There's someone on the GOP convention speaker's list that literally no one has ever heard of.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Seriously, WTF is Andy Wist? Even Google won't give you a clue.

http://www.vox.com/2016/7/14/12187344/trump-convention-speakers-rnc

If you know who this person is, please let us know!
Andy Wist, whose only Google results reflect that he is, in fact, on the RNC’s speakers’ list.

Ladies and gentlemen, the 2016 Republican Vice Presidential Nominee Andy Wist!

[Sanity Claws]

1. Typo for "And Wish"

They wish they had someone else to add the speaker's list.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. Maybe he's related to John Miller and John Barron. nt

[C_U_L8R]

3. That was my thought too. It's Donny in disguise.

[1StrongBlackMan]

9. LOL ... "And he wished" ...

the person writing the name down, just heard it wrong.

[ContinentalOp]

4. Please let it be the long rumored return of Andy Kaufman!

[Exilednight]

5. C-Pac

[SummerSnow]

6. I know who Andy Wist is.

He is the guy who Trump sent to Hawaii to get all the goods on Obama's birth certificate. He just got back after several years with all the information.lol

[Motown_Johnny]

7. Linkedin.com has an andy wist

As a defense contractor with Northrop Grumman Aerospace.

That is my best guess.

[whistler162]

8. He used to be Andy Wit but that was in

the past.

Look up the meaning of wist.

[hatrack]

10. Bass player for the Dixie Dregs?

Oh, wait, that was Andy West.

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Sorry!

[madinmaryland]

11. It's West , not Wist. tRump's short fingers could not reach the "E" key. nt

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. Mystery solved, I guess.

https://www.facebook.com/StandardWP/?fref=nf


It's some New York based waterproofing contractor whose wife volunteers at a Trump phone bank.

Damn, if that's what gets you onto the stage at the Republican National Convention, that's just pathetic.

"Hey look....it's some random guy who's married to a campaign volunteer! He's perfect!"

[Motown_Johnny]

14. Founder and CEO = Small Business success story.

I think we can write that speech ourselves.

[Mendocino]

13. Somebody with a lisp

trying to say Angies List?

Joe the plumbers neighbor?

Trumps caddy?

[csziggy]

15. He's Trump's Joe the Plumber

Or maybe he's one small subcontractor that Trump actually paid in full and on time?

As it turns out, Wist is the president of a waterproofing company in the Bronx. An employee of Standard Waterproofing indicated that Wist would be attending the convention and would be speaking there. "All I'm allowed to say is that he will be talking at the Republican National Convention, that's it," she told me by phone.

At the time of his wedding in 1988, Wist was also the president of the Wist Development Corporation, headquartered in Manhattan. This was the era when Donald Trump was the celebrity king of Manhattan real estate development, of course, suggesting one way the two might know each other. Wist still owns at least one property in in the city, on East 58th Street.

Wist doesn't have a long track record of involvement in politics. In 2002 he donated $500 to the unsuccessful congressional campaign of Gerald Cardinale, a Republican politician from New Jersey who now serves in that state's senate.

As of writing, Wist himself has not replied to requests for comment about how, specifically, he knows Trump or what the subject of his speech might be. We'll update this article once we learn more.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/14/who-is-andrew-wist-the-mystery-man-speaking-at-the-republican-convention/

[lindysalsagal]

16. I've heard it's all in the wist.

not exactly a ball-player, I'm just sayin'.

[rug]

17. Kanye West!

[roamer65]

18. Lawrence King?