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flamingdem

(40,916 posts)
Thu Jul 11, 2013, 09:08 PM Jul 2013

Discarded Romney Campaign Swag Now a Huge Hit in African Villages [View all]

An American volunteer for The Orbit Village Project in Kenya, a charitable foundation for orphans and children whose parents cannot care for them, collects clothing, school supplies, and gifts for schoolchildren. Her nephew worked for the Romney campaign and had tons of worthless Romney T-shirts after election day 2012.

The result was the discarded shirts were sent to Kenya, where they’re now a huge hit with kids and some adults, too.



http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42255_Discarded_Romney_Campaign_Swag_Now_a_Huge_Hit_in_African_Villages

Buzzfeed article: more pictures and background story
http://www.buzzfeed.com/bennyjohnson/the-romney-campaign-is-still-going-strong-in-africa

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Heh Heh . . . Kenya fleur-de-lisa Jul 2013 #1
Too rich, isn't it! n/t customerserviceguy Jul 2013 #9
American discards and excess inventory has killed African clothing makers.... msongs Jul 2013 #2
aren't these being given away, not sold ? JI7 Jul 2013 #5
If someone came into your town customerserviceguy Jul 2013 #16
depends on quality of bread, taste, how much money people have etc JI7 Jul 2013 #19
dumping, & it's done with food, clothing, all basic industries, to kill the development of local HiPointDem Jul 2013 #18
Oh my! JustAnotherGen Jul 2013 #3
And cut up they make great rags .... Historic NY Jul 2013 #4
Romney loses and everyone benefits. That's the Universe at work. NightWatcher Jul 2013 #6
Baloney. Bet he took a 20MM dollar tax deduction on that crap elehhhhna Jul 2013 #20
Hahahahahaha Cali_Democrat Jul 2013 #7
This is cute. And funny. CakeGrrl Jul 2013 #8
The puffy shirts! Blue Owl Jul 2013 #10
But I don't want to be a pirate! Initech Jul 2013 #12
Next they'll be trying to pawn off Romney/Ryan muffin stumps Blue Owl Jul 2013 #14
This is a fairly common practice TlalocW Jul 2013 #11
collapsing the clothing manufacturing industries in those countries Liberal_in_LA Jul 2013 #13
lol ellisonz Jul 2013 #15
indeed! flamingdem Jul 2013 #21
I'm glad somebody wants them. Scurrilous Jul 2013 #17
"worthless Romney T-shirts after election day 2012" -- they were worthless before then n/t KurtNYC Jul 2013 #22
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