Pence Staged Exit.

[Benton]

(10-09-2017, 07:26 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Well we paid tax dollars to get Pence to South Bend to give a commencement speech and those that walked out caused those tax dollars to be wasted. Why don't you care about that?

As to the rest, you have to assume his whole motive was to walk out. Would you have been mad if he left after the first quarter because the game sucked?

"We paid tax dollars to get him there. He needs to suck it up and watch the game"  

To the bold:
That's pretty thin there. Pence wasn't speaking to an empty room. And, even if he had been, I'd be totally good with not spending tax dollars for politicians to deliver those addresses. That's a horrible waste of tax dollars. Find an alum or just a good public speaker instead of passing the cost on to taxpayers.

As to the rest: it appears to have been, from the staged photo to telling the media pool not to leave as they weren't staying. Which makes the rest moot (although, I'll go ahead and toss out there that I don't think taxpayers should be stuck paying for politicians to watch football games; watch it on TV and save taxpayers a few bucks instead of living large off working people).