Ann Romney quietly slips in and out of Nebraska

By   /   September 21, 2012  /   11 Comments

By Deena Winter | Nebraska Watchdog

Mitt Romney’s wife, Ann, was in Nebraska today, but there wasn’t much news coverage of her visit because her press interviews were cancelled.

Mitt and Ann Romney

Ann Romney was in La Vista for a $250-per-plate fundraiser at the Embassy Suites – but the event was closed to the press.

Ann Romney made a public appearance and did press while she was in Iowa on Thursday, including an interview with Radio Iowa in which she said fellow Republicans and “the chattering class” should stop criticizing her husband and realize how lucky they are to have him as the Republican nominee.

“Stop it. This is hard. You want to try it? Get in the ring,” she said. “This is hard and, you know, it’s an important thing that we’re doing right now and it’s an important election and it is time for all Americans to realize how significant this election is and how lucky we are to have someone with Mitt’s qualifications and experience and know-how to be able to have the opportunity to run this country.”

So why – 46 days before the election – didn’t Ann Romney make any public appearances or do any press in Nebraska? After all, Obama won the Seconnd Congressional District (Omaha and some suburbs) four years ago, and in a tight race, that one electoral vote could be pivotal.

Shawn McCoy, a Romney campaign spokesman, declined to comment on why Ann Romney kept a low-profile in Nebraska.

The Romneys have had a tough week, after a secretly-recorded video was released Monday showing Mitt Romney saying he’s not going to try to win over 47 percent of Americans who are on government assistance and don’t pay income taxes.

Asked what she thought of Romney’s statements, U.S. Senate candidate Deb Fischer‘s spokesman, Daniel Keylin, released the following statement:

“Senator Fischer has her own perspective. When she travels the state, Nebraskans tell her they want a vibrant economy that provides opportunities for them and their children. To make that a reality, Sen. Fischer has released a plan that will help create jobs, spur economic growth and preserve the American Dream for future generations. She also understands the necessity of having a safety net for Americans who need assistance during difficult times.”

Chairman-elect of the Nebraska Democratic Party, Vince Powers, said of the visit, “Ann Romney seems to be a great person. I’m glad she could come to Omaha and see what a great job Mayor Suttle has done.” Suttle is a Democrat.

So far President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama have no campaign appearances scheduled in Nebraska, although Michelle Obama made a stop in Omaha earlier this summer.

As for whether either of them might show up in Nebraska over the next 46 days, Powers said, “Who knows what’s going to happen?”

 

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  • Jason3

    Mrs Romney probably was busy having to get back and ride one of her $100,000 horses….most likely up hill and against the wind….what a country…

  • Sam

    Way to answer the question, Keyline.

  • Hal

    Ditto, Sam— I wonder if Keyline’s statement was pre-recorded, or just read from the script. For that matter, Fischer’s not wandered far from script, either. Early on, I really thought she truly might be an exciting independent voice—but once she bowed before Grover Nordquist(sp?) and signed his pledge, I knew she was just another puppet on the string.

  • Roger Yant

    I suppose that it’s OK for Michelle my Bell Obama to wear $6000 outfits and $750 shoes. Why do you people hate people with money. So she has a $100,000 horse, I believe the Romney’s made that money over the last 40 years, do you think it came over night? It’s OK for Michelle and Barack to fly all over the world on vacations using the tax payers money, and for Barack (Barry) to play 104 rounds of golf, not have a budget in 4 years, set the economy on it’s ears with all the regulations on energy, gas has gone up 107% in his four years, home prices have dropped in places over 50% and he lies ever time he opens his mouth. And yes he has made the world much safer hasen’t he? Oh my yes, can you feel your freedoms slipping away? They are, and so many of you are to stupid to notice it, when it’s gone you will ask what happened, and your still not smart enough to figure that out. I sign my real name while the rest of you cowards use non-de-plums.

  • Watching_From_Lincoln

    Dilbit Deb is just a Koch sucker!

  • Watching_From_Lincoln

    No Roger, you moron. It started with Willard’s multi-million dollar trust fund daddy set up that he and Ann lived off of in college, the ten million daddy gave him to start Bain Capital, and the $225M that Willard has stashed off-shore to avoid taxes wasn’t “earned” – it is blood money from putting 13,000 hard working Americans out of work, out-sourcing jobs over seas to China and leveraging companies to death to rape every dollar out of them and then parting them out like a ’75 Chevy!

    No, Roger, we don’t hate people with money, we hate people with money who got it by f*cking over other people and causing extreme misery and hardship in their lives to steal it from them, then flaunt that money in front of them. Understand?

    President and Mrs. Obama do nothing more than any other President before them, in fact Bush the Lesser (the Idiot Son) spent MORE time AWAY from the White House on vacation than ANY other President (not that when he was in D.C. he had a clue what was going on) and many other Presidents, mainly Republican (like Eisenhower) played FAR more golf than President Obama, and 104 rounds of golf over three and a half years is barely over ONE ROUND A MONTH (do the math without take off your shoes and socks to use your toes, Roger)!

    Oh, and by the way you imbecile, gas has gone up in President Obama’s four years because we were in a GLOBAL RECESSION when he took office and priced had PLUMMETED because DEMAND had EVAPORATED! Under Bush the Lesser, just before his economic bubble burst, gas was over $4.50/gallon in most of the U.S, MAINLY DUE TO UNREGULATED SPECULATION ON THE CRUDE OIL MARKET! The reason it has gone up is because we are IN AN ECONOMIC RECOVERY AND DEMAND IS BACK UP, COUPLED WITH STILL-UNREGULATED MARKET SPECULATION BY THE SAME FUTURES TRADERS THAT HELPED CRASH THE ECONOMY IN THE FIRST PLACE!!

    WHAT regulations on energy? We are at a three decade HIGH in DOMESTIC PRODUCTION, DIMWIT!

    Home prices TANKED in the collapse of ’07-’08 BEFORE President Obama took office, as a result of the FAILED Bush Economic Policies, prices have been recovering since July ’09 nation-wide according to the National Realtors. Wrong Again Roger at his best once more!

    The ONLY people I hear lie EVERY time they open their mouth are Romney and Ryan, it was GREAT to see the elderly people at the AARP convention boo Paul Ryan when he started lying about what the ACA will do to “screw” them and what his plan will do to “help” them, on CNN today! You just can’t fool a bunch of intelligent, informed retired people, no matter how much Lyan and Rmoney try!

    Yes, President Obama has made the World much, much safer! Osama Bin Laden is DEAD! Al Qaida’s command structure has been pretty much eliminated globally by precise operations. President Obama did it in TWO YEARS! Bush the Lesser had seven years, two wars, 4,500 American soldiers dead, 15,000 wounded and $10 TRILLION in debt and couldn’t do it because he was the President with Adult Attention Deficit Disorder and couldn’t stay focused on the mission at hand: Rid Afghanistan of the Taliban and Al Qaida and get Bin Laden! Score: Obama 17 (Al Qaida bosses), Bush the Lesser 0!

    Freedoms slipping away? You mean the totalitarian post-9/11 laws (like domestic spying and the Department of Homeland Insecurity) emplaced by Darth Cheney and Ashcroft? The Police State they turned the U.S. into “for our own protection”?

    I know YOU are the one NOT smart enough to figure that out. You must be suffering either from early onset Alzheimer’s, or WAY too much Faux News and Rush “White Trash Heroin Addict” Limbaugh soaking into what little brain you possess.

    Perhaps there are some of us who use non-de-plums because we don’t want ignorant morons like you showing up at our house late at night with a fire bomb, just like they did at the churches and homes of Civil Rights Leaders in Mississippi in the ’60′s, Roger. You figure out the insinuation?

    The ONLY thing you proved in your post is that you don’t even have the intelligence G-d gave a turnip, or the ability to remember actual facts and events in the order they occurred, your little mind has been so rendered uselessly inoperative by the incessant drone of the echo chamber.

    See ya around on the streets of Lincoln!

    BTW The State Fair’s in Grand Island to stay, GET OVER IT!!!

  • Watching_From_Lincoln

    Ann Rmoney just slipped into town to get some Ricketts cash for the ol’ campaign coffers, then left quickly so the door wouldn’t hit her in the ass on the way out!

  • Watching_From_Lincoln

    More non-answer answers from the campaign without a plan!

  • Watching_From_Lincoln

    And don’t forget the bogus tax deduction for her million dollar a year hobby!

  • L.A.

    Yikes! Looks like Watching from Lincoln is having a bad day or life or both. Sometimes it just doesn’t pay to have Wheaties for breakfast. He managed to call Roger a moron, imbecile, ignorant moron (as opposed to a smart moron) while implying he has the intelligence short of a turnip and so lousy at math he needs to use his toes for counting purposes. Almost makes you not want to even post a comment for fear of setting off a online riot comparable to the 30 countries in the Mideast that exploded with rage the last few weeks, because of this president’s effective foreign policy in keeping the peace. I’m not sure what names are left to be called, but….go Romney! And? Have a nice day.

  • http://twitter.com/GerardHarbison Gerard Harbison

    ” 104 rounds of golf over three and a half years is barely over ONE ROUND A MONTH”

    Math is hard.