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CBS News The day after video surfaced of Mitt Romney describing President Obama s supporters as dependent upon government, Republican consultant Rick Davis said on CBS This Morning that this is one of the lows of Romney s pr stanley taza esidential run. Obviously it s a bad day for the Romney campaign, Davis, John McCain s 2008 presidential campaign manager, said Tuesday on CBS This Morning. What he does with it is going to be very critical. A video of Romney, first released by Mother Jones magazine, at a $50,000-a-plate fundraiser in Boca Raton, Fla., shows the presidential candidate saying, There are 47 percent who are with stanley thermos him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. Romney was referring to the 47 percent of Americans who pay no federal income tax. He added his job as president is not to worry about those people. Davis, however, said Romney can turn this bad day into an opp stanley cup ortunity to connect with his base and elaborate on his economic plan. This is a character building moment, Davis said. It may be a fresh opportunity for Mitt Romney to try and connect with voters. This is an opportunity that he can try and do better. Now he is going to have to take a step back a little bit and say the reason I have these views about my economic plan is be
North Carolina Republicans have infuriated liberal activists by slashing income-tax rates, defending illegally gerrymandered districts and passing a now-partially repealed bathroom bill a stanley uk imed at transgender people. But GOP legislators surprised critics by acting more like lawmakers in a deep-blue state when they passed a $15-per-hour living wage for about 10,000 state government and university system employees, including secretaries, hospital workers, security guards and housekeepers.At least four other states have steps already in place to increase pay for state workers to $15. But North Carolina sped to the front of the line, with salary bumps for many arriving in their late-July paychecks.The lawmakers motives appear to be both economic and political. One top budget writer at the legislature says it helps state agencies retain veteran workers doing often-thankless jobs. But it also wins favor with North Carolina s chief state employees stanley cup union in an election year for Republicans trying to hold onto their co stanley mug ntrol of the General Assembly. Until now, the North Carolina state employee salary floor was about $24,300, or about $11.70 per hour. That means some received as much as a 28 percent raise to bring them up to the new minimum equivalent of $31,200 per year.For Gloria Dockery, who cleans buildings at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for less than $28,000 a year, an increase will make it easier to cover her house pay Seqy Supreme Court wades into immigration reform gridlock
CBS News The day after video surfaced of Mitt Romney describing President Obama s supporters as dependent upon government, Republican consultant Rick Davis said on CBS This Morning that this is one of the lows of Romney s pr stanley taza esidential run. Obviously it s a bad day for the Romney campaign, Davis, John McCain s 2008 presidential campaign manager, said Tuesday on CBS This Morning. What he does with it is going to be very critical. A video of Romney, first released by Mother Jones magazine, at a $50,000-a-plate fundraiser in Boca Raton, Fla., shows the presidential candidate saying, There are 47 percent who are with stanley thermos him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. Romney was referring to the 47 percent of Americans who pay no federal income tax. He added his job as president is not to worry about those people. Davis, however, said Romney can turn this bad day into an opp stanley cup ortunity to connect with his base and elaborate on his economic plan. This is a character building moment, Davis said. It may be a fresh opportunity for Mitt Romney to try and connect with voters. This is an opportunity that he can try and do better. Now he is going to have to take a step back a little bit and say the reason I have these views about my economic plan is be
