CONTRIBUTORS MENTIONED IN DEBATE. Transcript.
ROMNEY: Mr. President, Mr. President, you’re entitled as the president to your own airplane and to your own house, but not to your own facts. All right, I’m not going to cut education funding. I don’t have any plan to cut education funding and — and grants that go to people going to college. I’m planning on (inaudible) to grow. So I’m not planning on making changes there.
But you make a very good point, which is that the place you put your money just makes a pretty clear indication of where your heart is. You put $90 billion into — into green jobs. And I — look, I’m all in favor of green energy. $90 billion, that would have — that would have hired 2 million teachers. $90 billion.
And these businesses, many of them have gone out of business, I think about half of them, of the ones have been invested in have gone out of business. A number of them happened to be owned by people who were contributors to your campaigns.
USE OF AARP NAME ISSUE. Story here. “Obama cited the nonpartisan senior lobby twice in Wednesday’s debate when arguing against Mitt Romney’s Medicare proposals.”
PENSION ISSUE. Story here. “Congressman Todd Akin failed to report almost $130,000 in Missouri legislative pension income over the past 10 years on his congressional financial disclosure report, his office acknowledged this morning.”
VAN HOLLEN UPDATE. Status Report. “Pursuant to the Court’s Order of September 20, 2012 (Docket No. 66), the Federal Election Commission hereby advises that it does not intend to pursue a rulemaking and that it will continue to defend 11 C.F.R. § 104.20(c)(9) before the Court.”
TOP SUPER PACS. Story here. “In this election cycle so far, 900 reported super PACs have spent more than $318 million to influence presidential and congressional races, funding a blitz of advertising in the primary states, swing states, and nationwide.”
DONOR STORY. Washington Examiner. “According to knowlegable sources, a national magazine and a national web site are preparing a blockbuster donor scandal story.”
SUPER PAC QUESTIONS. The Post. “Have conservative groups bungled their chance to help defeat Barack Obama?”
IA: PLEAS IN CASE. Story here. “Special prosecutors say they dismissed charges against two men accused of making an illegal contribution to former Gov. Chet Culver’s campaign because it was in the ‘best interest of justice.'”
OR: SUPREME COURT RULES. Story here. “Oregon political campaigns will continue to have access to unlimited campaign contributions. That’s the upshot of a ruling Thursday from the Oregon Supreme Court.”
VA: DELGAUDIO UPDATE. Story here. “The Loudoun Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to have an outside investigator examine whether Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio (R-Sterling) violated county policy in his use of office assistants, but the results are unlikely to warrant calls for Delgaudio’s removal.”
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