Dick Cheney to Help Raise Money for Romney in Texas
Former Vice President Dick Cheney will visit Texas next week to raise money for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who has already pulled in more than $20 million in the state for his campaign.
There are at least two events scheduled on Oct. 25. One, in Austin, will be held at the home of Austin lobbyists Jay and Sabrina Brown. There’s also one being held the same day in Dallas at the Frontiers of Flight Museum at Love Field in Dallas, according to a report in The Dallas Morning News.
Cheney will be joined at both events by Romney ...
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Stanley Moore via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Two supporters of war who refuse to take part.
Jalapeño Schwartz via Texas Tribune on Facebook
What's Dick going to do? Blow up another building?
Samdavis
Difference between Darth Vadar and Dick Cheney? Vadar didn't take 5 deferments to stay out of the service.
Mike Precker via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Deficits don't matter!
Amanda Winters via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Mitt Romney Encouraged Business Owners To Advise Employees How To Vote
*comment from Amanda==how un-American is this? Why don't the employees have the sense to make their own decisions and/or not to be threatened if they exercise their democratic rights.....SO CLASSIST!
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In a June conference call hosted by the conservative-leaning National Federation of Independent Businesses, Mitt Romney encouraged business owners to let their employees know which candidate they support and how the election's outcome will affect their business.
During a telephone town hall with small-business owners, first reported by In These Times, Romney said President Barack Obama's policies have hurt employers, criticizing the president on trade, labor, and his signature health care law.
"It's an anti-business, anti-job agenda," Romney said.
At the end of the call, Romney urged business owners to relay their thoughts on the election to their employees.
"I hope you make it very clear to your employees what you believe is in the best interest of your enterprise and therefore their job and their future in the upcoming elections," Romney said. "And whether you agree with me or you agree with President Obama, or whatever your political view, I hope, I hope you pass those along to your employees."
He continued: "Nothing illegal about you talking to your employees about what you believe is best for the business, because I think that will figure into their election decision, their voting decision, and of course doing that with your family and your kids as well. I particularly think our young kids ... they need to understand that American runs on a strong and vibrant business and we need businesses growing and thriving this country."
Romney is correct that such behavior is not illegal. After the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, which greatly expanded corporations and unions' political speech, employers can legally compel workers to participate in political campaigns.
However, the practice is often controversial. Westgate Resorts CEO David Siegel gained national attention when he emailed his employees to argue that Obama's policies would "threaten" their jobs.
"If any new taxes are levied on me, or my company, as our current President plans, I will have no choice but to reduce the size of this company," Siegel wrote, urging his workers to instead vote for Romney.
Arthur Allen, CEO of ASG Software Solutions, made a similar plea in a pro-Romney email leaked last week.
"If we fail as a nation to make the right choice on November 6th, and we lose our independence as a company, I don’t want to hear any complaints regarding the fallout that will most likely come," Allen wrote.
*Article Link:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/17/mitt-romney-employees-voting_n_1975636.html
Amanda Winters via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The Bushies are Back & They're Working for Romney: Condoleezza Rice has had quite a summer. First, she delivered such a powerful address to a campaign retreat for Mitt Romney that she stirred up veepstakes buzz. Next, she became one of the first two women admitted to the Augusta National Golf Club. And this past week, she delivered a show-stopping speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, outshining the other speakers, triggering standing ovations, and leaving journalists and commentators on the left and right tripping over themselves to praise her dignity and thoughtfulness.
Not bad for one of the marquee names of an administration that left office with a deeply damaged reputation, particularly on foreign policy.
The rehabilitation of Rice is just part of a broader restoration of the Bush brand and of those who worked with our 43rd president. Fewer than four years after George W. Bush left office, his team members are back in high places, their reputation is being reconsidered, and the Bush name is regaining its old luster and then some.
Among those joining Rice at Romney’s June retreat for top donors were former top Bush administration officials such as Karl Rove, who also addressed the 800 attendees; former homeland security czar Michael Chertoff; former Florida governor Jeb Bush; and even luminaries from the George H.W. Bush administration such as former secretary of state James Baker III. Jeb Bush was also a GOP convention headliner, delivering a well-received speech on education.
Particularly striking is the degree to which Bush 43 foreign policy players have assumed leading roles in shaping policy for Romney. John Bolton, Bush’s U.N. ambassador and an especially combative member of the neoconservative contingent so closely linked with that administration, has been part of Romney’s inner circle throughout the year.
Cofer Black, a former top executive at the Bush-era security contractor once called Blackwater, is a top adviser to Romney on intelligence issues, shaping his views on subjects such as interrogations of terrorism suspects. And Dan Senor, who was a top official in the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq in the year after the invasion, is now at the right hand of vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan. Senor was also cited as one of the influential thinkers behind some of Romney’s controversial comments during his trip to Israel, when he said the innate superiority of Israeli culture is one reason the Israelis are doing better economically than the Palestinians.
Barack Obama was swept into the presidency four years ago in part because of his explicit rejection of Bush’s policies. The Bush vision of an America unhesitant to impose its will with or without international support had cost the country too much in lives, resources and international standing, and the neocons and other top Bush figures had fallen into disrepute, perhaps never to be heard from again. But now they’re out of the wilderness — and finding homes in the Romney campaign.
By facilitating the reconsideration of the Bush legacy, the Republican nominee may also be inviting some of the feuds that characterized Bush’s foreign policy team. Other Bush alums who are advising or quietly consulting with the campaign could become rivals to the neocons because they offer more moderate or “realist” views. This group, led by Romney’s national security transition leader, Robert Zoellick — who was deputy secretary of stateand later head of the World Bank — includes people such as former CIA director Michael Hayden and Rice, a former protege of Brent Scowcroft, who served as national security adviser to the first President Bush.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-bushies-are-back-and-playing-for-team-romney/2012/08/31/b27357c8-f2de-11e1-a612-3cfc842a6d89_story.html
Wilkins Micawber
This story immediately made me think of that Mexican priest who said it didn't matter that the church was taking money from drug dealers; the money was consecrated by the act of accepting it.
Rmoney is just about as principled.
Cheney should be in Fort Leavenworth.
Leon Drozd
What fear or need drives these "birds of a feather?" Are these people donating money that was earned the old fashioned way --- by earning it? Some smart graduate student should conduct a study of the people who would donate in response to someone like Cheney -- and a Romney, for that matter.
It is a delight to see these folks open their checkbooks. Maybe they will double their contributions so they will be loved twice as much. For those in media and advertising, times are good! This is the American Way in 2012!
JC DemocratofTejas
better carry the defibulator. who cares what cheney does. just another wasted space.
John Carhart via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Just don't let Dick get near a shotgun or listen to his advice on invading a foreign country, like Iran!