It was a slightly awkward moment Monday when GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney pulled out his wallet in front of voters and had trouble finding a bill small enough to give one of his supporters. As he was schmoozing with voters at Brewery Bar, a Mexican restaurant near Denver, Mitt received a $1 bill from a young boy that had been folded origami-style, which he happily accepted, going on to rifle through his wallet looking for something to give in return. Rejecting a single-dollar offer from one of his aides, Romney finally found a five-dollar bill in the bottom of his billfold, which he gave to the boy. “We’ll give you an Abraham Lincoln back,” he said.
Romney was in Colorado as part of his Western state tour to court conservative voters, which he did by addressing more than 250 people at the restaurant before heading to a roundtable with more than a dozen small business owners. In both meetings, Romney attacked President Obama for his economic policies, arguing that regulations are causing uncertainty and hampering small business growth, and that he – with his experience in the private sector – is more qualified to repair the economy. “[You] know, we’ve got a nice group of folks in Washington … They just don’t have experience in the private sector. They don’t know what it takes to create jobs. And I spent my life doing that,” he said.
