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a message from Stephanie Cutter

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Here’s just a snapshot of what Mitt Romney‘s platform calls for:

— Turn Medicare into a voucher program to buy private insurance,
forcing seniors to pay more out of pocket for their health care costs.

— Outlaw all abortions without exception for rape or incest
(including a “salute” to states like Virginia that have passed extreme
ultrasound laws).

— Ban marriage equality and reject civil unions of all kinds.

— Won’t protect the mortgage interest deduction for middle-class
families if Romney enacts his tax plan, even though it helps more than
30 million middle-class families.

— Kill investments in clean energy jobs and reject the wind
production tax credit, which would cost up to 37,000 American jobs.

“Intolerant” and “mean-spirited” sounds about right to me.

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are in lockstep with this platform, but pay
close attention to what they’re saying up on that stage this week — I
guarantee you won’t hear a whole lot about any of that.

Instead, they’re filling their free airtime with false promises and
baseless attacks on President Obama. We can’t let them get away with it.

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This Week’s Top 3 On ThinkProgr​ess: The RNC Edition


This week was dominated by the Republican National Convention, and ThinkProgress was there to fact-check the claims of the GOP’s featured stars. Check out the important posts you may have missed:

1. FACTS MATTER: The Ultimate Guide To Mitt Romney’s Convention Speech

2. The 6 Worst Lies In Paul Ryan’s Speech

3. RNC’s Featured Small Business Owner: My Company Needs More Government Contracts

Best,

Igor Volsky Deputy Editor, ThinkProgress

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Mitt Romney‘s running mate Paul Ryan delivered a forty-minute speech that was riddled with numerous, already debunked attacks. The “intellectual leader of the Republican Party” not only failed on the facts, he failed to offer one concrete idea for this country’s future. Take a look at Ryan’s flagrant disregard for the truth, and then share this video with your friends.

 

 

CarMax co-founder: “I didn’t do it alone”

 

 

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Nineteen years ago, Austin Ligon and his partners had a simple idea: make buying a used car a transparent, easy process. Today, CarMax, the business he co-founded and served as CEO, is America‘s largest auto retailer—a public company that sells more than 750,000 used cars a year, employs nearly 17,000 people in 30 states, and has been named one of Fortune’s Top 100 companies to work for for eight consecutive years.

 


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FYI … American Progress


Ohio coal miners lost a day’s pay after they were forced to attend a Romney rally on a “mandatory and unpaid” basis. The mine is owned by a major Romney donor.

Mitt Romney wants consumers to waste an extra $1.7 TRILLION on gas.

The Romney campaign laughs off a reporter’s question about their false and discredited welfare attacks.

As Hurricane Isaac bears down on New Orleans, a Romney campaign co-chair complains that the media is “obsessed with mother nature.”

The fact-free Romney campaign.

The mayor of Los Angeles had some sharp words for the GOP on immigration.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) is crying wolf on the Obama administration’s response to Hurricane Isaac.

Florida’s GOP voter suppression law brought voter registration to a standstill.

Wisconsin’s lieutenant governor backtracked on her criticism of Todd Akin after being told that Paul Ryan also tried to redefine rape: “I think there is a way to have a more forcible rape.”