Billboards


Romney for President billboards welcome President Obama to Orlando
Courtesy: Romney for President
Aug. 1, 2012 - Orlando, FL -- Coinciding with President Obama's visit to Orlando on Aug. 2, Romney for President put up billboards around the city continuing the campaign's ongoing crusade off of Obama's "you didn't build that" quote.  Thirteen billboards featuring small business owners greeted the president.

Here is the Romney for President press release:

Florida Small Business Owners Welcome President Obama to Orlando on Billboards With “Mr. President, I Built This.”

Tampa – Thirteen billboards featuring Florida small business owners upset by President Obama’s “you didn’t build that” comments will welcome President Obama to town on Thursday saying, “Mr. President, I built this”.  The billboards, paid for by the Romney Campaign, show real business owners who are outraged at the president’s economic policies that hurt small business, and about his comments last month that “If you have a business, you didn’t build that.”

“I want the president to know that the hard working, job creating people of Florida deserve better,’ said Tanya L. Burns, owner of the Burns & Associates insurance agency.  “President Obama’s casually expressed disdain for the private sector – just like his economic policies, his failed stimulus, and Obamacare - have made it hard for business owners like me to get by.  Mr. President, I built my business, not the government.” 

“President Obama was not there on my sleepless nights,” said Walter Garcia, owner of WG Express Corp. “Our business relies on the hard work and dedication of my employees and the American spirit of entrepreneurship.  I’m insulted by not only his comments, but by his policies that put government in the way of the private sector.  This business is built by us, Mr. President.”

“When I heard the president say I didn’t build my business, it made me want to throw up,” said Lou Ramos, owner of an information technology and computer training company called Value Enterprise Solutions, Inc.  “The people of Florida deserve better than 8.6% unemployment and a president who thinks government will solve our problems instead of our hard working men and women.  Mr. President, I built this.”

The thirteen billboards went live at midnight Tuesday night and will continue through Thursday in Orlando.