SC: Romney Gives Unemployed Woman Cash on Ropeline [WHAT?]

abc News ^ | January 14, 2012 | Emily Friedman

[upchuck]

Amid shaking hands and signing campaign posters, Mitt Romney did something he has never done before on the ropeline: He took out his wallet and handed a wad of cash to a woman waiting to shake his hand.

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According to Williams, she followed the campaign bus to the Columbia airport on Wednesday, the same day Romney was arriving from New Hampshire. When Romney wasn’t on the bus, aides told her to go to the rally scheduled in Columbia later that day. When she showed up, Romney found her to say hello and pulled over South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to say “hello” too.

“He was kind to me and he made Gov. Haley come see about me,” Williams said. “He stopped doing everything.”

Williams, who would not specify how much money Romney gave her, said also that South Carolina Treasurer Curtis Loftis paid her light bill on Thursday. A spokesman for Loftis, one of Romney’s major endorses in the state, confirmed to ABC News that he paid Williams’ bill. While Loftis didn’t know the amount of the bill, he confirmed that he gave her $150.

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Williams said she has been volunteering at Romney’s Columbia headquarters since meeting his bus last week.

“I’ve been working at his campaign office cleaning and just doing little things,” she said.

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While Williams would not specify how much money Romney gave her, a campaign spokesman said that he believes Romney gave the woman between $50 and $60.

[Pinetop]

I don’t see it as such a big deal. She sounds a little off her rocker-—she was following the campaign bus on God’s instruction. Who knows what else God would tell her to do? I would have given her money and diverted her to state resources, too. Much better alternative than calling security.

[Sapwolf]

For Romney, it is a POLITICAL move, nothing else.

[Nickname]

Tacky, like politicians who show up at Thanksgiving Day soup kitchens with the media in tow to feed the cute little proles.

[Lancey Howard]

It was money, no doubt, that “Chainsaw Mitt” stole from one of the companies he looted.
There’s plenty more where that came from.

[traditional1]

" And have them say, “You paid that other woman’s bills, why won’t you pay mine?"

The other thing would be to have a bunch of black homeless guys in line, then play the Race Card when he doesn't hand them cash.....