Day: July 9, 2012

Three Questions for Mitt Romney about His Offshore Wealth

Jon Ponder

Business Insider:

The Obama campaign doubled down on its attacks against Mitt Romney’s personal wealth today, releasing a new online video that slams the Republican presidential candidate over his offshore financial holdings in known tax havens.

The video, which features Obama’s campaign press secretary Ben LaBolt, makes some pretty bold claims, basically accusing Romney of using a Bermudan shell corporation to dodge U.S. taxes and hide the extent of his personal fortune.

While the attacks are so far unsubstantiated, the video does raise three interesting questions that Romney has yet to answer about his offshore holdings:

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Vouchers Allow Choice of Islamic Schools, and La. Lawmakers Don’t Like It

Buck Banks

I liked the idea of giving parents the option of sending their children to a public school or a Christian school. Unfortunately it will not be limited to the Founders’ religion. We need to insure that it does not open the door to fund radical Islam schools.

— Louisiana state Rep. Valarie Hodges (R), quoted by the Livingston Parish News, upon learning that the recently passed voucher program can go to Muslim schools as well as Christian schools.

Colo. Senator Says Mosques are not Places of Worship

Buck Banks

Mosques are not churches like we would think of churches. They think of mosques more as a foothold into a society, as a foothold into a community, more in the cultural and in the nationalistic sense. Our churches — we don’t feel that way, they’re places of worship, and mosques are simply not that, and we need to take that into account when approving construction of those.

— Colorado state Sen. Kevin Grantham (R), quoted by the Colorado Statesman, saying a proposal to ban construction of new mosques should be considered.

With Friends Like Boehner …

Buck Banks

The American people probably aren’t going to fall in love with Mitt Romney. I’ll tell you this: 95 percent of the people that show up to vote in November are going to show up in that voting booth, and they are going to vote for or against Barack Obama. Mitt Romney has some friends, relatives and fellow Mormons … some people that are going to vote for him. But that’s not what this election is about. This election is going to be a referendum on the president’s failed economic policies.

— House Speaker John Boehner, quoted by Roll Call.