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   From: m@l.mal   
      
   Jun 19, 2012   
      
   Anti-Romney Protesters Say They're Paid To Heckle   
      
   DeWitt, Mich. — The protesters popping up at Mitt Romney's rallies   
   throughout Michigan Tuesday look like run-of-the-mill grassroots   
   liberals — they wave signs about "the 99 percent," they chant about   
   the Republican's greed, and they describe themselves as a loosely   
   organized coalition of "concerned citizens."   
      
   They're also getting paid, two of the protesters and an Obama campaign   
   official told BuzzFeed.   
      
   At the candidate's afternoon stop outside a bakery in DeWitt, a group   
   of about 15 protesters stood behind a police barricade, a few of them   
   chanting in support of Obama. Asked why he was protesting, a man   
   dressed in a grim reaper costume pointed a reporter to a pair of   
   "designated representatives" standing in the shade.   
      
   "I can't talk, you gotta get one of those people over there to talk to   
   y'all," he said. "They're the ones who can talk to reporters."   
      
   Neither of the representatives agreed to give their names, but two   
   protesters said they were getting paid to stand outside of the rally,   
   though their wage is unclear: one said she was getting $7.25 per hour,   
   while another man said they were being paid $17 per hour.   
      
   http://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/anti-romney-protesters-say-   
   heyre-paid-to-heckle   
      
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   I guess Democrats really do create jobs.   
      
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