Wednesday, Oct 3, 2012

THE ROMNEY TAPE: AM I TOO OLD TO ENLIST IN THE CLASS WAR?

I first heard the Romney calculus many years ago in Peru. A government official explained to me that: "Most of the population doesn't count; they pay no taxes and receive no government services." There was a revolution. I was not at the $50,000-a-plate fundraiser for Romney, held at the multimillion dollar Florida palace of one of his supporters. "I mean, there won't be any houses like this if we stay on the road we're on," Romney told his supporters. Hmm, I think I could live with that. It's the person who surreptitiously taped the event and shared it with the rest of us that I want to know. Nobody goes to a $50,000-a-plate affair for the food; it's the connections, which in Romney's case began at Cranbrook School in the affluent Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills, a traditional private boys preparatory school, with a $300 million endowment.

Bob Park can be reached via email at whatsnew@bobpark.org
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