Our aspiring Galtian Overlord made Sheldon Adelson’s casino one of his first trips since being placed on the plutocrats’ ticket.
In keeping with Mr. Adelson’s penchant for staying below the radar, Romney aides refused to say who attended the meeting with Mr. Ryan, though the location (a private room at one of Mr. Adelson’s hotels) and leaks from the Romney camp left little doubt. And in keeping with laws that prohibit elected officials from explicitly asking donors for super PAC money, aides to Mr. Romney insisted before the event that the meeting was not a fund-raiser.
“It’s a finance event, not a fund-raiser,” an aide told reporters. Asked if people were paying to attend, he repeated, “It’s a finance event, not a fund-raiser.”
“It is not dinner; it is cuisine.”
Does anyone else remember a certain vice-president who assured us (seven times in one press conference) that he had committed no campaign finance crime because there was “no controlling legal authority” to enforce the law?
“It’s a finance event, not a fund-raiser” could be the new “no controlling legal authority.”
