Spanish speakers given wrong election date with Maricopa voter ID card
October 17, 2012
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by David Safier A story from ABC 15 states the Maricopa Elections Department put out a voter ID document with "8 de Noviembre" listed as the election date. In English, the same document gives the correct date, November 6. The Maricopa County Elections Department mistakenly listed the wrong date of the upcoming general election on … Read more
Dr. Richard Carmona and Sen. Daniel Inouye to host veterans town hall today
October 17, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: A late calendar entry from the Dr. Richard Carmona for U.S. Senate campaign: Carmona and Sen. Inouye to host veterans town hall today Rich Carmona and Sen. Daniel Inouye will host a veterans town hall today at American Legion Post 41 in Phoenix. Both veterans, Carmona and Inouye will address issues pertinent … Read more
Ethan Orr: “I don’t support Prop 204.”
October 16, 2012
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by David Safier We've become so used to wild, blathering conservatives in Arizona that when a smart, well spoken, kinda sensitive guy like Ethan Orr comes along, he sounds like a moderate, no matter what positions he takes. And that's the impression Ethan hopes to leave with Democrats and progressive-leaning Independents. He's The Next Pete … Read more
Women explain how a Romney presidency would threaten their rights
October 16, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Women of all ages explain how a Romney presidency would threaten their their rights, their health, and their equality, in this ad from WeApproveThisMessage.com (Americans for Progress) entitled "Republican attacks on women's rights, Part 1."
Video below the fold.
Fitz posts a “memo” from Ally Miller
October 16, 2012
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by David Safier Issuing a satire alert is always prudent before posting anything from Fitz. On his Fitz Blog, Tucson's premier satirist has posted what he claims is a memo from "Teapublican Ally Miller." Teapublican Ally Miller is running against Nancy Young Wright for the seat of retiring Pima County Supervisor Ann Day. Miller sent … Read more
Ally Miller: Education? Not my job
October 16, 2012
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by David Safier At the Catalina Foothills Candidates' Ed Forum Monday night, Ally Miller was possibly the most eloquent candidate of the bunch, even though she wasn't there. No, I'm not disparaging the candidates who attended, many of whom presented themselves very well. It's just that the reason Ally gave for not attending the forum … Read more
President Clinton explains Romney’s $5 trillion tax cut
October 16, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
The Obama campaign has a new Web video featuring President Bill Clinton arguing that Romney’s tax plan would cut taxes on the rich, and would not pay for itself.
The "Secretary of Explaining Stuff" frames the case against Romney’s tax plan as a battle of values — as “we’re in this together” versus “you’re on your own.”
Video below the fold.
‘Mitt Math’ for his jobs plan gets four Pinnochios from Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler
October 16, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
I have been telling you that "Mitt Math" doesn't add up for months now. Today the Washington Post's fact checker Glenn Kessler exposes the fraud of "Mitt Math" for his jobs plan, awarding him four Pinnochios. Mitt Romney’s ‘new math’ for jobs plan doesn’t add up.
Greg Sargent at The Plum Line discusses Team Obama's reaction. Obama campaign blasts Romney 12 million jobs plan as fraud:
As expected, the Obama campaign is pouncing on today’s Post debunking of Mitt Romney’s claim that his plan would create 12 million jobs. From Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt:
“In yet another instance of Mitt Romney’s campaign not telling the truth, it turns out that the numbers behind his ‘jobs plan’ just don’t add up. For months, Romney has pledged to create 12 million jobs over his first term — a number economists project will be created under current policy — but the numbers he’s cited for his claims aren’t based on evaluations of his plan and are ‘squishy’ at best. Mitt Romney thinks he can run out the clock by not coming clean about policy details, but the American people deserve the truth about his plans. And the truth is that economists have concluded that the severe cuts he would make like education, research and development, manufacturing and infrastructure could eliminate 1 million jobs and shrink economic growth by 1 percent.”
The question now is whether Obama will seize on this new report at tonight’s debate to expose Romney’s jobs plan as a bill of goods during what may prove the highest profile, highest stakes of this election, further elevating the Post’s findings.
By any reasonable measure, this should be a big, big story. Romney’s claim that he will create 12 million jobs is central to his candidacy’s entire argument. It is the whole basis for Romney’s positioning of himself as the alternative to the unacceptable status quo — high (though falling) unemployment, and a too slugginh recovery — under Obama. The question of which candidate’s plans would actually fix the economic crisis is what this whole presidential campaign is supposed to be all about. And we’ve now learned that the studies the Romney campaign itself cites to back up the claim that his plan would create 12 million jobs don’t do anything of the kind.
As Steve Benen puts it, “Romney’s central jobs argument” has been “exposed as fraudulent.” Benen adds: “I don’t seriously expect this to rock the presidential campaign, but it certainly has that potential. The revelation is simply that brutal.”
Yes, it is. Or it should be, anyway.
