Presidential candidate Mitt Romney addressed members of the NAACP today in Houston. “I’m running for president, because I know that my policies and vision will help millions of middle class Americans of all races, will lift people from poverty and will help prevent people from becoming poor in the first place.” Romney told the predominantly black audience that they had been let down by the Obama administration. He also singled out the Affordable Care Act. “If our goal is jobs, we have to stop spending over a trillion dollars more than we take in every year,” Romney said. “And so to do that, I’m going to eliminate every non-essential, expensive program I can find. That includes Obamacare. And I’m going to work to reform and save...” Boos from the crowd...
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Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst recently removed all of his speeches from his state website – including a controversial address from 2007 in which he expresses support for giving work visas to illegal immigrants. Dewhurst is currently in a runoff with Ted Cruz for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison. Jay Root is a reporter with KUT’s political-reporting partner The Texas Tribune. He says this is a pretty significant distraction for the Dewhurst campaign. “If you look at the quote, it’s pretty clear that he was expressing support for a guest worker program,” Root says. “He said, quote, ‘I support a guest worker program for those here illegally.’ That’s in the speech and that is no longer operative.” Root says the countdown to the...
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