Posted on 11/10/2012 12:55:13 PM PST by matt04
When Mitt Romney’s staffers tried to take cabs home after the Republican presidential nominee’s election night concession speech, they discovered a problem. According to NBC, the Romney campaign cancelled staffers’ campaign credit cards in the middle of the night.
NBC went on to report about the disassembling of the Romney campaign – but the anecdote about the credit cards has gone viral, getting picked up by the likes of Esquire and Forbes.
It’s not the only bit of quirky trivia reported on in the post-election coffee buzz. The Boston Globe discovered that Romney planned an eight-minute fireworks display over the Boston Harbor as part of his victory celebration. The Globe’s Glen Johnson reported, “The Romney show had a patriotic theme, heavy on red, white, and blue colors, and featured crowd-pleasing large chrysanthemum bursts.” After Romney’s concession, the show that never happened got dismantled and returned to the fireworks company.
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Not personal, just business. Hope all his loyal staffers got home ok.
I'm hoping Election Night 2012 was the last time I'll see Karl Rove's face ... anywhere other than on the side of a milk carton.
So my campaign donations were going for cab fare?
As of the second Mitt conceded, they would have had to shut the campaign down.
I am sure that any valid expense reports will be honored.
Did you think the MSM would NOT offer up the propoganda which conservatives seem to love to gobble up?
Look, for example, for legions of upcoming stories about Boehner which take every single soundbyte he ever uttered out of context. This of course will be used to sabotage House negotions because, of course, the dippy conservatives among us will believe every word.
Well you have to get people to where they are going. Perhaps they should walk or take high speed rail?
The joke is on the WHOLE country you and I included.
***After Romney’s concession, the show that never happened got dismantled and returned to the fireworks company.***
Which means, the Obama win lost an American fireworks company big bucks!
If true, it is unconscionable. Mitt has enough money and it is at least customary to wait until the next day before cancelling cards so people can get home and check out of their hotels.
However, I suspect that it wasn’t Mitt but some junior staffer to did this without approval and without thinking.
Does this matter at all?
...or, how about pay their own way like all the volunteers do.
It is like firing all of the soldiers immediately after WWII and letting them find their own way home by themselves.
“So my campaign donations were going for cab fare?”
Transportation - it’s a valid business expense - and like good stewards when the task was done the money gets cut off.
That’s a good business model. And I’m sure they had ten bucks in thier pockets for cab fare for cryin’ out loud.
Don’t believe a word of this drival. Libs just trying to make Romney look bad even to his campaign office. Wonder how much STIMULOUS money the liberal news received for positive reporting of Obama.
Don’t believe a word of this drival. Libs just trying to make Romney look bad even to his campaign office. Wonder how much STIMULOUS money the liberal news received for positive reporting of Obama.
Good for him. No sense paying the people who betrayed him any longer than he had to. Their faulty advice cost him the race. I hope they enjoyed their walks.
I can’t decide if this was prudent or if they should have waited until the end of the next day.
It certainly is the opposite of slathering your supporters with billions of dollars the way you know who does.
If you hire someone then you should pay them. If you ask them to volunteer then its negotiable.
I will say, I was getting many emails per day from the Romney campaign, right up until the polls closed. Then, they didn’t even send out a “thank you for your efforts on our behalf” email. I thought that was rather tacky.
Wow.........must be a slow news day.........
BTTT!
If the Romney campaign hadn't canceled those credit cards, they'd be reporting on Romney spending campaign money after the election was over and how questionable that spending was. There would be many hints as to its probable illegality.
There are strict rules which cover the use of campaign funds. The honest candidates I know follow them to the letter of the law. Had he not shut the campaign and everything associated with it, the media would also have had a heyday with it. No way for honest people to win.
Unlike the Obutthead campaign which kept its credit cards open for the trips to every Chitown bar they could go to...whoopee.
In this afternoon's email inbox:
[xxx],
Ann and I cannot thank you enough for supporting and believing in our cause.
This was more than just a campaign -- this was a national movement.
Thank you for the work that you did -- going across neighborhoods to knock on doors and put up yard signs. Thanks for making phone calls, coming to rallies, donating funds, and convincing friends and family to join our team.
What's really inspiring is that you came together because you care about America.
We still believe that better days are ahead. It's up to us to rally together to renew America's promise and restore American greatness.
From the bottom of our hearts, Ann and I thank you for your support, prayers, efforts, and vote. We are forever grateful to each and every one of you.
Today's a new day. Keep believing in America.
Thank you and God bless America,
Mitt and Ann Romney
I seriously doubt this story is true. I had a family member that was well connected to the inside circle of the Romney campaign.
He states that this story is false. Romney is a very generous person.
It’s Time to Dismantle Air Romney
By Nick Summers
November 06, 2012 5:40 PM EST
After Election Day, the work of tearing down a presidential campaign begins. Field offices are dismantled. Bunting and balloons are junked. And a small company in Michigan gets back its airplane. After the Republican National Convention, Mitt Romney toured the country in a personalized McDonnell Douglas MD-83. The tail fin sported his logo and the headrest on his seat was embroidered with “The Gov.” The plane is operated by USA Jet Airlines, a subsidiary of privately held Active Aero Group, with headquarters in Belleville, Mich. Before another client can fly tail number N949NS, it must first be de-Romneyized....
http://mobile.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-06/how-to-de-romneyize-an-airplane
Wouldn’t surprise me. Despite the loss, the MSM/Dems will continue to go after Romney because they see him as a threat.
Well, America fired Romney’s staff.
The campaign was over.
They shouldn’t criticize Romney.
Because of you I checked my email.
I have received a thank you email also!!!!
How sweet :)
(I’m tearing up again....)
I read that as "I'm tearing [it] up again...", as in rip-rip, but them I'm taking the results hard. I'm bitter. And Fearful...
Remember the 10 felonies rule.
You create so many rules and laws that everyone commits 10 felonies per day....If they want you in jail, they easily have the grounds to arrest you.
Thank you, that’s great to see. God Bless them. I came to see that they are good, decent people who love America. I already knew that about Ryan. What a tragedy that an electorate so misled and shallow could not see what this country needed.
I know what you mean.
I’m praying for a miracle. It’s about the only positive thing I can think of right now.
Maybe the staffers were not so loyal if they are going to the commie press with this story in an effort to smear Romney. As usual.
Jim wrote: Not personal, just business. Hope all his loyal staffers got home ok.
Which side of your post is the joke, or are neither/both?
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