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Romney donation fiasco blows up in his face

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Kettering bus of supplies arrives | Politics Extra

Agency officials told The Enquirer they are grateful for help, but don’t want people – including political candidates – sending supplies. They would rather have donations of money and blood.
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Tsk Romney.. but at least it seems he did donate money too...

We are not asking for material donations,” said Laura Steinmetz, spokeswoman for the South Jersey Region of the organization. “Financial donations allow us to quickly and efficiently meet the needs of the people in a disaster. It’s far more expensive for us to receive the donated goods, sort them, warehouse them and transport them. So our financial donations are much more cost effective.”
Steinmetz told The Enquirer the Red Cross uses the money to make purchases in or close to communities affected by a disaster, which helps contribute to the area’s financial recovery.
“We’ve always done that with all our disasters,” she said. “It’s the quickest, most efficient way to get what the people need. It’s not that we’re turning down or turning away a donation. We’re just trying to direct it in the most cost effective way.”
The Red Cross website also promotes financial contributions and discourages donations of supplies saying the latter “impedes the valuable resources of money, time and personnel.”
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So there are 2 things that are preventing help in New Jersey... fuel shortages and Mitt Romney!

2 days to go!
 
PeteEU said:
Kettering bus of supplies arrives | Politics Extra

Tsk Romney.. but at least it seems he did donate money too...

So there are 2 things that are preventing help in New Jersey... fuel shortages and Mitt Romney!

2 days to go![/FONT][/COLOR]
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Yeah, the bastard:

The 10,000 cans of food, 6,000 diapers, 6,000 bottles of water, first aid kits, tarps, clothing, blankets, flashlights and batteries – much of it purchased by the Romney Ohio campaign – will be distributed as needed to shelters in the area, said Nigel Holderby, a Red Cross spokeswoman in southern New Jersey.
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Shame on you for politicizing helping victims of Sandy... I am pretty sure that those who are now homeless, with no food, water, clothing, or gas don't really care where the help comes from.

This thread is disgusting. I'm out.
 
Just a politician doing what politicians do. I'm sure he's not the first, Democrat or Republican, and certainly he will not be the last. The fact is the aid was legitimate, even if the presentation was a lie. I doubt the victims will mind much who paid for these goods.
 
Redress said:
Attacking people for trying to help people, no matter the motive or effectiveness, is really ****ing lame.
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It's the curse of free speech, better to learn to live with it, than to overly restrict it and eventually end up forcing our kids to fight another revolution to get it back.
 
roflpublican said:
It's the curse of free speech, better to learn to live with it, than to restrict it and eventually end up forcing our kids to fight another revolution to get it back.
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That's true. But we can still call it "really ****ing lame."
 
This has to be the worst thread ever. Really, Romney giving to those in current dire distress is a bad thing? Really, this makes sense in the OP's mind? Utter insanity.
 
roflpublican said:
It's the curse of free speech, better to learn to live with it, than to overly restrict it and eventually end up forcing our kids to fight another revolution to get it back.
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Free speech primer: I did not say he could not say it, so I am not attacking his free speech. Free speech means though that I am also free to call his speech ****ing lame.

Nice try though.

Well, not really.
 
Redress said:
Attacking people for trying to help people, no matter the motive or effectiveness, is really ****ing lame.
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What is lame is that Romney is seems to be getting away with slowing down the help to the victims. That is lame.

Like it or not, Romney's photo op so called relief help bull**** is not what the relief agencies want...and he and his advisers know this but despite that went ahead any-ways because they could get a photo-op out of it during a time when Obama was taking away focus from their candidate.

So Romney's "donations" not only never got to where they were suppose to go, but they were not really wanted because of the resources being used to get them in place... and the donations did not help the local economy.. in fact it hurt the local economy... /clap.
 
PeteEU said:
Kettering bus of supplies arrives | Politics Extra



Tsk Romney.. but at least it seems he did donate money too...



So there are 2 things that are preventing help in New Jersey... fuel shortages and Mitt Romney!

2 days to go![/FONT][/COLOR]
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I am, by no means, a partisan for Mitt Romney.

But even though the American Red Cross prefers blood donations and money donations, I'm sure that they won't turn down donations of canned food.

Also - and I may get a bit of flack on my own for this - by donating materials directly the donors know for sure that it will go to victims.

One concern when it comes to charities is in how they spend the money donated to them. Yes, people are donating money to the Red Cross. But those donors want that money to go directly on victims of Hurricane Sandy. How do donors know that that money won't, instead, go to some sort of general fund for some other relief elsewhere or elsewhen?

So this isn't the great criticism of Romney that you would like it to be. And posting inane meaningless stuff like this does not help when such legitimate criticisms are made.
 
Redress said:
Free speech primer: I did not say he could not say it, so I am not attacking his free speech. Free speech means though that I am also free to call his speech ****ing lame.

Nice try though.

Well, not really.
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I think you misunderstood.
 
He's not slowing down anything. This might be the biggest fail thread of all time. As if charity and giving are somehow bad things.

By the way, this story is days old.... and the Salvation Army has come out and said that if the Red Cross doesn't want the supplies, the Salvation Army will be happy to take them.

PeteEU said:
What is lame is that Romney is seems to be getting away with slowing down the help to the victims. That is lame.

Like it or not, Romney's photo op so called relief help bull**** is not what the relief agencies want...and he and his advisers know this but despite that went ahead any-ways because they could get a photo-op out of it during a time when Obama was taking away focus from their candidate.

So Romney's "donations" not only never got to where they were suppose to go, but they were not really wanted because of the resources being used to get them in place... and the donations did not help the local economy.. in fact it hurt the local economy... /clap.
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Curse that Romney for giving away food and money and stuff to help the refugees. He should be that bad, cold hearted bastard. Now things are too complicated! Some people may have a nervous breakdown when they discover things aren't one dimensional.
 
I have to agree, this thread should be flushed down. I'm glad to see Romney is showing some character and helping out those in need.
 
helix2048 said:
I have to agree, this thread should be flushed down. I'm glad to see Romney is showing some character and helping out those in need.
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Since the OP has tried to politicize Romney's donations, I wonder if he can dig up information on how much Obama and/or Biden have donated out of their own wallets. Hmm.
 
PeteEU said:
What is lame is that Romney is seems to be getting away with slowing down the help to the victims. That is lame.

Like it or not, Romney's photo op so called relief help bull**** is not what the relief agencies want...and he and his advisers know this but despite that went ahead any-ways because they could get a photo-op out of it during a time when Obama was taking away focus from their candidate.

So Romney's "donations" not only never got to where they were suppose to go, but they were not really wanted because of the resources being used to get them in place... and the donations did not help the local economy.. in fact it hurt the local economy... /clap.
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Are you really complaining about him 'slowing down the help to victims'? At least he sent something, that's all that matters. Let me ask you, what have you sent the victims of Sandy?
 
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