Giuliani campaign snubs farmers: "You aren’t worth a million dollars"
They made phone calls, got their local their sheriff and fire department involved - the Olin school even planned to let students out early so they could attend the rally. According to her husband Jerry, "Deb even went around and personally invited people.”
Accommodations were made to handle extra traffic around the farm, and the family brought in bleachers to seat the crowd of 75-100 town people they expected to attend the rally. Deb’s mother, sister and niece even arranged to fly to Iowa from Texas to meet Giuliani in person.
On Tuesday, the couple received a phone call from the Giuliani campaign asking about their personal assets. When they replied that their assets basically included their 80 acre farm and their cattle, a spokesman from the Giuliani campaign replied: "I'm sorry, you aren't worth a million dollars and he is campaigning on the Death Tax right now."
And with that, the campaign unceremoniously canceled the event - leaving the couple, and the entire town of Olin, hanging in the breeze.
Way to alienate an entire town with one phone call.
“It’s really sad that we aren’t good enough because we aren’t millionaires,”Jerry VonSprecken told reporter Michelle Phillips, of the Anamosa Journal- Eureka.
“This is a horrible retraction we’re having to make. I’m in a state of shock, very hurt and embarrassed. I don’t understand why they don't want to talk to normal people,” his wife Debra added.
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