Romney to attend high-dollar fundraisers in Arkansas

Submitted by The City Wire Staff on Thu, 08/16/2012 - 6:18pm

story from Talk Business, a TCW content partner

GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney will be in Little Rock on Wednesday, Aug. 22 for a high-dollar private dinner and reception.

According to an invitation sent to prospective contributors and participants, Romney will hold three receptions at the Peabody Hotel on Wednesday afternoon. The price range of the reception fundraisers are $25,000 per couple, $10,000 per couple and $2,500 per person.

Later, a private dinner will be held at the Capital Hotel with a request to contribute or raise $50,000 per couple.

Notable names on the Romney fundraiser invitation include his 3 state finance co-chairs, Warren Stephens, Claiborne Deming and John Tyson.

Also, U.S. Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., and U.S. Reps. Rick Crawford, R-Jonesboro, Tim Griffin, R-Little Rock, and Steve Womack, R-Rogers, will be special guests.

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Other high-profile chairs and co-chairs of the event include Curt Bradbury, George Gleason, Madison Murphy, Lisenne Rockefeller, Tom Schueck, John Allison, John Ed Anthony and French HIll.

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Comments

No AR public appearances for Romney

Submitted by Skeptical (not verified) on Mon, 08/20/2012 - 11:54am.

Romney will make no public appearances during his only visit to Arkansas. The AR republican party chairman says his visit demonstrates how important AR is to Romney. Give me a break, his visit shows how important rich people are to him even if he has to lower himself to come to AR to get their money.

But of course

Submitted by NumberSix on Mon, 08/20/2012 - 3:16pm.

He doesn't want to associate with the common people. They just wouldn't understand a man like him. They just need to do what they are told.

How Many

Submitted by arnold fudpucker on Tue, 08/21/2012 - 3:31pm.

And just how many trips is the democrat presidential candidate making to Arkansas? Hmmmm!

Lower than low?

Submitted by arnold fudpucker on Tue, 08/21/2012 - 3:33pm.

Then by your description the other guy is lower than low! He isn't even trying to make a showing. Let's face it, the demoncrats could not care less about Arkansas.

Let's all end the nonsense

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 08/21/2012 - 10:22pm.

Let's all end the nonsense and agree neither candidate is coming anywhere near the state for one simple reason: the result is a foregone conclusion. Even though the President's policies aren't significantly different than Clinton's and a large swath of this poor state benefit from federal social programs, for whatever reason he'll be lucky to crack 40% of the statewide vote no matter if the opponent were Romney or the zombie corpse of Orval Faubus.

The reason the "common folk"

Submitted by Louis (not verified) on Thu, 08/23/2012 - 12:32am.

The reason the "common folk" were not at the dinner tonight is because the dinner cost 50k. It is not because he doesn't care about them. I was there and many of his comments were about how we could help the lower income help themselves.