Romney raises more than $1M at end of Israel trip
Romney in Israel: He who pays the piper,
calls the tune. Wearing a yarmulke signals
his submission to the Zionist entity.
More than 40 Republican Party supporters attend breakfast event in Jerusalem, pledge to donate up to $50,000 each to campaign.
US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Monday tapped Jewish-American donors for more than $1 million, ending a trip to Israel that aimed to show he would be a better ally than President Barack Obama. After days in which Romney spoke mostly on foreign policy issues, the fundraiser returned him to more comfortable turf - the state of the US economy, which he sees as the main issue in the Nov. 6 election.
The donations did not come from Israelis but from supporters of the Republican Party who arrived in Jerusalem especially for the breakfast event. The fundraiser attracted more than 40 donors, each pledging to contribute between $25,000 and $50,000 to the Romney campaign. "What we are seeing now are policies that have not worked for the American people, and will not work," Romney said without mentioning Obama, the Democrat he has blamed for failing to substantially reduce US unemployment, now pegged at 8.2%.
This is the first time in history that a US presidential candidate raises money for his election campaign in Israel. It was the second fundraiser of Romney's trip abroad. He picked up $2 million from Americans in London, as the candidates compete for cash for the expected multi-million-dollar burst of political TV ads in the last 100 days of the campaign.