Monthly Archives: September 2012

No word yet from the Romney people about press credentials. UM says to ask Univision. They don’t answer their e-mail. I don’t think it’s going to happen.

Meanwhile, I got this notice about a Romney welcoming party:

Are you lazy?  Do you want to be dependent on the government? 

Mitt Romney thinks so.  That is what he told his rich donors last year at a fundraiser.  Today, the man who wants to be President will be at the University of Miami to talk to the 47% of Americans he apparently doesn’t want to worry about.  He will be talking to Univision live.  Will you join us?

 

4:30pm today-UMiami’s Bank United Center Field House

 

Contrary to Gov. Romney’s belief that the 47-percenters think they are victims, we are actually hard-working families who pay their fair share through local, state and payroll taxes. Next door to the Bank United Center at the Field House, the 47-percenters will make sure that Mitt Romey knows that he can’t  write off nearly half of the American population.Will you join us?

 

Protest of Mitt Romney and his backward policies
 4:30 PM Wednesday, September 19
Bank United Center – Field House
1245 Dauer Drive
Coral Gables, FL 33146

Interesting article in The Miami Hurricane, the UM student newspaper: Lottery for Romney, Obama events causes controversy.

Students were originally promised a lottery for a portion of the seats for Mitt Romney’s Univision interview here tomorrow. It seems, though, that all of the very small number of tickets will be distributed by various, mostly friendly, groups. The student journalists were not able to pin down who ordered the change — the Romney campaign or Univision.

On Friday, the Division of Student Affairs sent an email to students who entered the lottery for Gov. Romney’s event on Wednesday, informing them that there would no longer be a lottery to distribute tickets to the event.

The event, as per the Romney campaign’s request, was only open to members of the UM College Republicans and presidents of certain organizations, such as the Federacion de Estudiantes Cubanos (the Federation of Cuban Students, known as FEC) and SpectrUM, the LGBT student organization on campus. FEC, for instance, will receive nine tickets for its entire executive board.

Though the local Romney office and the Florida communications director for the campaign were given the opportunity to comment on the campaign’s decision, they did not respond to phone calls and emails.

Of the 750 total tickets, UM was originally given roughly 400, with 99 percent of those tickets going to students, according to Rudy Fernandez, vice president for government affairs. Student Affairs has been responsible for distributing the tickets according to the rules imposed by each campaign and by Univision, who rented the BankUnited Center Fieldhouse where the events will be held.

The same room is being used for the Obama event, but the Hurricane reports that the student lottery for some of the tickets to that event is still going forward.

Update (9/19/12): Huffington Post has loads more details, and says both campaigns are basically doing the same thing.