prolly write it off as a charitable donation...
Posted on 01/14/2012 6:54:40 PM PST by Steelfish
Romney Gives Cash To Struggling Supporter At Rally
Sumter, South Carolina (CNN) – Mitt Romney gave a handful of cash Saturday to a woman who had told him she was struggling financially after an event in Sumter, South Carolina.
An aide said the GOP candidate gave the supporter "what he had on him" - about $50 or $60.
The woman, Ruth Williams, met Romney earlier in the week and told him she was having trouble making ends meet. On Saturday, Romney recognized Williams while he was shaking hands with supporters after a rally, an aide said.
Romney spoke to the woman and handed her several bills.
"He was kind to me," Williams said. "He held onto me and he made Gov. [Nikki] Haley and them come see about me."
Williams told reporters that on Wednesday she had seen Romney's campaign bus on the highway and followed it to an airport. Aides then invited her to come meet the former governor at an event in Columbia.
"I was on the highway praying and said, 'God, tell me how to get [my] lights on, and I pulled up to a stop sign and his bus was there,'" Williams said.
Williams has been out of work since October and is caring for an ill son. She said that after meeting Romney she had also met South Carolina state treasurer and Romney supporter Curtis Loftis, and said he had given her money. She said she used the money to pay her light bill.
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He better becareful. She might accuse him later of molesting her and point to these donations as “payment”.
He gets a news story out of $50? Boy is the media in the tank for this guy. That is until the general election.
Ew.
She didnt have money for her light bill but she has money to buy gas and run up and down the highway acting like a RomneyBot groupie ???
sure
AKA `Henrietta Hughes’
Uhhh, campaign finance laws? I don’t think you’re allowed to buy votes Mittens.
I detest Mitt Romney but that was a nice thing to do.
I hope he got some contact info from her and will send her more.
“He held onto me and he made Gov. [Nikki] Haley and them
Yes, sir. :-)
so when she first saw the bus and talked to the “aides” the media were not arouns so she was told to come back in a few days and where to be so this astounding act of generousity could be recorded for the 6 o’c;ock news
Yeah OK
Willie Mitty got headlines out of that obvious set up...
Now how exactly do mitt’s people expect this to play? That he’s generous? Empathetic? Or ignorant of FEC campaign law?
Then he tied her to the a crate on the top of his car and spoke French to her.
Still, it's more than Barack would have given her.
Come to think of it Barack would have given her $50 of my money.
“Then he tied her to the a crate on the top of his car and spoke French to her.”
I hear there’s an app for that now.
Well lets look at how generous Willie Mitty was
He got a good deal of publicity for his cheap $50=60
Hes got $250 MILLION and he gave her $50
Thats $1 for every $5 MILLION
Thats way less than a penny for you and me...
FReepers whens the last time you only put <1 cent in the basket when they were collecting to help someone at your church or office etc ???
Com’n anyone as cheap as Willie Mitty ???
Mitt Le Pew: “All I care about is love.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEdBndu0YUM
prolly write it off as a charitable donation...
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