Romney and Nevada Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki — a longtime Romney backer — met with the Tylers at their home before Romney took a walking tour of the neighborhood to take stock of the economic devastation that has left one in every five North Vegas homes under water.
"This is a national crisis," Romney told the handful of reporters gathered outside a foreclosed home on North Diazo St. "The tragedy of unemployment statistics, it's not just a number. It's real lives, real people.
"The impact of unemployment is really far greater than just the 14 million people who are out of work," he added. "It's really a tragedy."
Romney took the tour around the neighborhood with the Tylers while talking to them about their personal situation and the economy.
Romney is in Nevada to deliver a foreign policy address on Saturday to the Republican Jewish Coalition, a national organization that is holding its annual conference there.
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At one moment when Mr. Romney was deep into his questions about mortgage and foreclosure problems, his head turned as a woman stopped her blue S.U.V. and rolled down the window.
“I actually voted for you in the last election,” said the woman, Jennifer Fung, who later added that she, like Mr. Romney, was Mormon.
“How much do I owe you?” he joked as he hurried over.
Fifteen minutes later, she circled back around the block and asked for his autograph. He signed a white piece of paper and wrote the date, noting aloud that it was April Fool’s Day. As he stuck his head in the passenger window of her vehicle, he said: “If by some chance I become something someday, that might be worth saving. Otherwise, put it in the circular file.”
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I'm glad to see Romney is out and about in Nevada. I think more and more people are realizing that he the the man to fix the economy
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