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Maddow: Romney’s history shows he’s willing to lie about his taxes
Friday night on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow said that presumptive Republican nominee Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) has, if precedent is any guide, given us no reason to take his word on the subject of his refusal to disclose his tax returns. In fact, he has given voters…
Mormons in the spotlight as a faith goes mainstream
Mitt Romney doesn’t want his religion to become a political issue – but there’s no stopping a growing curiosity about it They are calling it the “Mormon moment”. As Mitt Romney, a former Mormon bishop as well as a former governor of Massachusetts, runs for the White House, the transformation…
Paul Ryan tax returns show 15.9% rate in 2010
RIVERHEAD, New York — Mitt Romney’s campaign released the latest two years of tax returns for Paul Ryan, showing his running mate paid a 15.9 percent tax rate in 2010 and a 20 percent rate last year. The policy of releasing two years of tax data dovetails with Romney, whose…
Ryan: Romney’s background is ‘starting up small businesses’
At a campaign event in Glen Allen, Virginia on Friday, Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan said that Mitt Romney, who founded Bain Capital, had proven he knew that small businesses were the backbone of the American economy because he had started “small businesses” himself. “[Mitt Romney] has proven, through…
Axelrod blasts Romney’s ‘penchant for secrecy’
David Axelrod, Obama’s senior campaign strategist, continued to hammer Mitt Romney on Thursday for refusing to release more tax returns. “Gov. Romney’s father, George Romney, set a standard back in the ’60s when he was running for president and he released 12 years of tax returns because he said one…
Romney, Obama campaign spar again over taxes
WASHINGTON — White House hopeful Mitt Romney offered his fullest explanation yet about his tax status Thursday, saying he paid at least 13 percent a year over the past decade, but President Barack Obama’s campaign offered a prompt retort: prove it. Romney, a multimillionaire former investor, has been under assault…
No Ryan poll bounce for Romney: Obama camp
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan as his Republican running mate has done almost nothing to improve his standing in the White House race, President Barack Obama’s campaign charged Thursday. Using independent polling data, the president’s advisors said that Romney had enjoyed barely any post-announcement “bounce” in the…
Romney scolds ‘small minded’ people asking for his tax returns
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Thursday insisted that he had paid more than 13 percent of his income in taxes — or more if donations to the Mormon church are included — over the last 10 years, and accused the people who want to see his returns of…
Devo co-creator: Obama versus Romney is like Coke versus Pepsi
Update: Moments before this story was published, Devo’s official website was suddenly blocked by Google (screenshot), ostensibly for malware. The band’s official Twitter account confirmed to Raw Story that their site had been hacked. —— To Jerry Casale, co-creator of new wave electro-rock group Devo, the 2012 presidential election is…
Romney accidentally tells Cuban exiles he loves vagina
GOP hopeful Mitt Romney on Monday mistakenly told Cuban exiles that he loved vaginas. During a campaign stop at a Miami juice shop owned by convicted cocaine trafficker Reinaldo Bermudez, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate spoke with the hosts of Radio Mambí, a station run by Cuban exiles. “They’re waiting…
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