October 14, 2012

Mitt Romney's Bain/Sensata Funds Hiding in Cayman Islands

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1477294/000119312512061420/d298270dsc13ga.htm

October 13, 2012

Topics for third debate announced

The 5 topics:

The Changing Middle East and the New Face of Terrorism
Our longest war – Afghanistan and Pakistan
Red Lines – Israel and Iran
The Rise of China and Tomorrow’s World
America’s role in the world


http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/13/topics-for-third-debate-announced/comment-page-1/

(CNN) - Topics for the third and final presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney were announced by the moderator and debate commission on Saturday.

Moderator Bob Schieffer of CBS News has selected five topics, though the Commission on Presidential Debates said those topics could change depending on news developments

October 13, 2012

Ted Kennedy had targeted pharmacies involved in meningitis outbreak

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1061167341&srvc=rss

Ted Kennedy targeted pharmacy
But lobbyists killed ’07 bill

Saturday, October 13, 2012

U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy pushed for tighter regulations that may have prevented the nationwide deadly meningitis outbreak tied to a Framingham compounding pharmacy but was stopped cold by a well-financed industry group.

“The reaction of the compounding pharmacy group was to mount a very aggressive lobbying campaign,” said a former Kennedy staffer. “They identified pharmacists in key districts and sent them to lobby members.”

The industry group shunned requests to shape legislation and waged an “unprecedented” campaign to kill the draft bill, the former staffer said.
The late senator’s bipartisan legislation, the Safe Drug Compounding Act of 2007, would have given the federal Food and Drug Administration authority to regulate compounding pharmacies, which are now monitored by states, and to require sterile drug mixing.

Framingham-based New England Compounding Center, which federal officials said is the source of fungus-contaminated steroids that have killed 14 people and sickened 184 in 12 states, was only inspected after complaints, according to officials.

Compounding pharmacy groups opposed the legislation to give the FDA wider authority, according to a 2007 letter the groups sent to Kennedy and two Republican co-sponsors.

“We strongly urge you to reconsider introducing this draft legislation,” stated the letter from the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists and eight other trade organizations.

The academy has spent more than $1 million lobbying lawmakers in the past decade, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
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October 13, 2012

House committee seeks briefing from meningitis-linked pharmacy

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(The fox will be investigating the hen house. In other words, a Republican led commitee, who have fought against oversight and FDA regulations, bought and paid by lobbyists, will hold a hearing on the deaths of 14 by contaminated drugs by the company owned by Republicans, who have held Republican fundraisers for candidate Scott Brown who VOTED against further regulation in the compound drug industry. This whole story needs an investigative journalist. The company has been implicated in needless deaths since 2004, from contaminated drugs. We need to make the Republicans OWN this tragedy.)

October 13, 2012

Contaminated drug company owners hosts Republican fundraiser

"In September, Gregory Conigliaro and his wife hosted a fundraiser for Brown at their Southborough, Mass., home. Alleigh Marré, press secretary from the Brown campaign, told the Globe that the campaign would not be donating all the money raised at the September event, only that received from NECC officials"
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/brown_giving_away_funds_compound_drug_execs.php

Janet Wu of WCVB brings it home, reporting that NECC president Greg Conigliaro hosted a fundraiser for Scott Brown at his Southborough mansion, raking up $37,000 for the Brown campaign. Conigliaro and family members have ponied up $10,000 of their own.
And by sheer coincidence, Brown was one of ten senators who signed a letter in July urging the Drug Enforcement Administration to loosen regulations on the compounding pharmacy industry.
Read more: Holmes & Co. http://blogs.wickedlocal.com/holmesandco/#ixzz29C42DQ9z

October 13, 2012

Tagg Team: The Romney Family Recipe for Crony Capitalism

http://www.thenation.com/article/170470/tagg-team-romney-family-recipe-crony-capitalism

Marc Leder, a wealthy investor, played host to Mitt Romney last May at a private fundraiser at his $4 million home in Boca Raton. Little did Leder know at the time, however, that someone would videotape the event and later leak it to the world, revealing the GOP standard-bearer in the act of caustically dismissing 47 percent of the country as too “dependent upon government” even to consider voting for him this year.
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Leder attempted to duck the ensuing storm of media attention, telling Fortune that he had simply “hosted a fundraiser for an old friend.” But Leder’s ties to the candidate run deeper than campaign contributions or an old friendship. As an investor, he is part of a network of links to the Romney family business empire that will acquire enormous relevance if the GOP nominee manages to ascend to the White House. In 2008, soon after Romney ended his first bid for the presidency, his eldest son Tagg and his chief fundraiser, Spencer Zwick, formed Solamere Capital, a private equity firm named after the exclusive community in Utah where Romney owned a vacation ski lodge.
What Tagg lacked in experience in the world of high finance, he made up for with a vast network of political connections forged through his father, who seeded the firm with $10 million and was the featured speaker at its first investor conference in January of 2010. Romney also reportedly gave strategic advice to the company, which secured prominent campaign donors as some of its first investors.
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October 12, 2012

I think Ryan did even worse than we think

been watching Twitter and neither Michele Malkin or Ann Coulter have had anything to say since the debates ended. Dead Silence. Compared to the flurry of pixel diarrhea and gloating after the Presidential debate.

October 11, 2012

Ryan to be called "Mister" and not "Congressman"

(Call me Mister Fibbs)

Paul Ryan Embarrassed to Be a Congressman

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/10/paul-ryan-mr-ryan-debate-raddatz.html

October 11, 2012

Lyin Ryan

October 11, 2012

Romney's Bain selling out workers to China