Romney Holds Big-Money Fundraiser at N.Y. Billionaire John Paulson's Townhouse

Since billionaires are financing his campaign, why have I one of the little people gotten five fundraising letters from the Mitt Romney campaign asking for donations?  At least he is keeping the post office afloat.  RNC was in addition to the five in the last two days.  They are both getting the same -- zero, zip, nada.  Both Obama and Romney are reaching out to Wall Street and K Street -- some day those billionaires are going to want payback.  Nice to have two candidates who have sold out to the people on Wall Street that caused all the problems but then Romney is one of them and Obama uses them.  Although when you look at the figures it seems Romney has raised about four times as much as Obama ($2.48M to $625K) since the hedge fund and other venture capitalist have flocked to Romney.  Are they looking for a sweetheart deal if he was elected?  You can bank on that one and this quote from the article nails what is happening IMO.

“It’s not surprising that the people who profited the most from the economic crisis want to elect Mitt Romney.”

Looks like the Romney money bomb is failing as he has not even reached half of his goal of $2.5M as of last night but only has a little over $800,000.  Mormon Church needs to get busy and tell their members to anti up for one of their own like they have been doing with their votes as now their hero needs contributions.  Robocalls for money is not going to work with conservatives no matter how much the RNC Chair Priebus says we are coming on board.  I am still looking for the ones who are going to Romney and swallowing the Romney koolaid.  On conservative websites non-Romney supporters are still being attacked by the same people who have been attacking for months and still not working.  In fact being bullies is backfiring in a lot of instances.

Telling us that he is not in the hip pocket of Wall Street is a bad joke as now it is out in public that he held a huge fundraiser with a bunch of white guys for a Wall Street Hedge-fund billionaire John Paulson.  Imagine that looking out your window and seeing a bunch of white guys.  With only around 35% of the Republican vote in the primaries until Santorum dropped out, the RNC is whistling Dixie if they think that 65% of conservatives are going to come on board for Romney.  That is not happening.

As I have told the fundraisers who call, ask Romney for the money to fund his campaign or his Wall Street/KStreet buddies.  I have a budget to meet and that does not include funding the campaign of a multi-millionaire who keeps part of his assets off shore.

Romney Holds Big-Money Fundraiser at N.Y. Billionaire’s Townhouse
by Ben JacobsApr 27, 2012 8:50 PM EDT 

The Republican candidate has accepted donations from controversial hedge-fund billionaire John Paulson, but Thursday night he made their association more explicit by allowing Paulson to host a fundraiser, Ben Jacobs reports.

Mitt Romney held a high-dollar fundraiser Thursday night at the home of John Paulson, the controversial hedge-fund billionaire who made a fortune shorting the housing market and subprime mortgages in 2007.

Controversial hedge-fund billionaire John Paulson (right) held a fundraiser for Republican candidate Mitt Romney (left) in his Manhattan townhouse, Getty Images

New York grocery billionaire John Catsimatidis told The Daily Beast the fundraiser, at Paulson’s posh townhouse at 9 East 86th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, was a “big-dollar event” for wealthy donors like himself “fighting for the soul of America.” The Romney campaign did not return requests for information about the fundraiser—which was not listed on the candidate’s public schedule. Paulson’s publicist, Armel Leslie, also did not return calls seeking comment. 

A neighbor who witnessed the event from across the street described it to The Daily Beast as a large crowd of “older white people, mostly men,” who started showing up around 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Around 8 p.m., sirens started blaring as more and more people started to show. There was security at the door as well as a police car on the street. 

Then things became quiet until the sirens started up at 9:30 p.m. An SUV tried to block 86th Street, but New York drivers characteristically went around it. Then, as the security stood in the street, Romney emerged from the townhouse, “looking tall and neat.” He took off his suit jacket and climbed into the SUV. 

The event marks a rather controversial departure for the Romney campaign. Although both Romney and his super PAC have accepted donations from Paulson, this ratchets up the association between the presumptive GOP nominee and the controversial Wall Street billionaire. Lis Smith, a spokesman for the Obama campaign, did take advantage of the connection to take a whack at Romney, stating, “It’s not surprising that the people who profited the most from the economic crisis want to elect Mitt Romney. Then again, Paulson is a nice checkbook to get to know in gearing up for a fierce battle this fall. According to the latest numbers from The Center for Responsive Politics, Romney has out-raised President Obama by a four to one margin among donors in hedge funds and private equity. Romney's campaign has raised $2.48 million in this industry while Obama has collected just under $625,000. He would bring back the failed policies—tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and letting Wall Street write its own rules—that created it in the first place.” 

Until Election Day, Romney and Obama will each try to hang the unpopularity of Wall Street on the other—Obama, by attacking Romney as a “vulture capitalist,” just as Rick Perry and Romney will go after Obama on “bailouts.” It’s unclear whether this attack will stick to either one, but by holding a fundraiser at Paulson’s townhouse, Romney made it that much easier for Obama.