Romney to campaign in Salem on Tuesday
Mitt Romney (AP photo)
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will make a campaign stop in Salem on Tuesday, according to Roanoke Valley GOP officials.
Romney will appear at Carter Machinery on Lynchburg Turnpike. The vent will begin at noon and doors will open at 10 a.m., according to an email invitation circulated by state Sen. Ralph Smith, R-Roanoke County. Romney’s campaign has not released details about the event. TO RSVP for the event, call 757-279-8253.
It will be the first campaign appearance in the Roanoke Valley by either major-party presidential candidate. Romney delivered the commencement address at Liberty University in Lynchburg last month. President Barack Obama came to Richmond in May for the symbolic kickoff of his re-election campaign, but he has not been to the western part of the state. Obama’s campaign opened an office in Blacksburg today, its first in Southwest Virginia.
Both campaigns consider Virginia a critical battleground state in the fall election. Obama won Virginia in 2008, the first time a Democrat won the state’s electoral votes since 1964.
Gov. Bob McDonnell will not attend the Salem event, partly because he’ll be headlining a fundraising luncheon for Romney’s campaign in Washington the same day, McDonnell spokesman Tucker Martin said.
– Michael Sluss
June 23, 2012 - 7:42 PM
Anybody else wonder if Romney will spend most of the event urging the employees to work harder lest they be fired and their jobs sent overseas?
He should eat at the burger king in salem and then dophoto ops at the duck pond across the street.
No no no Rob Collins – don’t you know Chic-Fil-A is where it’s at right now?
Wherever Romney eats, he will pay for his food. Obama would probably run out, sticking the business owner with the check!! Just like he has stuck the taxpayers with $5 trillion more in debt!!
At least four hours wasted to hear a short canned stump speech? I don’t think so — and that goes for ANY candidate.
What if there was a election,a couple of Billions spent on advertising and no one voted? The choices don’t look very good and our future is on the line. Like the Reagans said before JUST SAY NO! As far as the meal he’s welcome to eat lunch with us. Mitt just call for the address.
@Michael Sluss – do you know if the campaign pays for all security costs or does state police or local govs pick up the costs?
#4 Please show all your examples of Obama sticking unwilling restaurant owners with the tab, Bluemax.
That’s what I thought.
You couldn’t pay me to go. He’s such a joke.
Couldn’t pay me to go see this guy speak….it took 8 years to create the mess it’s going to take more then 4 to get out of it.
sorry for your commenets. however george h.w.and georgew. bush along with dick cheney were the culprots that put us in a hole!, romney will do the same, griffth is no better, notr is anyother repun=blican, ask romney why he has all of his millions in switzerland, and the cayman islands, to avoid paying taxes, and griffth is taking it all in because he is a just like romney, hide my money because i don’t want to pay taxes. i would rathe have PRESIDENT OBAMA than all the republins out there! i voted for george h.w. bush, and what happened we ended up in kuwait because bush wouldnot pay saddam, the his son said saddam had weapons of mass destruction. well folks he didnot have those weapons, and look at all of the american men and women who were killed because of a republican! romney will lose.yea