Romney stumps in Missouri, inserts foot in mouth.

[paineinthearse]

Romney is stumping in South Carolina and Missouri. In In a jab at the rival Democratic Party, the governor asserted that to find its Missouri supporters, "You have to go to places where nobody wants to live anymore."

What the hell does that mean? Sounds elitist to me!

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/79CEE1900249BE9C86256FAE0021FDC1?OpenDocument&Headline=At+annual+meeting,+Missouri+GOP+savors+its+hold+on+power
At annual meeting, Missouri GOP savors its hold on power

By Jo Mannies
Post-Dispatch Political Correspondent
02/19/2005

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Missouri Republican activists, still giddy over the party's takeover of state government, happily re-elected Ann Wagner of Ballwin as head of the state party Saturday and embraced next year's quest to re-elect U.S. Sen. Jim Talent of Chesterfield.
Wagner, Talent and new Gov. Matt Blunt were among the Republican leaders spotlighted this weekend as hundreds of party loyalists gathered for their yearly Lincoln Days festivities, coincidentally held this year in a hotel on Blunt's home turf.

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The keynote speaker at Saturday's dinner, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a possible presidential candidate, sympathized with Missouri's budget plight. At a news conference, he said, "Medicaid is the Pac-Man of our country," eating up state budgets everywhere. Massachusetts does not have as difficult a time because only 7 percent lack medical insurance; in Missouri it is closer to 20 percent.

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In a jab at the rival Democratic Party, the governor asserted that to find its Missouri supporters, "You have to go to places where nobody wants to live anymore."

:wtf:

more......

Reporter Jo Mannies
E-mail: [e-mail]
Phone: [phone]

[saltpoint]

1. Mitt Romney reminds me of an overzealous high --

-- school pep rally captain.

I get the feeling he's never seen A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.

[nickinSTL]

2. right, like the Central West End or Clayton

in the Saint Louis area.

Two of the most desirable areas to live in the area, and both Democratic.

Shove it, Romney.

[hadrons]

3. Missouri Republican activists, still giddy over the party's takeover

Medicaid cuts could carry a political cost, too

By KEVIN MURPHY

The Kansas City Star


GERSTER, Mo. — Gary Ruckel, like most rural Missourians, backed Matt Blunt for governor last fall and voted other Republicans into legislative seats.

Ruckel agreed with Blunt on issues such as gun control and gay marriage, but he was not considering a subject that hit much closer to home: medical care.

So when Blunt proposed cuts in Medicaid last month that could cost Ruckel and his wife, Vivian Ruckel, some services, the couple had second thoughts about backing Republicans

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/10929121.htm

Thanks to dumb fucks like Gary & Vivian Ruckel, they can be giddy

[woofless]

4. He must mean Joplin,

Seriously.

[paineinthearse]

5. My letter to the governor's press secretary

Sent to [e-mail] & copied the Boston Globes State House bureau editor and a staff political reporter.

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Dear Press Secretary:

During Gov. Romney's stumping tour to in South Carolina and Missouri, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Jo Mannies is quoting him as having said: "In a jab at the rival Democratic Party, the governor asserted that to find its Missouri supporters, "You have to go to places where nobody wants to live anymore." "

What the hell does that mean? Unless the quote was taken out of context, and I trust the reporter to have been factual, this sounds elitist and racist to me!

Does he mean economically "challanged" areas such as Central West End or Clayton in the St. Louis area, or Joplin?

Please explain.

signed (me)

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http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/79CEE1900249BE9C86256FAE0021FDC1?OpenDocument&Headline=At+annual+meeting,+Missouri+GOP+savors+its+hold+on+power

At annual meeting, Missouri GOP savors its hold on power

By Jo Mannies
Post-Dispatch Political Correspondent
02/19/2005

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Missouri Republican activists, still giddy over the party's takeover of state government, happily re-elected Ann Wagner of Ballwin as head of the state party Saturday and embraced next year's quest to re-elect U.S. Sen. Jim Talent of Chesterfield.
Wagner, Talent and new Gov. Matt Blunt were among the Republican leaders spotlighted this weekend as hundreds of party loyalists gathered for their yearly Lincoln Days festivities, coincidentally held this year in a hotel on Blunt's home turf.

<snip>

The keynote speaker at Saturday's dinner, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a possible presidential candidate, sympathized with Missouri's budget plight. At a news conference, he said, "Medicaid is the Pac-Man of our country," eating up state budgets everywhere. Massachusetts does not have as difficult a time because only 7 percent lack medical insurance; in Missouri it is closer to 20 percent.

<snip>

In a jab at the rival Democratic Party, the governor asserted that to find its Missouri supporters, "You have to go to places where nobody wants to live anymore."

more......

Reporter Jo Mannies
E-mail: [e-mail]
Phone: [phone]

[skids]

6. Does he mean the entire state of massachusetts? n/t

[sallyseven]

7. You know he is nuts

He is the worse republican governor to ever be elected in MA. He will not be re-elected.

[skids]

8. We can hope.

Hopefully by now the rest of the people in this state have learned the error of their ways and no longer think a Republican is a good way to "balance out" the congress.

[skids]

9. Anyone got the full text of the statement?

Me and a little graphics editing program and a photo of Romney may make a lunch date to have us a little fun.

[paineinthearse]

10. All I have is the St. Louis article

The reporter's contact info is there.

OR........

Contact Romney's press secretary and get a transcript of the full speech. Contact info is in this thread (:my letter...").

[paineinthearse]

11. OOPS

Just received from Jo Mannies. Blunt, not Romney, made the insensitive remark.

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Jo Mannies
02/21/2005 02:32 PM

To: (me)
Subject: Re: "You have to go to places where nobody wants to live
anymore." 3ADFB7491D6F55E486256FAF0065CDA5

You're referring to the wrong governor. The governor who made that
remark, and who I clearly identified, is GOV. BLUNT, not Romney. Romney is mentioned must later in the story. Blunt made the remark in his address to the state Republican Committee, where he renominated Ann Wagner as his choice for state party chairman.

[ohkay]

12. I posted this on the Missouri page as well.

I'm ashamed by this man.

[paineinthearse]

13. Bluntism

From the same article as above:

At a town-hall forum Saturday morning, a few in the audience called for the governor to reinstate funding for the Bellefontaine Habitation Center in St. Louis, which houses about 400 mentally and physically disabled people, and First Steps, a program that offers therapy and educational services for developmentally disabled infants and toddlers. Blunt wasn't present at the session, but Republican legislative leaders - along with many in the audience - emphasized that they shared the governor's commitment to help "those who truly need it" while also crafting a state budget that doesn't raise taxes.

In several addresses throughout the weekend, Blunt said he was open to some budget changes but was unwavering in his chief approach. "The only way you can increase money for public schools" and not raise taxes is "we must reduce spending for social welfare programs," he told the crowd at a dinner Friday night. "If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase."

Blunt's largest cut would trim more than 80,000 people from the state-federal Medicaid program, which provides health care for the poor, elderly and disabled. The crowd cheered when he blasted what he called the "liberal media" opposed to his cuts, several times singling out the Post-Dispatch.

Blunt sure is one hell of a non-compassionate conservative!