Romney bans small businesses from convention

so much for supporting small businesses. For the first time, small business vendors of political memorabilia have been banned from selling their merchandise. Romney banned the vendors, traditionally small businesses, in order to maximize revenue for is campaign.

"For years at these political conventions, there has been a marketplace set up where merchants sell campaign buttons and all sorts of political memorabilia.
But those vendors are conspicuously absent this week; instead, there is just an official Romney-Ryan store, a monopoly for the campaign.
Californian Robin Abrams from Irvine is selling the wares of Mort Berkowitz, the legendary “button king.” But she has been forced to do it at a hotel 30 miles away from the Tampa convention site, which she said is terrible for business and for the consumer.
“You usually have a great variety of items to purchase. There’s an assortment of jewelry, stuffed animals and salad dressing, everything and anything imaginable,” she said. “But there’s very little of that here.”
Abrams said she found it ironic that a campaign that’s using a “we did build that” theme to hammer President Barack Obama has eliminated competition at its convention, making it harder for small business owners to make a living.

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/0 ... -campaign/

The Democratic Convention? Small businesses are welcomed with open arms.

Dog is not one of the most intelligent posters here.
Soooooo.

Funny, I didn't see Dog proposing ANYTHING for the Democrats convention....or comparing Dems to anything "Republican." What Dog DID do is report a FACT that the Romney/Ryan team eliminated small businesses at their convention...i.e, :

Something the Dog Said wrote: so much for supporting small businesses. For the first time, small business vendors of political memorabilia have been banned from selling their merchandise. Romney banned the vendors, traditionally small businesses, in order to maximize revenue for is campaign.

"For years at these political conventions, there has been a marketplace set up where merchants sell campaign buttons and all sorts of political memorabilia.
But those vendors are conspicuously absent this week; instead, there is just an official Romney-Ryan store, a monopoly for the campaign.
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/0 ... -campaign/

The Democratic Convention? Small businesses are welcomed with open arms.

Facts are a bitch. It would appear that the "lack of intelligence" would fall on the TeaHadists who can't see the facts for the fiction.

Who's surprised? John Gault's a monopolist too.

Martin Ent Inc wrote: Dog is not one of the most intelligent posters here.
Soooooo.

The next time Martin makes an intelligent post will be his first one.

I want to say that this is silly and doesn't affect anything.. but at the same time... really?

Why would the campaign even give us a reason to talk about something like this? This is pretty disappointing.