"The people there that night, they paid $50,000 per person for dinner. You know, I grew up in a blue collar area in Boston and nobody I know can pay, can afford to pay $50,000 for dinner. I don't know anybody that can do that. In a way, I felt like, you know, whether you are a Republican or an independent, there's a lot of people who can't afford to pay $50,000 for one night for dinner. I felt an obligation, in a way, to release it. I felt an obligation for all the people who can't afford to be there. You shouldn't have to be able to afford $50,000 to hear what the candidate actually thinks." -- Scott Prouty, who recorded the infamous "47%" video clip of Mitt Romney in 2012, in an interview 2013-03-13 on the MSNBC television program The Ed Show (link goes to The Rachel Maddow Show, where the interview was also covered, because that was the first hit I found for the quote in a Google search (that show was also where I first heard it)) [emphasis added by me, dglenn]
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