Posted on 08/10/2012 8:12:36 AM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
One of Mitt Romney's Chicago fundraisers took on a "true confessions" feel, and the can.
Romney related this his father George Romney, the former Michigan Governor, carried with him “a little pink card, and it said: this entitles George W. Romney to a lifetime of a hamburger, a shake and French fries at McDonalds.”
From the pool report:
The Republican presidential candidate said the card “was signed by Ray Kroc. My dad had done a little training lesson … for McDonald’s when there was just a handful of restaurants.” Mitt Romney had the card laminated for his father. “My dad, as you know, would go almost every day to a McDonald’s restaurant and get either a hamburger or a fish filet sandwich. And he would present this little card and of course the person behind the counter would look and say, well, what is that? They’d never seen something like that, but he said it was never turned down They always honored it.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcchicago.com ...
Obama eats for free every day, and with far better fare than MickeyD’s.
Did’t he stiff some wait staff people?
Last I heard, he still has not paid his bill to Orange County for his fundraising trips.
BTW, it goes both ways ~ the federales are not allowed to split the bill with private sector intervenors or vendors.
“Small perks ~ once you become a government employee, or government official ~ elected or appointed ~ are violations of the law ~ felonies if you collect enough of them.”
Wrong, not when it is from work you did before taking office.
The message is not that he ate common food, but that he wanted it free.
He would have eaten anywhere if the millionaire corporate head issued the millionaire governor a personally signed, rich/powerful people don’t pay, card.
Regular people, working people, people who are in a recession don’t want to hear how the rich pamper and fawn over each other, and then how a greedy rich man will eat McDonalds just because it’s free and saves him pennies.
This story is so typical of Mitt, he may as well be a Martian, I bet $10,000.00 that average Americans flinch at this tale of the rich and powerful.
No, you are wrong ~ even then ~ because it may have the appearance of impropriety!
The President (and the White House/Office of the President, per se) has an expense allowance(s). Try starting your search here: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/3/102
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