Posted on 07/20/2011 4:20:52 AM PDT by Diogenesis
Luxury jets, hotels on Mitt Romneys $5 million campaign tab (flip-flop alert)
"... Mitt Romney shelled out more than $5 million
in campaign cash over the past three months,
including blowing $80,000 on hotel rooms in Las Vegas,
$50,000 on a security squad
and $125,000 on private jets despite a pledge
to scale back on luxury travel, new campaign filings show.
The Beverly-based flights were aboard a 2005 Cessna Citation CJ3,
an eight-seat luxury corporate jet
with leather interior and a staggering $5.8 million price tag.
"News of the flights comes after an April speech in Iowa,
during which Romney said his 2012 campaign
would be more frugal than his 2008 operation,
especially on private jet use."
".... The reports also show Romney spent $1.6 million on consultants"
"Megan Jacobs, spokeswoman for the Iowa Democratic Party,
said the spending flies in the face of Romneys decision not to put
resources into participating in the Iowa straw poll in August."
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
“Its just a bunch of numbers without context”
You are correct. In regards to the jet, it seats eight. How many peoeple were traveling? Were they going places not served by air carrier? What was their schedule? Was it more productive to fly than to sit in a car or an airline terminal?
This message is intended for those posters on FR who seem to have missed my prior statements in this regard and insist on advocating for these bastards.
I'd rather shut the place down than be involved in any effort to install abortionist/gay rights pushing RINOS like Romney or Giuliani into the White House!!
Do NOT push this crap on FR. Take your business elsewhere!! And I don't care how long you've been here!!
Say anything you want about Obama, I don't care but to use these kinds of false attacks on Republicans is ridiculous and wrong.
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Simply tell the truth, that's all I'm saying. There is NO evidence Romney is a Communist and LLS calls him a Communist. Put the onus on LLS to tell the truth.
YEAH... WHAT HE SAID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LLS
~LLS
What about the rest of the above post? LLS said much more than that Mitt is a communist.
LLS
I despise Communism but there is NO evidence that Romney is a Communist. If there is, produce it but this is a severe step to call someone a Communist. Heck, call Obama a Commie lover, I don't care because I might agree with that. Call Harkin a Commie lover, that's ok with me but to call Romney a Communist is getting carried away with the truth and only destroys one's own credibility.
I have given you a PRIME example... several in fact. Where do you think obamacare came from? If you state that obamacare is not of communist origin... then you have never read marx or lenin... or you cannot comprehend their writings.
LLS
I accused you of nothing. I underlined what The Owner of this site stated about Romney.
Put the onus on LLS to tell the truth.
He did tell teh truth. You simply don't know the truth or are denying it.
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With which parts do you agree?
Heck, I personally believe the federal government has NO role in providing SS, medical care or education for ANYONE. NO ONE--period. If I could, I would abolish many departments from the federal government. One only has to look at the fix we are in now and see the roots of these problems exist in federal programs that should never have been started.
However, I will not call all who have been involved in any of these programs Communists. That is a horrible thing to call someone without strong evidence supporting it.
classless political system: the political theory or system in which all property and wealth is owned in a classless society by all the members of that society
Synonyms: collectivism, socialism, communalism, Marxism, Leninism, Trotskyism, Maoism
Communist fits a big government statist like Romney.
I like reading Regan quotes because I can hear his voice as I am reading them. Feels a bit like he is still here.
(I get the same feeling when I read Anne Coulter, but it makes me want to hide around the corner. She’s more woman than I could handle.)
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It has nothing to do with coveting.
Try to pay attention.
If he spends his money(even his campaign money) like this how will he spend ours.
Can you understand that we now have a person in the White House that spends like a drunken sailor, and you believe Romney who is doing the same in his campaign will do anything less?
What EXACTLY do you call socialized medicine with taxpayer-funded abortion and homosexual "marriage"?
Say anything you want about Obama, I don't care but to use these kinds of false attacks on Republicans is ridiculous and wrong.
So, when a Democrat pushes communism we can attack them, but when someone with an "R" after their name does the EXACT SAME THING we are supposed to ignore it?
Do you actually have conservative principles or are you more interested in the letter after a person's name?
I’m no Mitt fan, but why can’t this lvel of scrutiny be applied to Queen Nancy and Emperor O-Croesus?
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