Texas Ellen

Mitt Romney went to a campaign event in Beallsville, Ohio.  And that’s just real nice.

However, now many of the miners said they were forced to attend the rally and had to give up a day’s salary to attend.

The claims have been mostly denied by Rob Moore, Chief Financial Officer of Murray Energy Company, which owns the mine. He acknowledges that workers weren’t paid that day but says no one was made to attend the event. Well, kind of.

“Our managers communicated to our workforce that the attendance at the Romney event was mandatory, but no one was forced to attend,” he told local news radio WWVA, which has received several emails from workers claiming that the company records names of workers that don’t attend those types of events.

Now what was this someone was saying about union thugs?  A union wouldn’t allow that to happen to workers so that’s what makes them thugs, I guess.

DC courts rule that Texas voter ID violates Voting Rights Act.

Alfredo

Whoa!

When Fox News says Paul Ryan’s a liar you know they’ve gone too far:

On the other hand, to anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to facts, Ryan’s speech was an apparent attempt to set the world record for the greatest number of blatant lies and misrepresentations slipped into a single political speech.

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Okay, campers, start listing Paul Ryan’s lies.

Extra points for using the words damn and hell.

TexasEllen

The Democrats in Oklahoma are a hearty lot, used to adversity, and promulgators of a dandy sense of humor. Stolen from their newsletter with love and thanks:

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Alfredo

The author of Arizona’s racist immigration law, former Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce, tried to get re-elected to the Arizona legislature after he was removed from office in a recall vote last year – and fell flat on his face:

The election defeat could spell the end of the political career of Pearce, a national lion in the fight against illegal immigration who was ousted from the Senate last year in a historic recall election.
Worsley, the founder of SkyMall and several other companies, was recruited by moderate Republicans to block Pearce’s attempted comeback. Worsley won the race with 56 percent of the votes, 12,789, to Pearce’s 44 percent, 10,086.

Randy Parraz, an activist who led a recall election against Pearce, said the former political heavyweight’s loss was no surprise.

“This is the same Russell Pearce who said he’d never lose a primary,” Parraz told The Arizona Republic. “He misjudged the fact that he was no longer a conservative Republican — he was an extreme Tea Party Republican. There’s no comeback for Russell Pearce — he’s done.”

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/articles/20120828mesa-gop-legislative-primary-worsley-leads-pearce.html#ixzz24xc9sJPz

No need to worry about Russ Pearce – the Texas Lege is planning to include Pearce’s Mesa, Arizona home in its next attempt to drawn lines for Texas House seats!