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Obama Campaign Occupies Romney Event

The Washington Post reports that some “hecklers” disrupted Mitt Romney visit to Philadelphia on Thursday.

By Washington Free Beacon Staff·
Obama Campaign Occupies Romney Event

The Washington Post reports that some "hecklers" disrupted Mitt Romney visit to Philadelphia on Thursday.

Several paragraphs down, we learn more about these protestors:

Romney highlighted his record of education as governor of Massachusetts, when the state’s schools were among the best in the nation in some areas. …

Outside, meanwhile, some brick row houses across from the school were boarded up. Police had cordoned off a full city block to protect Romney and his entourage. Residents, some of them organized by Obama’s campaign, stood on their porches and gathered at a sidewalk corner to shout angrily at Romney. Some held signs saying, "We are the 99%." One man’s placard trumpeted an often-referenced Romney gaffe: "I am not concerned about the very poor."

Obama, meanwhile, attended a number of campaign events on Thursday, including one at a wind turbine manufacturing plant in Iowa, where he urged Congress to continue to subsidize an industry notorious for decapitating endangered birds like the bald eagle.