Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney sends leftover pizza to Obama's hometown headquarters

The New York Daily News ^ | May 27, 2011 | Christine Roberts

[2ndDivisionVet]

Special delivery for President Obama: From Romney, with love?

The former Massachusetts governor and all-but-declared presidential candidate sent his leftover pizza to President Barack Obama?a>??s election headquarters after a fundraising event in Chicago on Thursday.

"Great deep dish at @ginoseast. Sending the extra slices to @barackobama and his Chicago HQ team," he tweeted, adding a photo of the deliveryman.

Jeff Himmel, president of Bravo Restaurants, Inc., which owns Gino’s East, wouldn't take sides, adding Obama is no stranger to his home-town restaurant's famed pies.

"I’m quite certain that the President has visited our institution on several occasions and is familiar with our pizza – being that he’s a hometown boy," he told the Daily News.

"It was nice of Mr. Romney," he said, slightly sarcastically.

Romney's snarky stunt provoked a firestorm on Twitter.

Gerald Nelson commented mockingly: "After spending $100M on last campaign All Mitt can afford is Pizza" while Rumana Siddiky expressed surprise, "Ballsy. Who knew?"

Romney’s Republican competition, Tim Pawlenty, decided that the pizza dig wasn’t enough and criticized his recent Guinness-drinking photo-op in Ireland.

"@barackobama sorry to interrupt the European pub crawl, but what was your Medicare plan?" Pawlenty tweeted. Romney’s communications director, Gail Gitcho, insisted that the delivery was not a prank.

"No prank - just a nice gesture since we were just a few blocks away from their HQ yesterday and had extra pizza," she told Talking Points Memo.

After all that effort, though, Romney got the order wrong. Obama and his wife, Michelle, prefer thin crust --preferably from Italian Fiesta in Hyde Park.

[2ndDivisionVet]

From one liberal Democrat to another.

[cripplecreek]

Seems like kind of a childish thing to do.

[Grizzled Bear]

Seems like kind of a childish thing to do.

I would have called several different pizza places from a pay phone and order a ton of pizza to be delivered to the Democratic Headquarters. Then, later, I would ring their doorbell and run away.

[trisham]

LOLOLOLOL! You’re funny! :)

[ABQHispConservative]

Which means he’ll probably go easier on 0 than McCain could ever had dreamed of. Typical establishment rino!

[redhead]

You just stay classy, Willard...

[Diogenesis]

“Why on Earth is Romney using his donors’ money
to feed ObamaBOTs working against the GOP?”

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Mitt Romney Sends Leftover Pizza to Obama Chicago HQ
After spending the day in Chicago fundraising, Mitt Romney
sat down with small business owners at Gino's East,
a pizza joint famous for their deep-dish pizza.
In fact, Romney himself tweeted a photo of a
delivery boy heading out with the loot, writing,
"Great deep dish at @ginoseast.
Sending the extra slices to @barackobama and his Chicago HQ team."

[Brandonmark]

[Track9]

cheeky.. no substance. But it’ll get those who think like this going.

[ComputerGuy]

Food that someone else paid for? Sounds like a democrat’s dream to me.

[gov_bean_ counter]

cheeky.. no substance. But it’ll get those who think like this going

That's the kind of thing Jethro Bodine would have thought funny...

[Persevero]

I think that’s a little weird.

Donate it to a homeless shelter or something.

[mrsixpack36]

If this clown is the nominee, the GOP is doomed. I actually hope fruity rooty enters the race to split the left wing of the GOP. A real conservative can win!

[Rome2000]

So the pizza shop owner calls Barry Hussein "boy", and Flip Slick Willard Rino Romney apparently thinks sending left over pizza to the oppositions campaign headquarters is something to "tweet" about.

Good Lord.

[Allegra]

The former Massachusetts governor and all-but-declared presidential candidate....

The media's wishful thinking is showing again.

[Brilliant]

Guess he’s aiming to replace Biden on the Dem ticket.

[Allegra]

I would have called several different pizza places from a pay phone and order a ton of pizza to be delivered to the Democratic Headquarters.

With anchovies on all of 'em.

[EGPWS]

The former Massachusetts governor and all-but-declared presidential candidate sent his leftover pizza to President Barack Obama?a>??s election headquarters after a fundraising event in Chicago on Thursday.

What a stupid thing to do, IMO.

Or is it a therapeutic thing?

[2ndDivisionVet]

It’s Mr. Soros’ money, any way you slice it.