BOSTON (AP) — Mitt Romney’s campaign had planned an eight-minute, $25,000 fireworks show to celebrate a presidential victory that never materialized.
The fireworks were scheduled to be shot from a barge in Boston Harbor within sight of the Republican’s election night party at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.
Instead, Atlas Professional Fireworks Displays unloaded the pyrotechnics from mortars on the barge and carted them back to company headquarters in Jaffrey, N.H.
A permit filed with the city said the fireworks show could have occurred between 7 p.m. Tuesday, just after the first polls closed, and 12:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Atlas president Stephen Pelkey tells The Boston Globe the show was designed to be “fast-paced” to cap off the evening, heavy on patriotic colors of red, white and blue explosions.
His website also prematurely assumed victory...he had his website display information about his transition into the white house and referring to him as the President-Elect Check out the screenshots here: http://politicalwire.com/archives/20...tion_site.html
And of course he didn't have a concession speech planned whatsoever.
Instead, Atlas Professional Fireworks Displays unloaded the pyrotechnics from mortars on the barge and carted them back to company headquarters in Jaffrey, N.H.