ISSUE: Out of Touch
- Sam Drzymala
- May 8, 2012 at 8:42 pm
MEMO: Richard Mourdock’s Extreme Record
To: Interested Parties
From: American Bridge 21st Century
Date: 5/8/2012
RE: Richard Mourdock’s Extreme Record
Let’s be clear about one thing regarding Richard Mourdock’s win over Dick Lugar tonight in the Indiana Republican Senate primary: Richard Mourdock did not win; Dick Lugar lost. Assuredly, Lugar’s precipitous drop in the final weeks was propelled by his stumbles over the residency issue. But Lugar’s vulnerability stemmed from being identified as one of the Tea Party’s top targets of the 2012 election cycle. Lugar will have been felled by the same extreme fringe of the Republican Party that took down several pragmatic Republican candidates in 2010. These extremists found a mouthpiece in State Treasurer Richard Mourdock and are nominating a candidate who is well outside the mainstream of Indiana voters.
- Audrey Kubetin
- Apr 23, 2012 at 10:21 am
Heather Wilson Attacks Anti-Bullying Bill
In this clip, GOP Senate candidate Heather Wilson blasts the Student Non-Discrimination Act (S.B. 555), an anti-LGBTQ bullying bill sponsored by Senator Al Franken (D-MN). Wilson mistakenly argues that Franken’s bill would “criminalize harassment or bullying.”
This footage was filmed by an American Bridge tracker at a Senate debate between Wilson and fellow Republican Greg Sowards at an Otero County GOP meeting on April 12, 2012.
- Sam Drzymala
- Apr 20, 2012 at 9:24 am
Scott Brown: #1 Fan Of The Foxborough Red Sox
Recently Scott Brown’s Senate re-election campaign released a radio ad saying that replacing Fenway Park would have been “a mistake.” But in 2001, Massachusetts State Representative Scott Brown supported moving the Red Sox to Foxborough. Good thing Brown struck out!
- Derek Pearce
- Apr 9, 2012 at 2:51 pm
Columbus Dispatch: Mandel Campaign Endures ‘Rocky Start’
On April 9, 2012, The Columbus Dispatch reported:
Mandel, 34, has endured wince-inducing publicity in his bid to unseat Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, dinged by various media outlets for everything from handing plum state treasurer’s-office jobs to campaign aides to skipping 14 consecutive meetings of a state board he chairs as treasurer.
- 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’?
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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.
