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Mitt Romney coming to Boro Park

8:35 am  •  25  November 2011

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While Staten Island is getting little Newt Gingrich, Yossi Gestetner reports that the leading Republican presidential candidate is coming to Brooklyn:

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is expected to visit Borough Park Brooklyn in December to meet with a group of wealthy Orthodox Jewish donors to familiarize with them and to discuss issues of concern to the Orthodox Jewish community. But of course, in politics nothing is free: Team Romney is expected to pick up $100,000 in contributions during the “meet.” This is not much money for a presidential candidate who is foreseen by some as the very likely winner of the Republican contest, but $100,000 sure covers the gas and tolls from midtown Manhattan to Boro Brooklyn.

Kings County isn’t a popular destination for national Democrats or Republicans, so it’s relatively interesting.