March 2012
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“One of most humorous I think relates to my father. You may remember my father, George Romney, was president of an automobile company called American Motors … They had a factory in Michigan, and they had a factory in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and another one in Milwaukee, Wisconsin…and as the president of the company he decided to close the factory in Michigan and move all the production to Wisconsin. Now later he decided to run for governor of Michigan and so you can imagine that having closed the factory and moved all the production to Wisconsin was a very sensitive issue to him, for his campaign.”
Romney said he recalled a parade in which the school band marching with his father’s campaign only knew the Wisconsin fight song, not the Michigan song.
“So every time they would start playing ‘On Wisconsin, on Wisconsin,’ my dad’s political people would jump up and down and try to get them to stop, because they didn’t want people in Michigan to be reminded that my dad had moved production to Wisconsin,”
” —said Romney, laughing while recalling his father’s Layoffs (via tpmmedia)
Idaho Senator Apologizes for Rape Remark, Then Suggests Women Get "Rape Test" to Tell Them If They've Been Raped →
rhrealitycheck.org
Wow. This guy. Needs to stop talking. And needs to stop proposing legislation to curb reproductive rights.
Idaho Senator Chuck Winder’s contact info:
“Paul Ryan’s 2013 budget reflects the teachings of Ayn Rand, not Jesus Christ.”
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The non-partisan religious organization Catholics United.
John Nichols has more.
“The crime of killing a black person still is not greater than the crime of being black. And, as one of the family’s attorneys asked, ‘Do we really believe that if Trayvon Martin had pulled the trigger, he would not have been arrested?’”
——Mychal Denzel Smith, Justice for Trayvon Martin
“If we look closely enough, we’ll have to conclude that poverty is not, after all, a cultural aberration or a character flaw. Poverty is a shortage of money.”
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Barbara Ehrenreich on “The Culture of Poverty”
Read her full piece for this week’s issue of The Nation here.
“Romney wanted so badly to close the deal in Alabama and Mississippi that he rendered himself ridiculous with all that talk of grits and “y’alls.” But he did not close any deal. He just confirmed his absurdity. And his inability to beat a washed-up former senator from Pennsylvania and the disgraced former speaker of the US House of Representatives means that he will be performing in the theater of the absurd that the Republican primaries have become for weeks, perhaps months, to come.”
——John Nichols, Gritty Defeats Highlight Romney’s Authenticity Deficit
