What's New Robert L. Park 3 2012

WHAT'S NEW   Robert L Park   Tuesday, 2 October 2012   Washington, DC

THE ROMNEY TAPE: AM I TOO OLD TO ENLIST IN THE CLASS WAR?
I first heard the Romney calculus many years ago in Peru.  A government=20=

official explained to me that: "Most of the population doesn't count; the=
y=20
pay no taxes and receive no government services." There was a revolution.=
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was not at the $50,000-a-plate fundraiser for Romney, held at the=20
multimillion dollar Florida palace of one of his supporters.  "I mean,=20=

there won't be any houses like this if we stay on the road we're on,"=20
Romney told his supporters. Hmm, I think I could live with that. It's the=
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person who surreptitiously taped the event and shared it with the rest of=
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us that I want to know.  Nobody goes to a $50,000-a-plate affair for the=20=

food; it's the connections, which in Romney's case began at Cranbrook=20
School in the affluent Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills, a traditional=20=

private boys preparatory school, with a $300 million endowment.

THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND.
Opinions are the author's and not necessarily shared by the
University of Maryland, but they should be.
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