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kpete

(71,994 posts)
Sat Sep 1, 2012, 11:25 AM Sep 2012

"Go home and call 211."

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney launched the final leg of his quest for the White House by visiting storm-battered Louisiana on Friday. He drove through a town that was flooded by Hurricane Isaac in part because it's still outside the vast flooding protection system built with federal funds after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.

Romney and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) spent close to an hour meeting with first responders and local officials. Romney shook hands with National Guardsmen outside the U.S. Post Office and talked with a local resident, Jodie Chiarello, 42, who lost her home in Isaac's flooding.

"He just told me to, um, there's assistance out there," Chiarello said of her conversation with Romney. "He said, go home and call 211." That's a public service number offered in many states.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/01/mitt-romney-211_n_1848432.html

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tjdee

(18,048 posts)
1. Why didn't he tell her to build it? You know, from her other home?
Sat Sep 1, 2012, 11:28 AM
Sep 2012

Everyone has another home, so all she has to do is go there, get the money and build another home.

Gotta love Mitt suggesting that she be a leech on society.
*smh*

Solly Mack

(90,769 posts)
2. To be fair, republicans do talk to empty chairs and can see invisible people
Sat Sep 1, 2012, 11:31 AM
Sep 2012

and now we know they can see invisible houses.

What an idiot.

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
3. If the people have no bread to eat ... let them eat cake!
Sat Sep 1, 2012, 11:40 AM
Sep 2012

No house to live? Let them take refuge in their mansion with the car elevator.

underpants

(182,823 posts)
4. Romney shook hands with National Guardsmen outside the U.S. Post Office
Sat Sep 1, 2012, 06:09 PM
Sep 2012

that's a whole lot of Gubment funding right there

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