To: Mitt Romney, Presumptive Republican Presidential Nominee
From: Occupy Orange County
Re: Please cancel your fundraiser set for Monday morning in Orange County
Governor Romney,
We are asking that you postpone or cancel your fundraiser currently scheduled for 9 a.m. Monday July 23 at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Irvine. We have plans to protest your visit to our county as we did last time you were here to suck up money from our local wealthy conservative , when we put together the well-received "Billionaires for Romney" protest.
We have had a really good protest in store for you this time, but then some fracking privileged 1%er from San Diego decided to show how smart he was, despite having to drop out of his Ph.D. program, by devising an evil genius plan to kill a bunch of people in a movie theater in Colorado.
We find this massacre really depressing and as a result our hearts are not feeling up for protesting. We're in mourning. You say that you are mourning too; if you are, you'll listen to us and make us a deal.
Cancel your flight; cancel your event. At least postpone it while the nation grieves.
Your donors should still be willing to send you the money you want from them, shouldn't they? You can always pose for pictures with them later, win or lose. We have to show up if you show up -- it's our moral responsibility -- but what should be a joyous moment of opposing everything that you stand for now looks like it will become a chore. We don't want to be thinking about politics at a moment like this.
What we want to do is to honor the dead and the wounded by staying away from politics for the next few days. But you, unfortunately, are supporting policies so horrible that we won't be able to do so if you do show up. So please, have some consideration for us. Stay at home. See your wife and your sons. Think through how you really feel about people being able to buy semi-automatic weapons and 6000 rounds of ammunition with no one batting an eyelash. Have some fellow-feeling with other Americans, for once.
Please understand: we will show up if we really have to. We'll be in a foul humor at your forcing us to do so, but we'll do it. We'll be more subdued than we were in Newport Beach, but more intent than ever on exposing you. We'll use the opportunity to ask why you don't seem to have the respect for the everyday people -- not your people, we understand, but still good people -- who were targeted in this terrible slaughter.
It's not particularly hard to make you look passionless, inhumane, and out of touch, Governor, but just this once we'd like you to make it less easy for us to do so. Stay home. Ask your contributors to mail your their checks, if that's what they really want to do. Mourn with the nation, Governor. You do know, don't you, that the nation is still mourning?
You see, we're not yet over last Friday morning's terrible events. Why -- how -- are you?
Sun Jul 22, 2012 at 8:41 AM PT: OOC and OLA have canceled their protest in light of the shootings, regardless of what Romney does.