Mitt Romney told a lie Friday, scaring Ohio’s Jeep workers with a claim that Jeep is shutting down US manufacturing and moving it to China. Now he is doubling down on this lie with a new ad. He is calculating that the lies will scare enough poorly-informed people to vote his way, never mind the [...]
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Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. MORNING MESSAGE: Europe’s Agony Could Be Our Future Under Romney OurFuture.org’s Richard Eskow: “Austerity makes victims pay for other people’s crimes. And [...]
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Right now a company named Sensata is moving equipment out of a factory in Freeport, Ill. and shipping it to a factory in China. Sensata will be laying off all of the American workers, but first they are making the workers train their Chinese replacements. The workers’ last day is the day before our election. [...]
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Having entered the “closing argument” phase of the campaign, President Obama has pivoted to jobs. But as Bill Scher noted, the president’s newly published jobs plan is cribbed from from policies that he’s already proposed. President Obama has always enjoyed the advantage a massive policy gap between him and Romney. President Obama is finally pressing his his [...]
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Way back at the beginning of this summer, an eternity it seems in this exhausting presidential campaign, The College Board launched its Don’t Forget Ed campaign to “get the candidates to prioritize education this election.” The campaign kicked off, according to an article in USA Today, with two installations. The first stunt was to line [...]
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There were fourteen arrests today community supporters of the Sensata workers marched on the facility to demand a meeting with the manager of the plant. Arrested include Rev. Jesse Jackson, Bishop Tavis Grant, Rockford Alderman Victory Bell-Rockford, local community members, and three Sensata workers. Labor union representatives from Illinois were also arrested. Local station WIFR.com [...]
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MORNING MESSAGE: Jesse Jackson, 13 Others, Arrested At Sensata OurFuture.org’s Dave Johnson: “There were fourteen arrests today community supporters of the Sensata workers marched on the Bain-owned facility to demand a meeting with the manager of the plant. Arrested include Rev. Jesse Jackson, Bishop Tavis Grant, Rockford Alderman Victory Bell-Rockford, local community members, and three [...]
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“Sometimes the dreamers are the only realists” Sen. Paul Wellstone 10 years ago today, a phone call brought the unimaginable news: Paul Wellstone, his wife Sheila, his daughter Marcia, three staff aides and two pilots had died in a plane crash in northern Minnesota. Paul, the source of energy, joy, inspiration was gone. Along with [...]
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So, the president gave an off the record interview to the Des Moines Register in which he discussed the Grand Bargain. (The paper apparently pitched a fit after the fact and the campaign agreed to allow it to be published.) Q: Mr. President, we know that John Boehner and the House Republicans have not been [...]
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There were fourteen arrests today community supporters of the Sensata workers marched on the facility to demand a meeting with the manager of the plant. Arrested include Rev. Jesse Jackson, Bishop Tavis Grant, Rockford Alderman Victory Bell-Rockford, local community members, and three Sensata workers. Labor union representatives from Illinois were also arrested. Local station WIFR.com [...]
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