Mitt Romney set to take over Fenway Park and the Banknorth Garden for fundraising gigs
Mitt Romney's presidential campaign will commandeer Fenway Park and a Boston arena for a night and a day late next week for a major last-minute fundraising extravanganza. It even has a fancy title: "America's Calling."
And once again, reporters are invited.
A couple hundred Romney supporters will attend the official National Call Day on the 25th after a massive bar-b-que at Fenway on the 24th.They'll be seated around tables on the parquet floor of the Boston Garden (er, the TD Banknorth Garden, a bastard child of the old Bank of Boston, Bay Bank, North Bank, Bank North and TD Waterhouse), home of the Celtics, with the charge of raising $5K each. The campaign hopes to raise at least $2.5M, according to one Republican familiar with the goals.
The first 100 to sign up will get their hotel rooms comped.
Admission is $5,000, per the invitations.
One can imagine this will probably entail large-scale, intrusive security measures - measures that have a good chance of making travel through Boston a bit more hellish than usual.
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Why on earth would he have those here?
I can only imagine him pitching these things as a chance of sticking it to Massachusetts right where we live, sort of like George 41's Boston Harbor ads.
Let's Review
- Mittler takes more vacation than George W. Bush during his term.
- He tours Southern and Midwestern states dissing his constituents.
- He doesn't get his way with the gay marriage vote last Fall and slashes the budget of programs for poor and sick people.
- He takes his historic 'Long Walk' down the State House steps a day early to great acclaim from his hand-picked crowd and the media, neatly avoiding the reaction from the real crowd assembled to see Deval Patrick sworn in.
Yeah, I'd say the fundraisers are a big "Fuck You" to MA citizens. Then there's this.
This guy is a first class turd.
Does This Need Explaining Again?
People--the man ran for governor, immediately set his sights on the White House, and proceeded to diss our great state to anyone who would listen. Fundraiser? Only if it's to buy him a ticket outta here. I understand Utah is very nice this time of year...
He's got many a rich friends
He's got many a rich friends @ Bain and BCG, not to mention other Businesses.
Anyone remember when "go fuck yourself" Cheney shut down storrow for a meeting with the "good ol' boys" on commonwealth?
Oh, yeah, what a Dick
Hey, remember when Cheney shut down 128 at rush hour (also, parts of the Turnpike and 495) so he could motorcade from Hanscom to a fundraiser at his pal Dick Egan's place in Hopkinton?
Hey, Mitt! America's Calling!
And don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out.