From The Roots
Week In Review
Highlights from this week in campaigns...
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10:25 PM Aug 13, 2010 -
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New Ad From Richard Blumenthal
Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal, the Democratic nominee for Senate, is up with a new TV ad in the wake of the GOP primary. Click through to watch it.
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05:45 PM Aug 11, 2010 -
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Mark Kirk's Duplicity
Republican Senate candidate Mark Kirk says he's inclined to vote for a $26 billion jobs bill that Democrats are pushing.
Kirk is a congressman from Chicago's northern suburbs. He was headed back to Washington for Tuesday's vote on the bill, which is expected to keep teachers as well as state and local government workers from losing their jobs.
On Monday, Kirk called the measure deficit neutral and said it would keep teachers in the classroom.
Mark Kirk, August 10, 2010:
Mark Kirk didn’t just lie about being a teacher, he lied about supporting teachers as well.
Fortunately, the jobs bill in question (which Kirk himself admitted would be deficit neutral and save thousands of teachers’ jobs) passed the House today, 247-161, despite Kirk’s duplicity.
Kirk has now ... Read more... Career Washington politician-turned-lobbyist Dan Coats made it clear again that he stands with Wall Street and special interests over working Hoosier families by embracing the much-maligned “Ryan Roadmap”, a radical proposal by Republican Rep. Paul Ryan to privatize Social Security, cut the tax rate on corporations, raise the retirement age to 70, and replace Medicare and Medicaid with private vouchers. Currently 1.1 million Hoosiers receive Social Security benefits, but Coats apparently likes the idea of leaving their retirement funds up to the vagaries of Wall Street – a plan which, had it been enacted prior to the recent financial crisis, would have thrown thousands into poverty. Evidently Dan Coats prefers to line the pockets of Wall Street bankers rather than protect Indiana seniors. Read more... Today the United States Senate voted in favor of a critical, bipartisan bill which will save the jobs of teachers, policemen and firefighters; among teachers alone, the bill will save nearly 140,000 jobs, all while reducing the deficit. Former Wall Street trader Pat Toomey, however, announced today that he would have voted against the bill. The bill will cut $1.4 billion off the deficit by closing foreign tax loopholes for large corporations, and will keep 12,500 Pennsylvanian teachers, policemen and firefighters employed. Yet Pat Toomey is unconcerned about saving the jobs of these hardworking Pennsylvanians. Apparently he prioritizes Wall Street and big business over Pennsylvania. Read more...
09:40 AM Aug 11, 2010 -
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Coats Seeks To Privatize Social Security
06:07 PM Aug 09, 2010 -
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Toomey Opposes Saving Jobs For Teachers, Police, Firefighters
06:10 PM Aug 05, 2010 -
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