Posted on 07/16/2007 10:50:48 PM PDT by gpapa
What kinds of things do you think of when you hear "communications consulting"?
Speechwriting? Message strategy?
Well, "communications consulting" is how presidential candidate Mitt Romney recorded $300 in payments to a California company that describes itself as "a mobile beauty team for hair, makeup and men's grooming and spa services."
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
No barber shops for 45 years, I wonder how much I’ve saved.
Romney-Edwards 2008
The Hair Team
“...What kinds of things do you think of when you hear “communications consulting”?...”
Applying lipstick to a pig?
They never mentioned Kerry’s botox.
Nor the silky pony’s - or the fact that silky pony pays over $400.00 for a haircut.
And Kerry's Botox... and Uncle Albert's orange rouge....
$150 x 2 = $300. Reasonable price for a service that makes housecalls.
You get what you pay for. Let’s face it, the dude has great hair!
Whoa! Someone call the homosexual-police! I think we have a wolf in sheep’s clothing!
If you consider the amount of money that public figures need to spend on speech coaches, demographic research, tailoring, etc., $300 sounds like a pretty shrewd investment if you ask me.
I’m guessing that you have never had to appear on camera.
Does anyone know where we can find a working press? Ours is broken.
At least Romney is straight, whereas the Breck girl is of indeterminate gender, lol.
When a consultant makes a call they charge a minimum — usually 4 hours. That makes it $75.00 per hour — cheap!
restornu, the point is that Mitt paid for a haircut and makeup job and called it “communications consulting” rather than a haircut and makeup job, perhaps to dodge Edwards-like criticism.
Not as bad as taking money from the American Museum Council but even if the bowl aint as big the flavor is the same.
Not as bad as taking money from the American Museum Council but even if the bowl aint as big the flavor is the same.
So he hired experts to advice him what's with you people
You are showing your ignorance this is what they call it in the field of Presentation "Communications Consulting" those who appear on TV and give speeches it is all part of the package.
Has he been unaware of the drubbing that Edwards takes for his own beauty expenses? I would think that the "I Feel Pretty" YouTube video of Edwards primping would be used at least once a week by all Republican candidates' staffs as a tension reliever!
Just because we don’t travel in those area of communication does not mean how he categorized it is correct when it is a part of the package.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1867065/posts?page=37#37
People in the public eye frequently spend big bucks on appearance- even Edwards does not deserve to be criticized (Clinton was too). I agree with you on that, anybody whose job it is to be in public does (or should do, Dennis Kucinich!) the same thing. I bet Jay Leno spends more than $300 per week on hair and makeup. When I give a talk at a university or present a paper at a conference I at least get a trim (if Kerry was going to be in the audience I’d get a manicure too).
Since it is so common, though, there is no reason to attempt to obfuscate the issues.
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