Day: April 16, 2012

Pay $50,000 Now And Get “Preferred Status” at Mitt Romney’s “Inauguration” – No Joke!

Post author By Ezra Grant
Post date April 16, 2012
No Comments on Pay $50,000 Now And Get “Preferred Status” at Mitt Romney’s “Inauguration” – No Joke!

Inauguration Day may be nine months away, but that’s not stopping Mitt Romney from cashing in on the possibility that he could be president-elect by then.

In a fundraising plea circulated by a Georgia supporter andobtained by Buzzfeed, the campaign was said to be “asking people who are able to make a $50,000 contribution to do so today and become a ‘Founding Member’ of Romney Victory,” a new joint fundraising committee that allows Romney to rake in larger donations than he had been collecting through his single campaign committee.

In return, the campaign is offering invitations to “a special retreat in late June in California,” “yet to be determined access” at the GOP convention in August, and “preferred status” at a presidential inaugural retreat.

The $50,000 contribution required for this special access is steep, but still below the legal maximum of $75,800 that an individual can give to the committee.

Source: LA Times

Okay. We can all laugh now!

Tags 50000, inauguration

Politics

Mitt Romney Targets The Department of Urban Development For Elimination

Post author By Ezra Grant
Post date April 16, 2012
No Comments on Mitt Romney Targets The Department of Urban Development For Elimination

In what is being billed as his most specific policy speech to date, the Republican presumptive nominee Mitt Romney, spoke to a group of donors over the weekend and explained that HUD – The Department of Urban Development – “might not be around later.”

Romney went into a level of detail not usually seen by the public in the speech, which was overheard by reporters on a sidewalk below. One possibility floated by Romney included the elimination of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Cabinet-level agency once led by Romney’s father, George.

“I’m going to take a lot of departments in Washington, and agencies, and combine them. Some eliminate, but I’m probably not going to lay out just exactly which ones are going to go,” Romney said. “Things like Housing and Urban Development, which my dad was head of, that might not be around later. But I’m not going to actually go through these one by one. What I can tell you is, we’ve got far too many bureaucrats. I will send a lot of what happens in Washington back to the states.”

So what is HUD? According to their website, HUD’s mission is to create strong, sustainable, inclusive communities and quality affordable homes for all. HUD is working to strengthen the housing market to bolster the economy and protect consumers; meet the need for quality affordable rental homes: utilize housing as a platform for improving quality of life; build inclusive and sustainable communities free from discrimination.

Yep, who needs that?