Rep. David Rivera (R-FL) helped run a shadow campaign for a primary challenger for his Democratic opponent using $43,000 in secret money, the Miami Herald reports.
Campaign vendors said that Rivera helped orchestrate a mail campaign on behalf of Justin Lamar Sternad, who was campaigning against Democratic candidate Joe Garcia. From the Herald:
Former RNC Chair Michael Steele admitted Wednesday that not including rape exemptions in an abortion ban is “way outside” the “mainstream of American thought” Wednesday, but said Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign shouldn’t have a “big fight” over changing the GOP platform, which includes no such exemptions.
“No,” Steele said on NewsChannel8’s “NewsTalk,” when asked by host Bruce DePuyt if opposing a rape exemption was a mainstream position. “There’s a wide array of views on the issue, and there are a lot. I think recent polls have showed a bare majority of Americans — 50, 51 percent of Americans — call themselves pro-life, but even in calling themselves pro-life, they recognize the exemptions for rape, incest and life of the mother. So this view held by [Rep. Todd Akin] is way outside that mainstream of American thought.”
The smoke in our bedroom was so strong I thought the house might be on fire. As it turned out, the house wasn't burning, but Utah was. Three new wildfires had started Saturday afternoon about 10 miles from the ski resort town of Park City, where my parents live and I've been staying for the past week. The fires torched more than 500 acres of land around the nearby Jordanelle Reservoir and some nearby Forest Service land, sending plumes of acrid smoke across the valley and eventually into my window. Campers in the Jordanelle state park had to be evacuated, as did vacation-home residents and guests at the ritzy St. Regis Hotel in Deer Valley, the playground of the ultra-rich where Mitt Romney once had a house.
How do you make matters worse for an elusive intelligence company that has been forced to scramble for explanations about their ownership of an intricate, widespread surveillance program? Just ask Cubic, whose troubles only begin with TrapWire.
Days after the international intelligence gathering surveillance system called TrapWire was unraveled by RT, an ongoing investigation into any and all entities with ties to the technology has unturned an ever-increasing toll of creepy truths. In only the latest installment of the quickly snowballing TrapWire saga, a company that shares several of the same board members as the secret spy system has been linked to a program called Tartan, which aims to track down alleged anarchists by specifically singling out Occupy Wall Street protesters and the publically funded media — all with the aid of federal agents.
If Romney received income as a sole proprietor, he had to pay 7.65 percent in Medicare and Social Security taxes (more than half his proclaimed tax payments). Then you have retail tax, property tax (and they have plenty of property), you have state income taxes, etc.
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