Posted on 10/18/2011 4:37:49 PM PDT by kristinn
Broadcast on: CNN
Broadcast time: 8pm EDT/5pm PDT
The Candidates:
Michele Bachmann
Bachmann is serving her 3rd full term in the U.S. House. Founder of the House Tea Party Caucus, worked as a tax attorney, and was a foster mother for 23 teenagers. She is a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Herman Cain
Cain is the former chief executive of Godfather's Pizza and former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. He lost the Georgia Republican primary for a U.S. Senate seat in 2004. He was recently the host of Atlanta-based radio show.
Newt Gingrich
Gingrich served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. He represented Georgia's 6th congressional district as a Republican member from 1979 to 1999. He has a PhD in modern European history.
Ron Paul
Paul is serving his 11th full term in the U.S. House. He’s an ob-gyn and was Libertarian nominee for president in 1988. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for president in 2008
Rick Perry
Perry is the three term governor of Texas, from 2000 to current. He is a retired Air Force captain for former farmer. He has a degree in animal science.
Mitt Romney
Romney was governor of Massachusetts (2003 to 2007) and former CEO of Bain Capital, a private equity investment firm. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican 2008 nomination for president. He has an MBA (Harvard) and JD (Harvard Law).
Rick Santorum
Santorum served two terms in the U.S. House and two terms in the U.S. Senate. He became the Senate's third-ranking Republican in 2001. He was defeated for reelection in 2006.
These guys have GOT TO ATTACK OBAMA MORE.
This is a large national TV audience, in airports and restaurants around the nation. Cmong guys. Hit Obama on illegals, class warfare, Obama care, apologizing overseas, Solyndra, Fast and Furious..... hit hit hit
Perry is getting BOO’d by the audience. That isn’t good.
Perry really getting booed over the immigration question.
Lots of hispanics in Nevada?
AMEN and thank you Jim
Mitt MOB! BOOOOOOO!
Mitt taking another cheap shot at Perry.
Yes, her response was excellent there.
Wow....Audience just booed Perry!
Wow....this crowd must be related to Mitt.
Romney is imploding.
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mitt looks petty and argumentative.
Oh, come on, he made a simple direct answer and there is nothing wrong with that.
He’s “boycotting”
Romney makes me almost sick!!
Perry is making himself look like an ass. Mitt already is, but it takes two to engage in a p!ssing contest and Perry joined the club.
Actually Cain may need to revise his suggestion of having the states handle the illegals instead of the feds, because if the states do it, there will be too much incentive for corruption, ala Perry.
Big names on list of companies ICE fined
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have decided that they are no longer releasing information to the public on companies fined for hiring illegal immigrants.
Despite talking tough about cracking down on employers who break federal immigration laws, ICE is withholding the names and other identifying information about the companies it penalizes, essentially protecting them from public scrutiny.
Richard Rocha, an ICE spokesman, said ICE attorneys have advised them not to disclose information about the fines because of a pending case before the Supreme Court that looks at whether corporations have a right to “personal privacy.”
We’d make the argument, however, that there is a public interest in learning which companies were fined. We have a copy of the list of companies hit with civil fines from 2007 through mid-July and, which was converted into a database and published here on the blog. (To view this database, click on the “continue reading” this post link at the bottom.)
For example, Westex Well Services, a company headed up by Texas Tech University Regent Mickey Long, paid $60,984 to immigration officials earlier this summer. (That’s the 16th largest fine nationally and the third-largest in Texas since 2007.)
Long was appointed to his regent position by Gov. Rick Perry in February 2009. He has contributed $135,000 to Perry’s campaign over the years and is listed as his co-chair for fundraising based out of Midland. (Long did not return phone calls to his home or business seeking comment.)
There are some big names on this list of 220 companies: Koch Food of Cincinnati, LLC ($536,046), Johnson Dairy LLC out of Colorado ($100,800), and American Rice Inc. of Texas ($5,486).
More at the link
http://blog.chron.com/immigration/2010/09/big-names-on-list-of-companies-ice-fined/
He should be on the front line, fighting for the names of companies hiring illegals to be made public knowledge. But, oops, he can't because some of those companies donate to his campaigns and co-chair his fundraising!
Come on Perry, show us how tough you are on illegals and how you want them to STOP entering Texas illegally. Pressure ICE to release those names and stop protecting those companies.
Does RomneyCare cover illegal aliens?
Yep, the used car salesman just about sums it up!
I bought a blue Gremlin in 1974! I loved that car.....
Until the entire thing rusted out around me in less than four years!
Mr. Rick Perry WHACKS Romney for his lies.
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