Archive for August, 2012
David Shuster and Current TV’s Michael Sure break down RNC2012 speaches
Take Action News, David Shuster and Current TV’s Michael Shure share their thoughts on highlights from Wednesday’s speeches at the Republican National Convention.
The CNN Camera Woman Incident
David Shuster, executive editor, Take Action News
(Tampa) — At first I couldn’t believe it.
Around 8:15pm Tuesday night a television camera man I know here in Tampa at the RNC convention arena said there had been an “ugly” and “despicable incident” involving potential delegates at the Republican convention heckling a camera operator working for CNN on or near the floor.
Shuster’s convention notebook: A bad start for USA Today
One of the things I usually love about traveling during an election campaign is the daily hotel room delivery of USA Today. The paper provides the latest political headlines and offers a window into the campaign information most Americans are receiving.
Unfortunately, USA Today has also come to represent a classic and frustrating media failure. The paper, like many others, reports competing arguments from the political campaigns — and avoids reporting which argument is accurate or truthful.
The most dangerous parts of the GOP’s 2012 platform
If you’ve been raped and are trying to terminate your resulting unwanted pregnancy, you aren’t going to find any support or sympathy in the Republican Party platform of 2012.
Likewise, if you are a woman and want to serve our nation in the military, or if you want to visit your same-sex partner in the hospital, or if you feel our government shouldn’t build an 800-mile-long border fence that independent experts say would “waste money,” the GOP 2012 platform is not pleasing.
Final Language GOP Platform 2012
Posted: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 11:25 AM
update: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 4:50 pm – Platform has been ratified
Final-Language-GOP-Platform-2012
Barring any changes in the process, read the final-Language-GOP-Platform-2012 document here.
We will update this Post after the official platform vote takes place.
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Dr. D’s Snack Time – keeping track of corporate parties at the political conventions
Interested in learning more about all the private parties at the Republican and Democratic conventions? These parties offer big donors and corporations an under-the-radar way to influence lawmakers and other federal, state and local officials. Well, the Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to government transparency, is shining the light on these parties on its new website: http://politicalpartytime.org/. .
The elections won’t create a new middle ground on health care
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan say President Obama has proposed a $700-billion-plus cut to Medicare, to which Obama’s supporters reply: But those same cuts are in the Paul Ryan budget!
PA State Voters and the Voter ID Law
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Get information on the controversial Voter ID law in Pennsylvania, NOTE: Per the recent PA court decision, although you may be asked to show an ID, you are NOT REQUIRED to present an ID in order to vote. Learn more about the law at VotesPA.com
Romney takes flak over welfare attack on Obama
