Politico updates following Mitt Romney’s town hall in Grand Junction today:
Mitt Romney will make a stop in Colorado Springs to pitch in on relief efforts for the hundreds of families impacted by the Colorado wildfires.
“He’s going to Care and Share and packaging up goods for victims of the fires,” a campaign aide told reporters here in Grand Junction. “Our campaign went down a couple of weeks ago and volunteered.”
The campaign aide said that the Romney campaign’s victory offices throughout the state have also been collecting goods for the Salvation Army, also to benefit victims impacted by the wildfires.
Over the last few days, we’ve followed the lead-up to Romney’s campaign swing through Colorado–beginning with word last Thursday from FOX 31’s Eli Stokols that Romney was planning public events “focused on the wildfires that have been burning across the state.” This would have taken place in the context of recent attempts by local Republicans to blame President Barack Obama’s administration in some fashion for the devastation caused by these fires. That attempt to assign blame for the fires on the Obama administration came despite votes by Colorado Republican congressman to cut federal firefighting budgets by hundreds of millions of dollars–and after Romney himself disparaged Obama’s plans to hire “more firefighters.”
Well folks, it does appear that Romney’s campaign got the message, and is taking the high road that surrogates didn’t. Today’s town hall appearance by Romney in Grand Junction made no attempt to blame Obama for the wildfires, only commending the bravery of an individual who was injured and praising Colorado’s “spirit.” Likewise, a visit by Romney to a local charity to make care packages for displaced families before he leaves is a perfectly decent thing to do.
It would have been worse for Romney to have continued these attacks after himself having indirectly called for fewer public safety resources. Steering clear of that line of attack was smart, but it would still be nice to see a local reporter ask Romney if he really wants fewer firefighters in Colorado–something a no-press charity event rules out neatly.
Better luck next time; we’d say Colorado voters deserve an answer.
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Romney is a good man who takes the high road most of the time.
why the hell not.
Woof. Woof.
the streetlights, the firefighters, the police, the teachers, your rights, the EPA and your job. As another educator put it:
I do not like that Romney, Mitt.
I do not like his plans one bit.
I do not care that he is rich.
I do not like his accounts BankSwiss.
I do not like his healthcre’s free,
I do not like “But just for me!”
I do not like his Etch-A-Sketch
his flip and flopping makes me retch.
I do not like “A woman’s place…”
is back in 1950’s space.
I do not like his snobby air.
I do not like his “I don’t care”.
I do not like he’s anti-science.
I do not like EPA noncompliance.
I do not like his Wall Street friends.
I do not like their selfish trends.
I do not like the “job creators”.
They want us all to be their waiters.
But… “The trees are the right height.”
I’m with him on that.
today to allow “temporary” firefighters to obtain federal health insurance.
Romney does a photo op like McCain to package a couple of care boxes and Obama issues a directive to directly help firefighters in the field and lift moral of the entire force. The comparisons couldn’t be more stark and not in a good way for Romney. Good policy versus hack politics.
at using his incumbency and his bully pulpit. Finally. And to his credit, it’s not just for good politics but it’s darned good policy.
http://www.gjsentinel.com/news…
And how about that opener!
That is NOT Ray Scott above. As noted, that is Chucky. Like Ray, he too is a puppet. Only scary.