Romney Threatened To Cancel Univision Forum If Organizers Didn’t Allow Him To Bus In Supporters

[Tx4obama]

Romney Threatened To Cancel Univision Forum If Organizers Didn’t Allow Him To Bus In Supporters

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.”

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Full article here: http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/09/22/893531/romney-threatened-to-cancel-univision-forum-if-organizers-didnt-allow-him-to-bus-in-supporters/

Additional article, with photo, here:
How Romney Packed The Univision Forum
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/how-romney-packed-the-univision-forum



And below is a 'comment' that I saw on HuffPo earlier today, I do not know the original source of the text.

Univision says that during his townhall with them,the Romney campaign packed the hall with non-students because they couldn’t find enough supporters on campus,when the anchor gave an introduction to Mitt that he didn’t like, he refused to go on until they re-taped it.

While introducing Romney , Salinas’s co-anchor, Jorge Ramos, noted that the Republican candidate had agreed to give the network 35 minutes, and that Obama had agreed to a full hour the next night. Ramos then invited the audience to welcome Romney to the stage,the candidate didn’t materialize.
Apparently, Romney took issue with the anchors beginning the broadcast that way, said Salinas, and he refused to go on stage until they re-taped the introduction. (One Republican present at the taping said Romney “threw a tantrum.”)
Making last minute “demands” that would ensure his success, indeed threatening to “reschedule” if he wasn’t allowed an exemption to the student only rule and then packing the forum with rowdy, bused-in supporters who ignored the rules not to applaud, the Romney campaign later gloated that the Hispanic forum was more “excited” for Mitt than for Obama, whose also partisan crowd did not ignore the rules.

The image of “excitement” was apparently nothing but a carefully constructed mirage, propped up backstage manipulations and string pulling. The host seemed put out by the disrespect by the bused-in Romney crowd, who booed questions while cheering the candidate as if the forum were a rally.

[tjdee]

1. Univision can f*** off--who cares?

This is the third thread I'm saying this in, lol.

Guess what? They should have pointed this out to people. Instead they sat back, helped him stretch his 35 minutes to an hour, stayed quiet, let the whole thing go through.....


so if NOW they want to say what happened, sorry but it's too little too late. Screw them.

[HopeHoops]

2. Without Koch-paid supporters, rMoney wouldn't have an audience.