Compassionate Conservatism, Indeed: Paul Ryan Causes Charity to Lose Funding

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/soup-kitchen-ryan-photo-op-losing-donors-203033279--election.html

When Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan rinsed a few dishes in the back of a soup kitchen in Youngstown, Ohio, he couldn't have known the photo op would still be a story almost a week later. It is, but not for anything positive.

According to The Huffington Post, the Mahoning County St. Vincent De Paul Society is losing donors as a result of the photo. "It appears to be a substantial amount," charity president Brian Antal told the Post. "You can rest assured there has been a substantial backlash." Antal declined to mention specific numbers, citing privacy concerns.

For those who haven't been following, er, soup kitchen-gate, here's what happened. Rep. Ryan stopped by on Saturday morning and offered to wash a few dishes. However, according to Antal, the Ryan camp wasn't exactly invited.

"We are apolitical because the majority of our funding is from private donations," Antal told The Washington Post. "It's strictly in our bylaws not to do it. They showed up there, and they did not have permission. They got one of the volunteers to open up the doors." Antal also said that "If this was the Democrats, I'd have the same exact problem."

A spokesperson for Ryan told the Washington Post that a staff member reached out to the charity before stopping by and was told that "it would be fine for the congressman to stop by."

 

Ha, ha you can blame this on liberal Democrats who are so mean-spirited that they would cut off donations to a charity because they don't like a Republican candidate who showed up there for a five minute photo op.

This makes your side look bad, not ours.

 

It makes both sides look pretty bad. Well it makes the Paul Ryan camp and Democrat partisans look pretty bad, not all Republicans.

 

he speaks the truth, any business that takes one side or the other is asking to lose half their customer base... it's not smart business... I respect what he says as it is the truth

never mix political or religious business with your company business... they do not mix well
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A Major drop in funding in less than a week....yeah....lol....
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