“President Obama’s lawsuit claiming it is for Ohio to allow servicemen and women extended early voting privileges during the state’s early voting period is an outrage.” – Mitt Romney
WHILE SEN. REID continues to confound Republicans on what they can do about his unabashedly brazen charges that Mr. Romney hasn’t paid his taxes for 10 years. He picks up an ally in Minority Leader Pelosi who’s now moved the conversation to “the fact” that Reid was told what he was told. But the Romney campaign itself is busy rewriting the intent of the Obama efforts in Ohio, making mush out of a very important voting issue.
Team Obama hopes to give all voters what the military enjoys, which is laid out in the complaint filed. They want to reverse an Ohio law that doesn’t allow American citizens the same voting rights as the military.
“Ohio election law, as currently enacted by the State of Ohio and administered by Defendant Ohio Secretary of State, arbitrarily eliminates early voting during the three days prior to Election Day for most Ohio voters, a right previously available to all Ohio voters,” the lawsuit states. The Republican-sponsored law ends early in-person voting for non-members of the military three days prior to Election Day this November, eliminating early voting on the Saturday, Sunday and Monday leading up to Nov. 6. – [ABC News]
The sausage making of winning a presidential election.
Mr. Romney is simply not telling the truth on this one. By this one I mean the Ohio charges against Team Obama with voting and veterans, not the other story that has the GOP claiming Reid is lying about Romney.
Until the Democrats are prepared to call Mitt Romney out for the despicable, slimy, low-down liar that he is he will continue to lie. The man is the lowest of the low and not fit to be President. But the Democrats are too damned timid to call him out on his lies.
Well, right now Harry Reid’s having no trouble at all.
Hear Her!! Hear Her!!!
And an added BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! This is just toooo deeeeelish!
Romney has made it easy for Reid to keep shooting. And President Obama is now well positioned to play off of this in future debates and ads. See this is why Team Romney is dumb. You don’t try to avoid your wealth and taxes. You put it out there and turn it into a positive. It’s the secrecy that messes you up. They need to hire me for $1 million (CHEAP) and I’m right the ship. LOL
Harry Reid is too senatorial and does not speak plainly enough.
Where the heck are the Dem PACS?
Hell even the unemployed get taxed on their unemployment insurance benefits. Now is the time to go for the jugular.
I keep hoping to see an ad something like this. A series of vignettes.
You envision the characters looking full-face at the camera.
I’m a teacher, and I paid $2,766 in federal income tax last year.
I’m a fire fighter. I paid $3,280 in federal income tax last year.
I’m unemployed. I was taxed $744 on my unemployment benefits.
I work in a tire store. My husband does too. Between us, our family paid $5,421 in federal income taxes.
I’m an illegal alien. All my grandparents are Mexican, I sent most of my earnings out of the country, and I pay no income taxes. Just like Mitt Romney.
I’m a hedge fund billionaire. (Man in shadows) OF course I don’t pay any taxes, only the little people pay taxes.
Voice Over: Its time for Mitt Romney to stop hiding behind his Republican henchmen and show that he pays his taxes like other hard working American men and women and every Presidential candidate has done before him.
I’d run this ad from now until election day.
I’d LOVE to see that add!!!
Great commentary, Ramsgate! Brilliant!
And, I’m kind of hoping that Romney didn’t pay zero in taxes for however many years. I’m hoping he received tax refunds. Imagine those political ads.
“I’m a soldier and my husband and I recieved a tax refund this year which enabled my family to buy hub caps for our car. Mitt Romney received a tax refund as well and his refund enabled him to buy hub caps for his dozen cars as well as an additonal dozen cars with new hub caps.”
Me too, Sec!
Not to mention the hub caps for the dressage horses!
I love that ad, Ramsgate!
Restricting early voting applies to national guard members and all veterans, The restricted voting laws passed by Republicans in Ohio also eliminates the extension of early voting hours. The board of elections in Ohio consists the three Republicans and two Democrats. They voted to eliminate extended hours for early voting in Democratic counties in Clevelnad and Columbus but permitted the extension of early voting hours in Republican counties. Voter suppression is the only chance the Republicans have in winning Ohio.
Among likely voters Obama leads Romney by the same margin than Obama beat McCain in 2008.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/oh/ohio_romney_vs_obama-1860.html
I find it hard to believe that there’s anything Constitutional in giving special voting privileges to a certain segment of the population, military or otherwise. All citizens should have equal access to the polls.
Since voting on a particular Tuesday, or Absentee Voting, may be especially burdensome for members of the Military, early voting is an important and beneficial policy- but it must be open to EVERYONE. We really don’t want a class of citizens with more voting rights than others, do we?
Meanwhile, in regards to Romney’s tax problems- it’s downright hysterical to hear the right wing scream bloody murder at Reid’s “baseless charges”- these are the people who brought us the Swift Boaters, the Hillary The Murderer stories, the Al Gore Claimed He Invented the Internet stories, etc. etc. ETC. For them to cry now- well, irony and hypocrisy are alive and well, clearly.
Romney refuses to admit that he’s NOT like every other candidate for President- he’s asking us to elect him not on his Executive experience (which he refuses to talk about) but on his success as a businessman. How on Earth can we judge him on his ability to make huge amounts of money according to the rules if he won’t release his tax returns? This “Just Trust Me, And How Dare Anyone Question My Greatness They Must All Be Jealous” schtick simply isn’t going to fly.