ISSUE: Budget
- Audrey Kubetin
- Apr 4, 2012 at 10:06 am
Romney: Ryan Plan Is Simply ‘Marvelous’
Paul Ryan’s budget plan would cause the gradual demise of the Medicare system and cost 1 million students their Pell grants while preserving tax breaks for oil companies. And Mitt Romney thinks it’s ‘Marvelous’?
- Sam Drzymala
- 9:58 am
Romney: Ryan Plan Is Simply ‘Marvelous’
Paul Ryan’s budget plan would cause the gradual demise of the Medicare system and cost 1 million students their Pell grants while preserving tax breaks for oil companies. And Mitt Romney thinks it’s ‘Marvelous’?
- Sam Drzymala
- Mar 22, 2012 at 4:35 pm
MEMO To Tea Party Express: Have You Actually Seen Sarah Steelman’s Record?
Today the national tea party group, Tea Party Express, announced their support for former Missouri state Treasurer Sarah Steelman. The one thing that this announcement makes clear is that the Tea Party Express has no idea about Steelman’s record. While we think she is certainly the wrong choice for Missouri, we would have thought a number of positions she has taken would immediately disqualify her from consideration by the Tea Party Express as well.
Since the Tea Party Express is obviously too busy shopping for tricorn hats to do their due diligence, American Bridge 21st Century decided to do the research for them.
- Derek Pearce
- Mar 2, 2012 at 1:40 pm
ABC News: EXCLUSIVE: In ’02 Romney Touted D.C. Connections, Federal Funds
On March 2, 2012, ABC News reported:
In a long-forgotten tape from the 2002 Massachusetts governor’s race obtained by ABC News, Mitt Romney is seen touting his Washington connections and his ability to get millions of taxpayer dollars from the federal government.
- Derek Pearce
- Feb 17, 2012 at 2:09 pm
Washington Post: Romney’s Work On Olympics, Mass. Projects Reveals Complex History With Earmarks
On February 16, 2012, the Washington Post reported:
Mitt Romney is escalating his attacks on GOP presidential rival Rick Santorum as a Washington insider who sought more than $1 billion for wasteful projects during his time in the Senate.
But Romney has a complicated relationship with federal funding. As the head of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, he led an aggressive effort to win hundreds of millions of dollars in federal aid for the struggling Winter Games. As governor of Massachusetts, Romney requested millions in federal earmarks for state transportation projects. He once boasted about his prowess at winning taxpayer money.
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MEMO: 12 Things We Could Learn From Previous Romney Tax Returns
ICYMI: With Mitt Romney still refusing to release his pre-2010 returns, we wanted to be sure that you saw our previous memo explaining why it is so important that Mitt Romney release them.
Click through for the 12 questions that Mitt Romney needs to answer by releasing his previous years’ tax returns.
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ICYMI: Romney Profited From Government Handouts
This morning, the Los Angeles Times reported on Mitt Romney’s reliance on tax breaks and government subsidies while working in private equity. The article focuses on Steel Dynamics, the same steel company featured in Romney’s positive ad released just this morning, and all of the government help they received. In fact, Dekalb County was forced to institute a new tax to pay for all of the handouts.
Despite his constant opposition to government interference in the free market, Mitt Romney has a long history of profiting from government handouts. Research after the jump.
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Scott Brown’s Website Steals Childhood Anecdote From… Elizabeth Dole
Sen. Scott Brown may have some explaining to do. It seems a passage from his website detailing the values instilled in him as a young child was stolen essentially word-for-word from former Sen. Elizabeth Dole.
Original research & screenshots after the jump.
