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In reply to the discussion: How the Secret Service Said Goodbye to Mitt Romney [View all]Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)71. Just image IF Romney had won how much it would have cost to protect all 29 of them ...
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Romney has his family. When the race was close, agents would joke about the number of "j" words they'd need to come up with in order to give every one of his children, their wives, and all of their children code names. That's 29 people who would have received, if not protection, at least a protective survey and recommendations from the Service. Quietly, plans had already been put in place to assign protective details to all of them, just in case.
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http://www.gq.com/news-politics/blogs/death-race/2012/11/how-the-secret-service-said-goodbye-to-mitt-romney.html#ixzz2BhTdEGQj
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As a final insult to Rmoney - Secret Service should bill Rmoney for time rendered
Panasonic
Nov 2012
#6
Perhaps. just maybe...Willard felt like his campaign staff when they tried to pay for their cab
rustydog
Nov 2012
#10
You know what? McCain wasn't a douche during the campaign or during his concession
alcibiades_mystery
Nov 2012
#11
LOL, sounds like the Secret Service didn't stick around one nanosecond longer then required. n/t
gkhouston
Nov 2012
#42
I'd like to know how this is done. I could have a motorcade anytime I wanted to stop traffic. n/t
gkhouston
Nov 2012
#98
I had a single-car motorcade a couple hours ago, but no one would freaking stop for me!
Mnemosyne
Nov 2012
#107
Not enough indignity. EarlG is right, he should have been on the roof of aformentioned car. n/t
lumberjack_jeff
Nov 2012
#51
Ya know, I'm gonna burn in hell for this rec, and I shouldn't be this petty,
skydive forever
Nov 2012
#58
I wonder if he laid there thinking that perhaps his guards didn't vote for him...<G> n/t
jtuck004
Nov 2012
#59
At least the SS said goodbye - Romney's way of saying goodbye to his campaign staffers was to cut of
BlackM
Nov 2012
#61
Just image IF Romney had won how much it would have cost to protect all 29 of them ...
Tx4obama
Nov 2012
#71