Pacifica's State Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco/San Mateo) issued a statement in response to the Republican Party platform approved this week at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida:
“The Republican Party has adopted a platform that is not only counter to American prosperity, but is counter to the ideals of our nation. They are wrong on issues of tax fairness, marriage equality, voter suppression, gun control, abortion rights, the environment, immigration, health care, and education. It is offensive to allow the rich to get richer while the poor get poorer; to deny individuals the right to marry; to prevent women from having control of their own bodies; to enact laws to suppress the votes of young people and the disadvantaged; to oppose the assault weapon ban; to degrade our environment by drilling off our coast and in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge; to preclude schools from offering family planning education, and to refuse a reasonable path to citizenship. I look forward to next week when the Democratic Party will adopt a platform that helps uplift our society and respects our diversity, as opposed to one that is backward and regressive.”
“The Republican Party has adopted a platform that is not only counter to American prosperity, but is counter to the ideals of our nation. They are wrong on issues of tax fairness, marriage equality, voter suppression, gun control, abortion rights, the environment, immigration, health care, and education. It is offensive to allow the rich to get richer while the poor get poorer; to deny individuals the right to marry; to prevent women from having control of their own bodies; to enact laws to suppress the votes of young people and the disadvantaged; to oppose the assault weapon ban; to degrade our environment by drilling off our coast and in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge; to preclude schools from offering family planning education, and to refuse a reasonable path to citizenship. I look forward to next week when the Democratic Party will adopt a platform that helps uplift our society and respects our diversity, as opposed to one that is backward and regressive.”
Paul Ryan learned everything he *knows* from "greed is good" advocate Ayn Rand. While he attempts to portray himself as a regular everyday person, he is a wealthy ideologue who's not afraid to lie to the public -- as we see in his first major campaign speech.
Paul Ryan's breathtakingly dishonest speech:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/paul-ryans-dishonest-speech/2012/08/30/16bb62d8-f24f-11e1-adc6-87dfa8eff430_blog.html
Mitt Romney is a billionaire who architected a law to protect hedge fund earnings -- something only the ultra rich can use (because they have enough money to put into such funds). He has no problems with American corporations headquartering offshore to avoid taxes.
Why won't Mitt Romney release his taxes?
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/08/16/700611/romney-seve-tax-return-questions/
What did Mitt Romney take from Bain and Co. -- a company that did not provide many jobs, but did provide great protection for those with huge capital investments?
http://gawker.com/5939260/mitt-romney-looted-a-dying-company-for-executive-bonuses-while-it-owed-taxpayers-millions
Both men want to abolish Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Both men clearly hate women as they want them to have babies even when raped, and do not want to give women the ability to control their own reproductive status. Which makes one wonder, why don't they keep having babies -- is it possible their own wives are using contraception?
Posted by: Jay Bird | September 01, 2012 at 03:54 PM