I contributed the portion of our roundup of Trayvon Martin coverage that focused on what had been reported about the initial police investigation, so I’m chagrined to say I missed this comprehensive tick-tock by Frances Robles...
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• Gingrich said to be planning exit for early next week • Supreme Court goes easy on Arizona immigration law • Napolitano: Secret Service shenanigans 'inexcusable' 9.00am: Good morning and welcome to your Wednesday politics liveblog coverage. Doing the typing is Tom McCarthy here in New York and here's a summary of where things stand: • Mitt Romney won presidential primaries in five northeastern ...
Herman Cain, who suspended his own bid for the GOP presidential nomination amid a flurry of allegations of past sexual impropriety, backed Mitt Romney Wednesday - his third endorsement after dropping out of the race.
Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel, the Republican Party’s candidate Nov. 6 for U.S. Senate, stopped Wednesday in Mentor as part of a week-long 22-county tour to discuss his newly unveiled jobs plan.
Here is the full debate video in a 9-part playlist from YouTube:
About The Candidates
1. Michele Bachmann's primary exposure to business came during her service as a tax litigator at the IRS. Later, she maintained a tax law office before throwing herself into education activism in Minnesota.
2. Herman Cain is best known for rescuing the ailing Godfather Pizza chain with his strategy of shutting hundreds of locations and focusing on per-store profits. Now he’s vowing to govern as he would run a business: spend money as it comes in and avoid debt.
3. Newt Gingrich's sweeping measures to right-size the federal government and lower taxes that he introduced as Speaker in the 1990s foundered on the realities of Washington politics. Now he's advocating management techniques to streamline federal bureaucracy.
4. Jon Huntsman’s 30-year government career was interrupted by an eight-year stint as a corporate executive at the company founded by his father, Jon Huntsman Sr., who invented the clamshell food container. The candidate then held ambassadorships to both Singapore and China.
5. Ron Paul- As a private-practice obstetrician, Ron Paul built a small business, and his concern for rank-and-file entrepreneurs shows up in his libertarian arguments for reforming the federal financial system.
6. Rick Perry- A politician since the early 1990s, Rick Perry knows the hardships of running a small family concern. After flying C-150 cargo planes for the air force, Perry returned to ranch where he grew up in Paint Creek, Texas.
7. Mitt Romney’s promise as a candidate is to implement “the Bain Way”—the approach that made his venture capital firm, and clients like Domino's Pizza and Staples a success. More relevant now may be his reputation for turning around Bain Consulting and pulling it from bankruptcy. unconfirmed
8. Rick Santorum is running on his conservative stands on social issues. He's made a bid to get in the economic conversation with his “zero-zero-zero” plan, echoing Cain’s “9-9-9” program.
