kook/clown they fired
Fri Apr 12, 2024, 10:48 AM
Apr 2024

From www.westsidespirit.com: This vaccination gap divides into those who are against all vaccines, and others who are only against the COVID vaccine. Rita Palma, 58, belongs to the former category. From Blue Point, Long Island, Palma is an officer in the New York chapter of the Children’s Health Defense, a nonprofit that OPPOSES ALL VACCINES FOR CHILDREN (boldface mine).

“I choose to do other things that maintain a healthy body, I see no reason to invite anything else into it,” says Palma, adding that keeping COVID at bay with a healthy diet, good sleep and exercise aligns with her religious, philosophical and medical convictions. “You don’t have to lean on a vaccine to call yourself healthy.” Palma cites a religious belief held by some that injecting medication corrupts the holy nature of the mind, body and spirit, and is a betrayal of faith in God’s powers.
Palma counters with two points she staunchly holds onto: she believes that the vaccine “has been associated with harm and death,” and therefore is just as dangerous as COVID, and “the mRNA vaccine changes your DNA.”

Fits the RFK Jr profile to a T.



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