Mitt Romney made the first foray of his presidential campaign into an
impoverished black neighborhood on Thursday. It didn’t exactly go as
planned for the presumptive Republican nominee.
The Washington Post
reports that dozens of West Philadelphia residents shouted “Get out,
Romney, get out!” as the candidate’s logo-emblazoned campaign bus rolled
into town for a meeting at an area charter school, where he was to
discuss his proposal to expand publicly-funded charter schools with
local educators and civic leaders. (The Associated Press has more on his specific policy proposal here.)
Once inside the Universal Bluford Charter School things didn’t get
much better, as local educators and leaders were quick to voice their
concerns with Romney and his policies.
