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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf Romney gets in, everyone will have to stay at the Marriott
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/marriott-is-mainstay-for-romney-campaign/2012/10/14/895a13f8-1620-11e2-8792-cf5305eddf60_story.htmlOn the campaign trail, Mitt Romney incessantly talks about his five points to get the country moving again, but the only points anyone traveling with the GOP nominee is interested in are Marriott points.
The candidate has made the hotel chain the semi-official innkeeper of his presidential campaign. From Iowa to Ohio to New York City, Romney has wheeled his carry-on bag into Marriott lobbies and passed the omnipresent portrait of J. Willard Marriott and his son, John Willard Bill Marriott Jr. a Romney contemporary, fellow Mormon scion and, along with his brother, a donor of more than $1 million to the Republicans effort.
The Romneys and Marriotts go way back. J. Willard was a dear friend of Mitts father, George, with whom he sold tamales in Washington during the Depression Era...
Romney, who once sat on the Marriott board, has stayed loyal to the Marriott empire. And now so has the phalanx of campaign operatives, television producers, camera operators and reporters, checking in behind the candidate with corporate cards in hand. (On Sunday, the Obama campaign press corp was also camped out at a Courtyard Marriott in Williamsburg.)
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If Romney gets in, everyone will have to stay at the Marriott (Original Post)
jsr
Oct 2012
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L0oniX
(31,493 posts)1. More like the $25 a night whore motel in crack town.
regnaD kciN
(26,045 posts)2. ...and coffee will be outlawed...
...leading us in Seattle to secede. If it comes to civil war, we'll win -- because we'll be the only ones awake.
siligut
(12,272 posts)3. And we will have to stop thinking for ourselves
And swearing will be illegal.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)4. If he's elected, we people will only be allowed to stay at the Motel 5. nt