City Council blasts Mitt Romney after 47 percent speech
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City Council blasts Mitt Romney after 47 percent speech
Jan Ransom
Days after Mitt Romney’s 47 percent speech surfaced, City Council today let the Republican presidential nominee have it.
Pulling a quote from former late Texas governor Ann Richards about former president George H.W. Bush, Councilwoman Marian Tasco said, “Mitt Romney was born with a silver foot in his mouth. He has no idea about what’s happening in this country.”
Then Councilwoman Maria Quinones-Sanchez said “Mitt Romney said, it would be better if he was Mexican… Thank you but no thank you.”
In closing, Councilman Bill Green said “I would like to ask my colleagues to stop discussing Barack Obama’s secret weapon in this campaign and that is Mitt Romney, who only opens his mouth to put in the other foot.”
Councilman Curtis Jones Jr. whose comments about Romney prompted other members to speak about him at the close of Council's session, reminded the public about the “Be the Vote,” block party on Sept. 27 at the Sheppard Recreation Center from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. where he said transportation will be provided to “those 47 percent of the vote” so that they can get their Voter IDs.
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Before someone can go into a a tirade about the video of Obama and the redistribution of wealth... please note this http://www.examiner.com/article/nbc-news-releases-full-obama-redistribution-video-romney-campaign-trouble— manwithnoname
Comment removed.- Sharky...Difference here is that your whining over soundbites. In Philly, we have actions to show how inept the Democrats really are. Go ahead tool, try and defend your beloved democrats. What have ever done in this city other steal? They are kings and queens of OPM. Time to back home, junior...I hear your mom calling you.
- So what part about the completed statement; "because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level to make sure that everybody’s got a shot" makes you not believe he's in favor of taking one man or woman's money and giving it to someone else? And he has the right to do that??? — Diaperman50
- City Council has allowed the city to become the "47 percent"!!! Philadelphia, the land of entitlement!!!!!— Dadair1
- Well clearly Philadelphia is perfect and our finances are in complete order. No crime either! Wait, that's not true about our city? Oh, forgive me for thinking the City Council had fixed all of Philadelphia's problems considering they are wasting time talking about Mitt Romney. — logicandreason
- Why is this news?— ObamaSolyndra
- This from a group who steals every dime they can grab from the few remaining taxpayers everyday. They are so dumb that they probably think that the Inky is a real newspaper with real reporters, and not just the Party's mouthpiece.— Beethoven987
- of course the dems in philly are against it.. . ..they hate being called out.
— stevejones - I guess the City Council members are part of the 47% since they will receive their Gov't subsidy in the form of DROP payments....— aef1200
- Pot calling frying pan black.— marcie
way to go city council,no other work to do except to bad mouth a presidential cannidate.time to go back to work.— albee- It is only because the "secret" video went viral that we now have a glimpse of the man behind the wooden smile. Finally, the real Romney has emerged. This is what voters have been waiting for. Mr. Romney, out of robotic mode, speaking from the heart.
For the first time, we hear this man speaking confidently, eloquently, because he is saying what he believes. Comfortable because he is with his own kind, speaking his mind.
In public, the stress of concealment, never possible entirely to hide, reveals itself in Mr. Romney's breathless jerky voice, the uncomfortable laugh, the unfocused eyes, the awkward body movements--as his body literally rebels against the lies he is telling.
We had thought he was just a candidate uncomfortable with oratory.
No, he is a man hiding from the wider public his true beliefs.
Yes, Mr. Romney has finally revealed what he believes.
And that is the problem.
— MGarr - Either your brain dead or have your head in the sand, if you haven't seen the Democrats philosophy at work here in Philadelphia. I'll take Romney any day over the eggheads in City Council.
- Romney isn't running for City Council. He's running for President to benefit the 2% and his mentality, beliefs, and statements reveals that he will repeat the traditional Republican tactic of pitting the upper middle class and middle classs against low income seniors, troops, working poor, and lower middle class while he and the 2% can continue to run to the bank laughing with continued redistribution of the nation's wealth to the 2%. — ElecFact
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David Gambacorta spent a small eternity writing about cops, drug dealers and serial killers. Now he’s writing about power and politics – which sometimes reminds him of the old crime beat. He joined the Daily News in 2005. And yes, he knows you’re not quite sure how to pronounce his last name. E-mail tips to gambacd@phillynews.com
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Jan Ransom, a native New Yorker, joined the Daily News in 2010 after graduating from Howard University. She has since written about the difficulty of filing police complaints, tax deadbeats and life after violent home invasions. She joined the Daily News City Hall Bureau in 2011 and has plunged headfirst into reporting on administration budget battles and City Council shenanigans. E-mail tips to ransomj@phillynews.com
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Sean Collins Walsh is from Bucks County and went to Northwestern University. He joined the Daily News copy desk in 2012 and now covers the Nutter administration. Before that, he interned at papers including The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News and The Seattle Times. E-mail tips to walshSE@phillynews.com
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