Secret Romeny video @ a fundraiser.

During a private fundraiser earlier this year, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney told a small group of wealthy contributors what he truly thinks of all the voters who support President Barack Obama. He dismissed these Americans as freeloaders who pay no taxes, who don't assume responsibility for their lives, and who think government should take care of them.

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what…These are people who pay no income tax.

Romney went on: "[M]y job is is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."

A former C-SPAN scholar, Ilona Nickels, is furious that a McMahon mailer took remarks she made to a newspaper out of context. In a story on Murphy's attendance at committee hearings, Nickels said:
"Every failure to attend can't be chalked up to, he's a lazy SOB. He doesn't want to do his work. He's a slacker. Members are overtaxed."

Nickels, in a letter to the McMahon campaign, has demanded that they "cease and desist using my words in such a blatant out of context and dishonest manner."

Additionally, Brian Lockhart at the Stamford Advocate learned that "experts agreed available evidence does not support" McMahon's bogus claims that Murphy "got a sweetheart deal or engaged in a quid-pro-quo arrangement with the bank" that gave him a home equity line of credit.

Out of context, dishonest, misrepresenting the facts. Sound familiar?

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June 28, 2012

McMahon ‘disappointed’ in health care ruling

LINDA MCMAHON: “It was disappointing. it was kind of a little bit of a bait and switch almost in that —I’m not talking about the supreme court I’m talking about from the government that it will bring down the cost of health care. It will increase the cost of health care. It puts a burden on our middle class it puts a burden on our businesses and our seniors as well.”

LINDA MCMAHON: “It’s just gonna cost across the board, health care, and increase taxes. And I will, if I’m elected in November— when I am elected in November — I will be one of those who will vote to repeal it and replace it with the things that we need.”

September 12, 2012

New numbers reveal how Obamacare is working to help Americans get and keep affordable health insurance.

Linda McMahon, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, on the other hand, have pledged to repeal Obamacare, starting on their very first day in office. They’d leave tens of millions more Americans uninsured and take us back to the days when insurance companies had unchecked power to raise premiums and price millions of families out of the health care market. We can’t afford to go back.

Chris Murphy voted for the Affordable Care Act
Rosa DeLauro voted for the Affordable Care Act

Vote for Chris Murphy and Rosa DeLauro on November 6th

In Connecticut
Under Mitt Romney
1,630,000 middle-class families with children
could face a tax increase of an average of $2000.

Under President Obama
A typical family during President Obama's first term
received a tax savings of $4247.

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In case you haven't seen this yet, The CTPost reported:

The issue concerns Rep. Christopher Murphy's attendance at congressional hearings. In a story in this newspaper that mostly backed up McMahon's numbers, a quote from Ilona Nickels, a former resident scholar for C-SPAN, offered a defense. The full quote reads: "Every failure to attend can't be chalked up to, he's a lazy SOB. He doesn't want to do his work. He's a slacker."

In other words, the numbers by themselves don't prove anything.

Never mind, McMahon's people said. In a recent mailer again highlighting the attendance issue is the highlighted quote: "`He's a slacker' -- CT Post."

A few problems here. One is the quote is wildly out of context, and grossly distorted. In fact the original meaning is the opposite of what McMahon portrays...

This one is nowhere near the truth. And voters need to know it.

The New Haven Register reports:

The wrestling giant, WWE, where Republican U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon was once the chief operating officer, is scrubbing the web of its more racy, misogynistic videos that have fed criticism of the candidate.

McMahon was the president and CEO of WWE from 1997 to September 2009, shortly before she decided to run for the U.S. Senate for the first time, against Richard Blumenthal. The WWE switch from a TV-14 adult rating for performances by its personalities started in 2008.

WWE has been aggressively protecting its brand in this, McMahon’s second run for the office, threatening to sue Chris Powell, managing editor of the Journal Inquirer for his criticism back in February.

Todd Abrajano, spokeswoman for McMahon’s campaign, said neither McMahon nor the campaign asked WWE to do this and he referred other questions on the video to WWE.

WWE is still a McMahon family business and her husband, Vince, is currently president.

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Increased drug costs and higher Medicare premiums. By repealing the Affordable Care Act, the Romney-Ryan plan would raise health care costs in retirement by $11,000 for the average person who is 65 years old today.

Increased long-term care costs, including increased costs for nursing home care, because of cuts to Medicaid. A substantial share of Medicaid spending pays for health care costs for Medicare beneficiaries. The Romney-Ryan Medicaid cuts mean a loss of over $2,500 annually for seniors currently on Medicare who also rely on Medicaid. Unlike the Medicare voucher system that would begin in 2023 the cuts to Medicaid would begin almost immediately.