AP – The millionaires, billionaires and companies giving big sums to political committees supporting Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Barack Obama have important business with the next president. Some are already in trouble with the government. Some are pressing for new laws or regulations that would benefit their interests in energy, mining and high finance.
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INFLUENCE GAME: Big donors and what they want
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If it’s Friday, it’s another White House dump day. Cue the dump truck horn: Doot! Doot! Doot! While Obama sycophants are busy trumpeting deceptive jobs numbers, the administration is quietly moving forward with job-killing Obamacare regs and taxes. The IRS today released rules to impose the $20 billion Obamacare medical device tax scheduled to take effect next year. At a time when the White House is touting its government initiatives to champion “ innovation ,” the Obamacare innovation tax on medical device/diagnostic manufacturers will kill an estimated 43,000 jobs. The very job creators President Obama purports to support are balking at the tax regs and have called for repeal . The Advanced Medical Technology Association, America’s leading association for med tech manufacturers, blasts the new rules: “[The proposed IRS regulations] highlights the need for prompt action by Congress and the Administration to repeal this anti-competitive, job-killing tax,” Stephen J. Ubl, AdvaMed president and CEO said in a statement. “Failure to repeal the device tax flies in the face of the President’s comments during the State of the Union about the need to reform our tax system to make our nation more competitive in the world market, a view shared by members of Congress from both parties,” Ubl went on to explain, adding that “the tax will create a number of complex administrative and technical burdens that must be addressed.” I’ve reported before on how the medical device tax has already resulted in operational and job cutbacks in Massachusetts, home to many medical innovators. Fewer jobs. Fewer entrepreneurs. Fewer medical advances. Winning the future…by killing it.
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Your Friday IRS regulation dump: Obamacare’s job-killing medical device tax
Major gaffe? It probably won’t do very much damage but there is a fundamental philosophy of Romney exposed here. Here is what Romney said: In an interview with CNN Wednesday morning that should have been a Florida victory lap, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney made a fumble that could give rivals an attack ad
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ContributorNetwork – COMMENTARY | I watched former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s Florida victory speech Tuesday night. He’s looking stronger since the South Carolina debates in an attempt to defeat Newt Gingrich and show that he’s no “shrinking violet.”
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Harvard Educated Romney Disses Harvard Educated Obama
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You may have issues with the current politicians in Washington, but at least, to our knowledge, none of them have ever been charged with murdering a lover 33 years ago. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that Bridgewater Councilman Gregory Scott Hopkins, a 65-year-old building contractor, has been charged with homicide of a young woman in 1979, thanks to a break-through in DNA evidence linking the legislator to the murder. “Councilman Gregory Scott Hopkins, 65, a building contractor, was charged with homicide because DNA evidence linked him to the slaying of Catherine Janet Walsh, 23, of Monaca, District Attorney Anthony J. Berosh said. Her father found her in her bed, bound and strangled with a bandana, on Sept. 1, 1979. Defense attorney James Ross said Hopkins is innocent, adding: ‘We intend to fight (these charges) vigorously.’ Police found DNA evidence on Walsh’s nightgown, the white rope that bound her hands behind her back and the bedsheet that covered her body, according to the criminal complaint. New tests of the evidence established a link to Hopkins, prosecutors said. The complaint indicates that when police interviewed Hopkins seven hours after Walsh was found, he acknowledged that he and Walsh had been lovers but said that it had been a month since they had been intimate in her home.” Residents of the small community of about 850 were reportedly shocked to hear the charges. “When I heard (about the arrest) on the news, it shocked me. I couldn’t believe it,” said one of Hopkins’ neighbors, Tim Phillippi to the Tribune. “I always thought he was a real nice guy. I never in a million years would have thought this.” Rod Weaver, who lives next door to Hopkins, said the councilman “was always very friendly to me. I would see him in the backyard and he would say, ‘Hi! How are you doing?’ We never had any problems.” Hopkins is a Republican and was appointed to the borough council in 2010. A federal grant in 2010 gave troopers the money to resubmit evidence from this and other cases for DNA analysis, which wasn’t available in 1979. The Tribune reports that Andrew J. Gall Jr., who was the first Monaca police officer to respond to Caltury’s initial call and is now a county detective, spent hours tracking similar, unsolved murders around the country. Before the crime lab analysis was finished last week and warrant for Hopkins obtained Sunday, DNA samples were obtained for Hopkins and others — some now living in Massachusetts, California and elsewhere — who police interviewed initially about Walsh’s murder. “Because of your dedication, professionalism and your relentless pursuit of justice, today has brought a measure of comfort, relief and satisfaction to our family,” ABC News reports Walsh’s brother, Francesco Caltieri, 52, said at a news conference Monday. Hopkins is being held in the Beaver County Jail without bond. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Monday.
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AP – Sounding like the presumptive GOP nominee once again, Mitt Romney is returning his focus to President Barack Obama.
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Romney turns focus back to President Obama
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