Mitt's Modest NY Fund-Raiser
The Sheraton New York Hotel has been getting a lot of pre-Presidential action these last few days. First Rudy Giuliani threw a baseball-themed bash there last Wednesday, March 14. And just four days ago, Hillary Clinton hosted a big-ticket mega-fundraiser headlined by her famous husband, Bill. Last night it was Mitt Romney's turn. But while his competitors boasted 1000-person, ballroom-sized events, the former governor's money-raiser was somewhat more modest. Romney's New York Fundraising Kickoff, as the event was billed, took place in a long, rectangular conference room located 100 or so twisty feet from the hotel's second-floor ballroom. There was an open bar for drinks and a single table of cheese, crackers, and crudite for guests to nibble. (Hillary, by contrast, laid on a spead of sirloin and risotto.)
Hosted by a handful of prominent finance types like William Harrison Jr. and Stanley Druckenmiller, the event was filled with middle aged men in suits, as well as a smattering of orthodox Jews and Young Republicans. The head count probably fell somehwere in the low hundreds. Besides Romney, the two big celebrities of the night were former Governor Bill Weld, who is also the candidate's New York finance chair, and onetime U.S. Senate candidate Rick Lazio, who stood around shaking hands long after both the candidate and Weld had left. -- Lizzy Ratner
The event had many more than stated, the room was packed! The support was fun and enthusiastic and the crowd swelled with huge contingencies from Harlem, Queens and all of the boroughs. These root GOP activist are not lemmings and know that Mitt is a true conservative candidate and not a RINO. This is Rudy's back yard and his supporters are leaving him in droves as the Rudy of September 10, 2001 creeps back into their memories. A great event for Mitt!
How can he be a "true conservative" when he is such a flip flopper? He isnt a Con or a Rino, he is a confused panderer. How do you go from pandering one way to try and win a senate seat and the completely change to a plethora of opposite views just to gain traction with the neocon base for the presidential race?
And they called Kerry a flip flopper. If kerry was a flip flopper, Romney is a flipping tilt-a-whirl.