Mitt Romney Campaign Scraps $50,000 Per Plate
Jerusalem Fundraiser On A Jewish Fasting Day


Mitt Romney's presidential campaign has been forced to scrap a $50,000
per plate fundraiser scheduled to take place during his visit to
Jerusalem because the date coincided with a solemn Jewish day of mourning.

The fundraiser, which was supposed to be a "a small meeting, but a big
fund-raiser," according to a source quoted in the Jerusalem Post on
Wednesday, was set to take place on July 29, amid the Romney campaign's
first foreign policy tour.

But July 29 is also Tisha B'Av, a Jewish day of fasting in some
traditions of the religion, in which catastrophic events like the
destruction of the First and Second Temples and the Holocaust are mourned.

Andrea Saul, a spokeswoman for the Romney campaign, pointed to a tweet
by Natasha Mosgovaya, a political correspondent for the Israeli daily
Ha'aretz, that stated on Thursday morning that the campaign would in
fact not be holding the fundraiser. The tweet quoted a Romney official
saying the campaign was "aware of the sensitivity of that date." Saul
declined to comment on whether the fundraiser had been canceled or would
be rescheduled.

Jonny Daniels, a leading Republican political strategist in Israel, told
The Huffington Post that the campaign had been aware of the date of the
holiday when it scheduled the fundraiser. The campaign thought it could
hold the event in a way that would not offend, he said, but was taken by
surprise at the ferocity of the public outcry over the timing.

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Mendacious Mitt...apparently no brighter than George W. Bush.