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Below are quotes from guests at a recent Romney fundraiser held at a posh Hamptons resort, proving F. Scott Fitzgerald's assertion "The rich aren't like you and I."
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A woman in a blue chiffon dress poked her head out of a black Range Rover
here on Sunday afternoon and yelled to an aide to Mitt Romney. "Is there a
V.I.P. entrance? We are V.I.P." ....
A few cars back, Ted Conklin, the owner of the American Hotel in Sag Harbor,
long a favorite of the Hamptons' well-off and well-known, could barely contain
his displeasure with Mr. Obama. "He is a socialist. His idea is find a
problem that doesn't exist and get government to intervene," Mr. Conklin
said from inside a gold Mercedes, as his wife, Carol Simmons, nodded in
agreement.
Ms. Simmons paused to highlight what she said was her husband's generous
spirit. "Tell them who's on your yacht this weekend! Tell him!"
Over Mr. Conklin's objections, Ms. Simmons disclosed that a major executive
from Miramax was on Mr. Conklin's 75-foot yacht, because, she said, there were
no rooms left at the hotel.
The line of Range Rovers, BMWs, Porsche roadsters and one gleaming cherry
red Ferrari began queuing outside of Revlon Chairman Ronald Perelman's estate
off Montauk Highway long before Romney arrived, as campaign aides and staffers
in white polo shirts emblazoned with the logo of Perelman's property -- the
Creeks -- checked off names under tight security.
A New York City donor a few cars back, who also would not give her name,
said Romney needed to do a better job connecting. "I don't think the
common person is getting it," she said from the passenger seat of a Range
Rover stamped with East Hampton beach permits. "Nobody understands why Obama
is hurting them.
"We've got the message," she added. "But my college kid, the
baby sitters, the nails ladies -- everybody who's got the right to vote -- they
don't understand what's going on. I just think if you're lower income -- one,
you're not as educated, two, they don't understand how it works, they don't
understand how the systems work, they don't understand the impact."
A woman in a blue chiffon dress poked her head out of a black Range Rover
here on Sunday afternoon and yelled to an aide to Mitt Romney. "Is there a
V.I.P. entrance? We are V.I.P." ....
A few cars back, Ted Conklin, the owner of the American Hotel in Sag Harbor,
long a favorite of the Hamptons' well-off and well-known, could barely contain
his displeasure with Mr. Obama. "He is a socialist. His idea is find a
problem that doesn't exist and get government to intervene," Mr. Conklin
said from inside a gold Mercedes, as his wife, Carol Simmons, nodded in
agreement.
Ms. Simmons paused to highlight what she said was her husband's generous
spirit. "Tell them who's on your yacht this weekend! Tell him!"
Over Mr. Conklin's objections, Ms. Simmons disclosed that a major executive
from Miramax was on Mr. Conklin's 75-foot yacht, because, she said, there were
no rooms left at the hotel.
