Romney Threatened To Cancel Univision Forum If Not Allowed To Bus In Supporters

[Lakhota]

By Igor Volsky

Mitt Romney packed the audience for a Univision forum earlier this week, BuzzFeed’s McKay Coppins reports, busing in local supporters “after exhausting the few conservative groups on campus.” The campaign threatened to “reschedule” the event if organizers did not allow the “rowdy activists from around southern Florida in order to fill the extra seats at their town hall.”

Romney also refused to come out on stage after the hosts introduced him by noting that he “had agreed to give the network 35 minutes, and that Obama had agreed to a full hour the next night.” Univision re-taped the introduction after Romney allegedly “threw a tantrum.”

During the event, Romney dodged four questions about whether he would maintain President Obama’s directive allowing young undocumented immigrants to stay in the United States on a temporary basis and said that he is happy to be known as “the grandfather of Obamacare.”

Romney has a history of padding the audience.

More: Romney Threatened To Cancel Univision Forum If Organizers Didn't Allow Him To Bus In Supporters | ThinkProgress

 

[Yurt]

meadowmuffins

and stop running from your claim the film maker is a terrorist

 

[Ravi]

That's pretty funny. Did he manage to find Hispanic supporters to bus in or did he also get them to wear dark make up like Mitten did?

 

[OKTexas]

And of course the commie Maobama never dodges questions or buses in supporters. I guess he always goes to forums where he'll be asked tough questions also. A few of your own tactics are used against you and you cry foul, give me a freaking break.

 

[Yurt]

when ravi posts

the gods cry

 

[rightwinger]

Romney fluffers

 

[California Girl]

when ravi posts

the gods cry

It's funny how sources matter.... when it's the right wing... when someone posts crap that supports her view, she accepts it without question... the epitome of a hack.

 

[Yurt]

when ravi posts

the gods cry

It's funny how sources matter.... when it's the right wing... when someone posts crap that supports her view, she accepts it without question... the epitome of a hack.

so true. such is our little ravi.

 

[Yurt]

obama buses in supporters frequently, but that doesn't matter to ravi

 

[Black_Label]

This is hilarious. I doubt anyone would show up so he has to bus people in to fill seats

 

[uscitizen]

That's pretty funny. Did he manage to find Hispanic supporters to bus in or did he also get them to wear dark make up like Mitten did?

He got a busload of Boehner fans.

 

[uscitizen]

obama buses in supporters frequently, but that doesn't matter to ravi

the forum was supposed to be students only.

 

[Ravi]

That's pretty funny. Did he manage to find Hispanic supporters to bus in or did he also get them to wear dark make up like Mitten did?

He got a busload of Boehner fans.

Now that's funny, I don't care who you are.

Did you see how on the "edited" two minutes from Romney's epic fail video he admitted that the only good Latinos were gardeners that he could pay under the table?

 

[EriktheRed]

when ravi posts

the gods cry

It's funny how sources matter.... when it's the right wing... when someone posts crap that supports her view, she accepts it without question... the epitome of a hack.

How does it feel to know the candidate you've been fluffing had to bus in non-student supporters because he couldn't find enough students on campus who liked him enough to attend?

 

[uscitizen]

So Univision must be that liberal media I keep hearing about.

 

[Conservative]

pretty sure when Obama bussed in supporters to the DNC, the libtards were all for busing in supporters. I guess that was before they were against it.

 

[Conservative]

when ravi posts

the gods cry

It's funny how sources matter.... when it's the right wing... when someone posts crap that supports her view, she accepts it without question... the epitome of a hack.

How does it feel to know the candidate you've been fluffing had to bus in non-student supporters because he couldn't find enough students on campus who liked him enough to attend?

Democrats set to move Obama's big speech from 74,000-seater outdoor stadium to 20,000-seater indoor arena | Mail Online

The Obama campaign have been working desperately to ensure that the 74,000-seater Bank of America stadium in Charlotte would be filled.

Buses for students from across North Carolina and even members of black churches in neighboring South Carolina have been arranged.

this was just different... right?

 

[Clementine]

Obama buses in supporters all the time and even vets them prior to allowing them to ask questions. And he, of all people, should be answering the tough questions. Presidents should take the press on, but we're always handling him with kid gloves and saving the boxing gloves for his opponents.

 

[ScienceRocks]

The sad truth about the meso communitiy is the fact that they support total amnesty for all of Mexico. That fucking sucks.

 

[EriktheRed]

It's funny how sources matter.... when it's the right wing... when someone posts crap that supports her view, she accepts it without question... the epitome of a hack.

How does it feel to know the candidate you've been fluffing had to bus in non-student supporters because he couldn't find enough students on campus who liked him enough to attend?

Democrats set to move Obama's big speech from 74,000-seater outdoor stadium to 20,000-seater indoor arena | Mail Online

The Obama campaign have been working desperately to ensure that the 74,000-seater Bank of America stadium in Charlotte would be filled.

Buses for students from across North Carolina and even members of black churches in neighboring South Carolina have been arranged.

this was just different... right?

In this case it is...the Obama campaign didn't have to pressure a venue to exempt them from their own rules.

And ya know what else? Despite that example you cited, the Prez is just plain more popular than the Mittster. True story.