Paul Ryan's soup kitchen photo-op wrecks charity organization: Doors may close

[Dennis S]

" And yet again, GOP supporters have reportedly engaged in roughshod behavior by targeting Antal and his soup kitchen with angry phone calls voicing their displeasure over the handling of their candidate's visit. Ryan did not have permission from organization officials to conduct the photo-op.

"This incident mirrors another incident where an establishment received backlash concerning a Republican campaign visit. A Denver restaurant owner and his family received similar backlash and even death threats after they refused to host a campaign stop by Mitt Romney."

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[RgrF]

Saint Vincent De Paul is far too tightly tied to the RC Church to worry they will have to close their doors over a dustup like this.

[Chakravartin]

RgrF wrote:
Saint Vincent De Paul is far too tightly tied to the RC Church to worry they will have to close their doors over a dustup like this.

I don't think that's the case. I've seen some of their shelters and thrift shops closed for lack of funds before.

[Chakravartin]

If Ryan had any class, he'd cop to it as a stupid mistake, tell his supporters to lay off of the harassment and make a big donation as an example.

[$tevie]

I don't understand why people are going to punish the hungry and homeless when they are in fact angry with the director about a political matter. It seems very wrong to me.

[Gutenberg]

We as a nation have become so angry and frazzled that we have forgotten that we have to live with each other. We are all Americans. We need to reach for understanding and compromise. Compromise is an indication of strength, not weakness. The Constitution came out of a long process of negotiation and compromise--which means that our nation was founded on negotiation and compromise. Yet we refuse to talk to each other and have become rigid and intolerant. This can't continue, because it will wreck us.

Who knows what else was happening at that SVdP location--I know of one in my city that people would celebrate if it shut down. It has bullied individual homeowners, steamrollered the zoning board and negotiated in bad faith with a number of homeowners' associations and community groups. The leader is just a bad guy. Don't assume it was just because of Ryan's grandstanding.

[decay]

hard-core conservatives have gone on record that they will not compromise; they will accept nothing other than victory for their causes.

[Gutenberg]

I agree, decay, and it's a problem. If we can wait out the 20 years or so it will take for the Republican Party to split apart, and then create a coalition that excludes the Tea Party strongholds in the Deep South, then we can get this country working again. If we can't, I don't know what will happen. Whatever it is, it won't be good.

[OWC Jamie]

decay wrote:
hard-core conservatives have gone on record that they will not compromise; they will accept nothing other than victory for their causes.

[swampy]

It's always the Republican's fault? The Dems have a perfect track record of bipartisanship and cooperation? Oh, give me a break.