Guest Post by Mara Zebest
Anthony Weiner has resorted to hiring a company to provide paid crowds at his campaign events to give the illusion of support. Hmmm… seems to be a trend to pay for “faux” support for Democratic ideas (such as Obamacare) as well as Democrat candidates.
Without paid supporters, Weiner might be encountering more conflicts from voters such as the video below (when challenged by a school teacher). There was also a posted video in which Weiner mocked a British newscaster for asking the tough questions, as well as mocking the elderly with the infamous retort, “What are you going to do about it, grandpa?”
The New York Post reports the following:
Anthony Weiner is having such a hard time generating support for his limp campaign that he has resorted to paying a rent-a-crowd firm to provide “supporters” for his events, The Post has learned.
Some of the gung-ho Weiner crowds, including at the Aug. 11 Dominican Day Parade in Manhattan, were really actors who were paid $15 an hour by the California firm Crowds on Demand, according to a source with direct knowledge of the deal.
The source said surrogates for Weiner approached the Santa Monica-based company days after Indiana-native Sydney Leathers came forward to say that Weiner had continued his digital dalliances after resigning from Congress.
The campaign asked the company to have actors seem “like either supporters or people who met him and became supporters as a result of that encounter,” the source said.
“The people would initially be skeptical and then they ask him various questions but would appear then to be convinced by his spiel,” according to the source, who said the campaign used Crowds on Demand “several times.”
Initially, Weiner’s associates asked the company to try and confront hecklers, but the company — fearing liability if there was violence — refused, the source said.
Crowds on Demand had no comment.
Weiner’s camp denied employing the company. […]
Apparently, Weiner can’t get enough of interns — or hold on to them. His campaign sent out a solicitation yesterday for more interns and volunteers even though there are only two weeks left until the Sept. 10 primary.
The ad says Weiner is looking for highly motivated, organized, and energetic people to join the “most exciting campaign of the year.”
Read more here.
