Romney Campaign Bars Press From Ryan, Adelson Event

[maddezmom]

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Source: BuzzFeed

LAKEWOOD, Colorado — Presumptive Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan's first major fundraiser will be closed to the press, in apparent violation of the Romney-Ryan campaign's oft-strained agreement with the reporters who cover the campaign.

Days after assuring reporters that Ryan would follow the same rules as Romney when determining which fundraisers would be open to reporters, the campaign has apparently changed their tune.

As of Tuesday morning, reporters would not be permitted to cover Ryan's fundraiser with billionaire mega-donor Sheldon Adelson at The Venetian in Las Vegas tonight. The campaign's agreement with the press is that events not at private residences are to be open to reporters. The campaign has also kept reporters from events where Romney does not deliver formal remarks.

Ryan aides would not comment on the change on the record. Ryan held a fundraiser in Denver on Monday that was closed press because it was at a private home.

Read more: http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/romney-campaign-bars-press-from-ryan-adelson-even

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UPDATE: A Romney aide told reporters that the event in Las Vegas is not a fundraiser but a "finance event," and therefore closed to reporters. The aide would not say what the distinction is between the two, declining to say whether the campaign is collecting checks at the event.
"Nobody paid to come to tonight's event," the aide clarified later, saying it is a "Nevada Finance Leadership Event." The aide would not say who would be in attendance or what criteria were used to determine who would be invited.

[monmouth]

1. Maybe it's time for the reporters to just refuse to cover R&R. That might wake some people up..n/t

[VWolf]

4. Or better yet

if they're not allowed to cover the event, they should just be allowed to make up shit and claim it's true.


Kinda like what Fox News does.

[msongs]

5. as if reporters have any values worth upholding lol nt

[DallasNE]

8. Terms And Conditions

Romney already only gives interviews to Fox News so in a sense hasn't this already happened to a certain degree?

[FirstLight]

2. hmmm...

and we should be surprised because.......?

ya, just more indication of their dirty money of the 1%... they don't want to be photographed having the wealthy whispering in their ear

[bushisanidiot]

3. Hahaha!

Ryan has only been on the ticket 48 hours AND THEY ARE ALREADY RUNNING AWAY FROM THE PRESS!

[DallasNE]

6. That Is A Change?

This looks like the same policy Romney used while on his gaffe filled trip overseas. That time it lead to reporters shouting questions a Romney and in Poland a Romney aide shouted an obsenity back at the reporters. Transparency is an obsenity to Romney, apparently.

[Botany]

7. Sheldon Adelson what is not to love about this man.

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Please can the DUer(s) who are running Romney's campaign come clean and step forward
so we can all thank them.

[maddezmom]

11. he looks like an old mini me

[gkhouston]

9. Hey, if they can't cover the event, why not cover who Adelson is and

how he and other billionaires are pouring megacash into the election?

[barbtries]

10. just another thing to knock them with.

what are they hiding?
palin got away with this shit but i don't think RR will. they're too intransigent with their traveling rodeo.

[Trillo]

12. This is a strategy I've seen my entire life.

About the time that one learns what the rules are, so one can follow those rules and thrive, the government changes the rules. Then, people have to learn the new rules all over again, as their old knowledge has been obsoleted. Learning new rules most often involves punishment and pain.

I think it must be related to republicans keeping their billionaire buddies in business. But, some democrats also seem to be included. Keep the billionaires billionaires.

Maybe that would be a good slogan:

[div style="font-size:3em;"]Romney/Ryan:[br /]Keeping the billionaires billionaires.

[Truthful-Independent]

13. Photo Ops with Bush Cronies are not allowed

The Rom Com group specifically disallows any photo ops with any Bush era cronies. Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that there are individuals (Bush, Cheney, Condi, etc.) which should never be viewed next to Rom.

[Panasonic]

14. The reporters should break through on all RR's event and demand their tax returns

and their entire economic plan, not something they pull from their asses.

[riverwalker]

15. What's at stake in this election

His ideology



versus his

[Ellipsis]

16. Probably because of this NY Times article "Scrutiny for Casino Mogul’s Frontman in China"

When Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate, needed something done in China, he often turned to his company’s “chief Beijing representative,” a mysterious businessman named Yang Saixin.

Mr. Yang arranged meetings for Mr. Adelson with senior Chinese officials; acted as a frontman on several ambitious projects for Mr. Adelson’s company, the Las Vegas Sands Corporation; and intervened on the Sands’s behalf with Chinese regulators. Mr. Yang even had his daughter take Mr. Adelson’s wife, Miriam, shopping when she was in Beijing.

“Adelson and I had a good relationship,” Mr. Yang said in a recent interview in Hong Kong. “He should thank me.”

Mr. Yang joined the Sands in 2007 as the company worked to protect its interests in Macau, where its gambling revenues were mushrooming, and pressed ahead with plans for a resort in mainland China. Boasting of ties to the People’s Liberation Army and China’s security apparatus, Mr. Yang was hired for his guanxi, that mixture of relationships and favors that is critical to opening doors in China, according to former executives.

But today, Mr. Yang, along with tens of millions of dollars in payments the Sands made through him in China, is a focus of a wide-ranging federal investigation into potential bribery of foreign officials and other matters in China and Macau, according to people with direct knowledge of the inquiries.


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/14/us/politics/sheldon-adelsons-dealings-in-china-are-under-investigation.html?_r=1


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[FSogol]

17. They can't show that much ass-kissing on tv.

[DCKit]

23. Do they ass-kiss at Satanic rituals? nt

[Bossy Monkey]

18. Private residences, or if the host looks like a Bond villain n/t

[Scuba]

19. No problem. We already know enough about you guys to know that you're Grade AA Assholes.

[liberal N proud]

20. When will reporters turn on this batch of clowns?

[Justice wanted]

21. Of course you can't show the Kissing of the ring.

[Tx4obama]

22. Kick! n/t

[JoePhilly]

24. Duh ... I mean, who wants to watch Ryan give Sheldon a BJ anyway???