Exclusive: Mitt Romney to Visit Borough Park Brooklyn in December

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Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is expected to visit Borough Park Brooklyn in December to meet with a group of wealthy Orthodox Jewish donors to familiarize with them and to discuss issues of concern to the Orthodox Jewish community. But of course, in politics nothing is free: Team Romney is expected to pick up $100,000 in contributions during the “meet.” This is not much money for a presidential candidate who is foreseen by some as the very likely winner of the Republican contest, but $100,000 sure covers the gas and tolls from midtown Manhattan to Boro Brooklyn…

Romney’s meeting with NY Orthodox Jewish and Hasidic donors is not the first of this election cycle. As
first reported by us the night it took place, a massive fundraiser was held for Romney in Queens in late September where the campaign picked up at least $250,000 according to our report of that night and close to $400,000 according to a report three weeks later in the Forward.

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  • Guest

    jew money

    • Anonymous

      Ron Paul voter.

      • Guest

        yes

        • Anonymous

          Ron Paul voters should reconsider your belief that the Federal Reserve Bank is “secretly owned by foreign billionaires”.

          There are good reasons to criticize the Federal Reserve Bank, but “Jew money” is NOT one of them.

          It takes very little online research to understand You are the direct descendants of the Henry Ford Senior, and Northern Klan, factions of the 1920′s Republican Party.

          A faction that is very damaging to both the Libertarian, and today’s GOP, as credible political parties.

          Might want to carry on your online cyber-war elsewhere.

          I followed a Politico link to this previously unknown-to-me website, which means a lot more people will be reading this than ever before.

  • Anonymous

    Wow, Romney has more courage than I thought possible – visiting the base for Huckabee’s 2008 primary vote.
    Will Romney finally say whether he believes that Ramat Shlomo and Gilo (otherwise known as apartments in North and South Jerusalem built on hillsides previously used for goat grazing) are or are NOT “settlements”? Romney refused to say yes or no on PBS Newshour on Yom Kippur, when no one in Borough Park was watching.

    Next stop: Brighton Beach? Five Towns?

    Anyway, Romney has a month to figure out how to have enough chutzpah to pronounce chutzpah correctly…

    On second thought, Romney should next visit the Irish enclave of Woodlawn, The Bronx. McCain and Hillary territory in 2008. Oops :) Guinness Stout on tap is mandatory in Woodlawn.

    Maybe Morris Park? Some fresh mozzarella and safe on-street parking await.

  • Anonymous

    Borough Park should be 100% mobilized to gain 100% geographic integrity in the New York redistricting for Congress. Being gerrymandered into five CDs has been bad for Borough Park.

  • Big Mitch

    I wrote a recap of Obama’s positions with respect to Israel on my blog, “What we know so far … ” at http://schapira.blogspot.com. It explains why anyone who gives money to Romney is (a) hurting Israel, and (b) otherwise, throwing their money away. Please check it out and leave a comment if you so desire. After shabbos, of course.
    “… and tell ‘em Big Mitch sent ya!”

    • Anonymous

      A word of advice, Big Mitch: your blog conveniently deletes that Obama has turned apartments for Jews in Ramat Shlomo and Gilo into major, public diplomatic rifts with Israel, because Obama decided any square inch of land that is east of the 1949 Armistice line = “illegal settlements”. Obama believes in the post-colonial moral equivalency of the palestinian historical narrative, as does Zakaria.

      Since you are a democrat in Anchorage, Alaska, you should not be giving advice to the citizens of Borough Park, Brooklyn (or any of us in New York) about who is ‘best for Israel’.

      You insult all of us who care about Obama’s failed leadership in both domestic and foreign policy by even suggesting that Israel is our #1 issue. Obama’s 2008 campaign is the only reason that Israel moved into my top five issues, after 35 years of voting.

      • Big Mitch

        First of all, as a Democrat in Anchorage, Alaska, I enjoy the privilege of free speech, and I can give advice to the citizens of Borough Park, or anywhere else in New York, which, by the way is my home town. Ironic that you feel I should not be allowed to give advice, while you have no compunction about giving advice to Israel.

        I will give you the benefit of the doubt and say that you are ignorant, mistaken and/or misinformed when you say that Obama says that every square inch of land east of the pre-’67 armistice line is illegally occupied. After all, I know of no reason why you would intentionally lie. I did not stated that Israel is anyone’s #1 issue. I merely suggested that if such a person exists, he might want to acquaint himself with the facts, a suggestion which you obviously rejected.

        Ramat Shlomo and Gilo were not major, public diplomatic rifts with Israel. They were more like sparrow farts in a windstorm. With respect to Gilo, according to the Jerusalem Post, “The US State Department sufficed with calling the plans counterproductive.’” Ramat Shlomo, now pretty much long-forgotten, has to do with a Shas minister, unbeknownst to Netanyahu, approving a next stage of development, while Biden was in Israel, in an apparent effort to embarrass the veep. As they say in New York, BFD.

        • USNK2

          Ramat Shlomo and Gilo are east of the 1949 Armistice Line, and Obama conflated those Jerusalem apartments with all “illegal settlements”, which is, a VERY BFD to anyone who can read something other than DNC talking points, and a map.

          The only advice I posted here was to Borough Park, Brooklyn, whose 100,000 residents know very well their vote for the U.S. Congress is deliberately diluted by gerrymandering.
          I should know, as a former mapmaker and registered dem in NY17. Once upon a time, the Dem machine in NYC still allowed primaries, where being a registered dem made a difference.

  • Malki

    Romney’s only “Jewish” fundraiser was in Phil Rosen’s office in Manhattan (Weil, Gotshal law firm); the amount raised was between $250 and $400,000