MARIS61
Real American
- Joined
- Sep 12, 2008
- Messages
- 28,007
- Likes
- 5,012
- Points
- 113
Romney’s ringers? GOP candidate’s campaign requested NAACP passes for black ‘VIPs’
When Mitt Romney spoke to the NAACP’s annual convention on Wednesday, polite applause could be heard throughout, with two exceptions: 14 seconds of booing when Romney told the crowd he would repeal “Obamacare” if elected president, and several instances of small, but strong, pockets of vigorous applause.
Related: Romney ‘booed by design?‘
According to the NAACP’s senior vice president of policy and advocacy, Hilary Shelton, the cheers came from a group of black supporters who came to the speech with Mr. Romney. Shelton told MSNBC host Ed Schultz those are also the African-Americans Romney boasted to Fox News that he met with after the speech, who told him that many blacks won’t admit it, but they don’t plan to vote to re-elect President Barack Obama.
A source close to the proceedings provided theGrio with a list of 22 people, including 10 VIPs, Romney asked the NAACP to provide credentials for, and 12 others for whom “general” admission was requested. The general admission invites went to Romney campaign staffers and advisers, along with several members of a Texas black Republican group. The campaign reportedly asked for eight additional passes, though it’s not clear whether they were used.
Those on the VIP list include prominent black Republicans: the current lieutenant governor of Florida, Jennifer Carroll, and the former Secretary of Education under President George W. Bush, Rod Paige. Also among the VIP’s: rising GOP star Mia Love, vying to become the first black Republican member of Congress from Utah; another black Republican congressional candiate, Ryan Frazier, who is running for office in Colorado; Niger Innis, the national spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and Pastor Jeffrey Brown, described in the request as a “personal friend of WMR,” referring to Willard “Mitt” Romney. Brown is also the executive director of the Boston TenPoint Coalition, a conservative religious organization which focuses on mobilizing communities around programs for black and Latino youth.
Shelton says they are also people who don’t typically come to the NAACP convention.
“Whenever a candidate comes” to the convention, Shelton told TheGrio, “usually they have local elected officials, VIPs, etc.,” attend with them. “We always take care of them,” Shelton said, “so we told him ‘no problem.’ We were just delighted to have him.”
“These are people who don’t normally come to the NAACP convention,” Shelton said. “And that’s OK. Mr. Romney wanted them and we provided credentials for all of them.”
http://thegrio.com/2012/07/12/romne...mpaign-requested-naacp-passes-for-black-vips/
When Mitt Romney spoke to the NAACP’s annual convention on Wednesday, polite applause could be heard throughout, with two exceptions: 14 seconds of booing when Romney told the crowd he would repeal “Obamacare” if elected president, and several instances of small, but strong, pockets of vigorous applause.
Related: Romney ‘booed by design?‘
According to the NAACP’s senior vice president of policy and advocacy, Hilary Shelton, the cheers came from a group of black supporters who came to the speech with Mr. Romney. Shelton told MSNBC host Ed Schultz those are also the African-Americans Romney boasted to Fox News that he met with after the speech, who told him that many blacks won’t admit it, but they don’t plan to vote to re-elect President Barack Obama.
A source close to the proceedings provided theGrio with a list of 22 people, including 10 VIPs, Romney asked the NAACP to provide credentials for, and 12 others for whom “general” admission was requested. The general admission invites went to Romney campaign staffers and advisers, along with several members of a Texas black Republican group. The campaign reportedly asked for eight additional passes, though it’s not clear whether they were used.
Those on the VIP list include prominent black Republicans: the current lieutenant governor of Florida, Jennifer Carroll, and the former Secretary of Education under President George W. Bush, Rod Paige. Also among the VIP’s: rising GOP star Mia Love, vying to become the first black Republican member of Congress from Utah; another black Republican congressional candiate, Ryan Frazier, who is running for office in Colorado; Niger Innis, the national spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and Pastor Jeffrey Brown, described in the request as a “personal friend of WMR,” referring to Willard “Mitt” Romney. Brown is also the executive director of the Boston TenPoint Coalition, a conservative religious organization which focuses on mobilizing communities around programs for black and Latino youth.
Shelton says they are also people who don’t typically come to the NAACP convention.
“Whenever a candidate comes” to the convention, Shelton told TheGrio, “usually they have local elected officials, VIPs, etc.,” attend with them. “We always take care of them,” Shelton said, “so we told him ‘no problem.’ We were just delighted to have him.”
“These are people who don’t normally come to the NAACP convention,” Shelton said. “And that’s OK. Mr. Romney wanted them and we provided credentials for all of them.”
http://thegrio.com/2012/07/12/romne...mpaign-requested-naacp-passes-for-black-vips/
