Mitt Romney Gets Campaign Donation From Victoria’s Secret CEO Money man Mitt Romney will take it any way he can get it…….when it comes to campaign donations. Mitt Romney knows Victoria’s Secret. Romney, in New York today for some campaign fundraising, regaled donors with talk of his pledge to repeal the president’s health care law. Joined at Cipriani by New York Jets owner Woody Johnson, Romney also joked about going to the home of Les Wexner, the chairman, CEO and founder of Limited Brands Inc. in Columbus, Ohio. Wexner, a self-made billionaire, has enjoyed a boost in the stock price of his company’s chain of shopping mall stores this year. That includes Victoria’s Secret, the lingerie giant with the famously glossy catalogs. Wexner donated $250,000 in April to a super-political action committee, Restore Our Future, that supports Romney for election as president and opposes Barack Obama. “Some of you know Les Wexner,” Romney told his audience. “He owns Victoria’s Secret, among a number of other enterprises. He has a very, very large home,” Romney said. “I remarked to Les, ‘Never has so little fabric bought so big a house.’” Source Image via Wenn
Mitt Romney Gets Campaign Donation From Victoria’s Secret CEO Money man Mitt Romney will take it any way he can get it…….when it comes to campaign donations. Mitt Romney knows Victoria’s Secret. Romney, in New York today for some campaign fundraising, regaled donors with talk of his pledge to repeal the president’s health care law. Joined at Cipriani by New York Jets owner Woody Johnson, Romney also joked about going to the home of Les Wexner, the chairman, CEO and founder of Limited Brands Inc. in Columbus, Ohio. Wexner, a self-made billionaire, has enjoyed a boost in the stock price of his company’s chain of shopping mall stores this year. That includes Victoria’s Secret, the lingerie giant with the famously glossy catalogs. Wexner donated $250,000 in April to a super-political action committee, Restore Our Future, that supports Romney for election as president and opposes Barack Obama. “Some of you know Les Wexner,” Romney told his audience. “He owns Victoria’s Secret, among a number of other enterprises. He has a very, very large home,” Romney said. “I remarked to Les, ‘Never has so little fabric bought so big a house.’” Source Image via Wenn
Mitt Romney Gets Campaign Donation From Victoria’s Secret CEO Money man Mitt Romney will take it any way he can get it…….when it comes to campaign donations. Mitt Romney knows Victoria’s Secret. Romney, in New York today for some campaign fundraising, regaled donors with talk of his pledge to repeal the president’s health care law. Joined at Cipriani by New York Jets owner Woody Johnson, Romney also joked about going to the home of Les Wexner, the chairman, CEO and founder of Limited Brands Inc. in Columbus, Ohio. Wexner, a self-made billionaire, has enjoyed a boost in the stock price of his company’s chain of shopping mall stores this year. That includes Victoria’s Secret, the lingerie giant with the famously glossy catalogs. Wexner donated $250,000 in April to a super-political action committee, Restore Our Future, that supports Romney for election as president and opposes Barack Obama. “Some of you know Les Wexner,” Romney told his audience. “He owns Victoria’s Secret, among a number of other enterprises. He has a very, very large home,” Romney said. “I remarked to Les, ‘Never has so little fabric bought so big a house.’” Source Image via Wenn
Mitt Romney Gets Campaign Donation From Victoria’s Secret CEO Money man Mitt Romney will take it any way he can get it…….when it comes to campaign donations. Mitt Romney knows Victoria’s Secret. Romney, in New York today for some campaign fundraising, regaled donors with talk of his pledge to repeal the president’s health care law. Joined at Cipriani by New York Jets owner Woody Johnson, Romney also joked about going to the home of Les Wexner, the chairman, CEO and founder of Limited Brands Inc. in Columbus, Ohio. Wexner, a self-made billionaire, has enjoyed a boost in the stock price of his company’s chain of shopping mall stores this year. That includes Victoria’s Secret, the lingerie giant with the famously glossy catalogs. Wexner donated $250,000 in April to a super-political action committee, Restore Our Future, that supports Romney for election as president and opposes Barack Obama. “Some of you know Les Wexner,” Romney told his audience. “He owns Victoria’s Secret, among a number of other enterprises. He has a very, very large home,” Romney said. “I remarked to Les, ‘Never has so little fabric bought so big a house.’” Source Image via Wenn
Mitt Romney Gets Campaign Donation From Victoria’s Secret CEO Money man Mitt Romney will take it any way he can get it…….when it comes to campaign donations. Mitt Romney knows Victoria’s Secret. Romney, in New York today for some campaign fundraising, regaled donors with talk of his pledge to repeal the president’s health care law. Joined at Cipriani by New York Jets owner Woody Johnson, Romney also joked about going to the home of Les Wexner, the chairman, CEO and founder of Limited Brands Inc. in Columbus, Ohio. Wexner, a self-made billionaire, has enjoyed a boost in the stock price of his company’s chain of shopping mall stores this year. That includes Victoria’s Secret, the lingerie giant with the famously glossy catalogs. Wexner donated $250,000 in April to a super-political action committee, Restore Our Future, that supports Romney for election as president and opposes Barack Obama. “Some of you know Les Wexner,” Romney told his audience. “He owns Victoria’s Secret, among a number of other enterprises. He has a very, very large home,” Romney said. “I remarked to Les, ‘Never has so little fabric bought so big a house.’” Source Image via Wenn
Condoleeza Rice Speaks Out Against Obama Immigration Policy; Predicts Mitt Romney As Presidential Victor More shameless shade from the GOP… Condoleeza Rice, whose post-Bush years have been spent mostly at Stanford University, is making her voice heard in political circles again. Just days after reportedly bringing down the house with a powerful speech at a Utah retreat with Republicans donors for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, Rice flew to Washington to headline a fundraiser for ShePAC, a new super PAC that supports conservative female candidates. The appearance was notably her very first DC fundraiser for a political outside group, complete with a private foreign policy briefing with sitting female lawmakers and Republican House and Senate candidates from across the country. “This is a truly consequential election. This is perhaps a turning point for the country. I’m very often asked to speak about the foreign policy aspects and there are some key important foreign policy issues before us,” Rice said before briefly listing a series of challenges abroad. “There are many foreign policy issues on the agenda, but we are not going to address any of those international challenges unless we get it right at home. And it’s not right at home right now, and the American people know it.” She went on to tell her own story of a child who grew up in the segregated South whose parents encouraged her to seek an education. Rice lamented what he sees as changing attitudes about opportunities for success in the United States and–without calling him by name–criticized President Barack Obama for announcing that his administration would selectively enforce immigration laws. “Americans who come here from other places to be a part of that belief that you can come from humble circumstances and do great things, which is why we need an immigration policy that works,” Rice said. “But, by the way, we need one that the Congress and the president work out together, and we need to do something about access to education.” Rice, whose name is increasingly coming up as a possible candidate to become Romney’s running mate, ended her talk with a shout-out to the former Massachusetts governor. “America has a way of making the impossible seem inevitable in retrospect, and we’re going to do it again,” she said. “We’re going to strengthen ourselves, our democracy at home, we’re going to strengthen our economy, we’re going to do it with great leadership like the people in this room and like Governor Mitt Romney, who will be a terrific president.” Hmmm sounds like Condoleezy is buildin up those brownie points for that V.P. nomination. Do you think the former Secretary of State would make a good Vice President? Source Image via Wenn
Black People Are Still Jobless In New York As City Recovers From Recession How many of you are unemployed in NYC? For months now, New York officials have been highlighting how the city has regained all the jobs lost during the long recession and then some. But by several measures, the city’s recovery has left black New Yorkers behind. More than half of all of African-Americans and other non-Hispanic blacks in the city who were old enough to work had no job at all this year, according to an analysis of employment data compiled by the federal Labor Department. And when black New Yorkers lose their jobs, they spend a full year, on average, trying to find new jobs — far longer than New Yorkers of other races. Nationally, the employment outlook for blacks has begun to brighten: there were about one million more black Americans with jobs in May than there were a year earlier, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. But that is not the case in New York City, where the decline in employment since the recession began here, in 2008, has been much steeper for blacks than for white or Hispanic residents, said James Parrott, chief economist for the Fiscal Policy Institute, a liberal research group. One problem, said David R. Jones, the president and chief executive of the Community Service Society of New York, is that blacks were overrepresented in fields that suffered the most in the downturn, including government agencies, construction and manufacturing. “It’s being in the wrong place in the economy, so the recovery is not trickling down to these workers,” Mr. Jones said. Kevin Starkes, 53, who is black and lives in the South Bronx, said he had been trying for about 10 weeks to find work as an accountant. “Employers are getting more for less,” said Mr. Starkes, who was at a Workforce1 Career Center in Harlem on Wednesday. “People who used to get a job with a bachelor’s degree now need a master’s. I just think that’s the state of the economy right now.” Four years ago, there were about the same number of discouraged blacks and whites in the city. But since then, the number of discouraged black workers has grown to almost 40,000, from about 13,000, while the number of discouraged whites increased to about 22,000, from about 12,000. Discuss.. Via NYTimes
Rielle Hunter Bashes The Late Elizabeth Edwards In Her New Book As if they both didn’t do enough to this woman while she was still alive. Unbelievable. Rielle Hunter blasts Elizabeth Edwards in her upcoming tell-all book, calling her a “witch on wheels” who drove disgraced former senator John Edwards to have affairs with other women. In the book, “What Really Happened,” Hunter depicts her lover’s cancer-stricken wife as “crazy,” shouting demands at her husband, physically attacking him and callously firing his staffers — all while keeping up the public persona as a “saint,” according to ABC News. Hunter also writes that Elizabeth stalked her after getting wind of the affair, repeatedly calling and hanging up “at all hours of the day and night from various numbers,” Hunter recalls. The one-time White House hopeful’s wife was “bonkers,” Hunter says, because “she had been in denial” about his womanizing. Elizabeth Edwards died of cancer in December 2010. Source
Rielle Hunter Bashes The Late Elizabeth Edwards In Her New Book As if they both didn’t do enough to this woman while she was still alive. Unbelievable. Rielle Hunter blasts Elizabeth Edwards in her upcoming tell-all book, calling her a “witch on wheels” who drove disgraced former senator John Edwards to have affairs with other women. In the book, “What Really Happened,” Hunter depicts her lover’s cancer-stricken wife as “crazy,” shouting demands at her husband, physically attacking him and callously firing his staffers — all while keeping up the public persona as a “saint,” according to ABC News. Hunter also writes that Elizabeth stalked her after getting wind of the affair, repeatedly calling and hanging up “at all hours of the day and night from various numbers,” Hunter recalls. The one-time White House hopeful’s wife was “bonkers,” Hunter says, because “she had been in denial” about his womanizing. Elizabeth Edwards died of cancer in December 2010. Source
Mario Balotelli Wonder Goal Against Ireland In Euro 2012 Against Croatia We have been following Balotelli since he was brought and taught in Italy. He is a beast… and before it’s all said and done, will go down as one of the greatest strikers ever. We know the racism has been playing mind tricks on the kid… and this special goal he laid down today should change all that: Antonio Cassano and Mario Balotelli fired Italy into the quarter-finals of Euro 2012 after a tense victory over the Republic of Ireland. The AC Milan striker headed home from Andrea Pirlo’s 35th-minute corner before substitute Balotelli added a second at the death to finally kill off Ireland’s brave resistance. Spain’s 1-0 win over Croatia in Gdansk meant the reigning champions topped Group C, but Italy went through in second place. On a night when only victory would do for Cesare Prandelli’s men, they came up with the goods against an Ireland side whose exit from the competition was confirmed last week. But while Italy dominated for long periods, they were unable to find a way past the green shirts for a second time to leave the Republic, led by winger Damien Duff on his 100th appearance for his country, in with a chance until Balotelli eventually calmed the nerves. Giovanni Trapattoni’s side, who had midfielder Keith Andrews sent off late on, staged a late blitz on the Italian goal which came up only just short, and although they restored some of their battered pride, they will return to Dublin tomorrow having failed to collect a single point. Duff and his team-mates ran out wearing black armbands to mark the 18th anniversary of the shootings of six men in Loughinisland, County Down, as the victims watched the national team play Italy at the 1994 World Cup finals in the United States. That day, Ray Houghton’s goal secured a famous victory over the Italians, and the latest generation set out in determined fashion in an attempt to repeat the feat. They might have taken the lead straight from the kick-off when Kevin Doyle ran on to Pirlo’s careless pass, but defender Giorgio Chiellini dispossessed him before he could shoot. Ireland safely negotiated the opening five minutes which had previously proved so problematical in the tournament, but as the deep-sitting Pirlo started to pull the strings, found themselves having to defend for dear life. But where that had been beyond them in their opening two games, this time they found the resilience and organisation which had brought them to the finals. The two sides traded blows in their own particular fashions, the Italians stylish and patient, the Irish more direct and abrasive, but with neither goalkeeper being called upon at all. Richard Dunne and Sean St Ledger both had to get in good blocks to prevent Antonio Di Natale from troubling Shay Given, and the Leicester defender had to be on his toes to dispossess the same man as he threatened to carve his way into the penalty area once again. But with 10 minutes of the first half remaining, Italy started to turn the screw. Glenn Whelan’s misplaced pass allowed Cassano to pick out Di Natale and when he rounded Given on the right side of the penalty area and shot from a tight angle, St Ledger once again came to the rescue on the line. But the reprieve was only temporary and after Given had conceded a corner by spilling Cassano’s snapshot, Prandelli’s men edged ahead. Pirlo’s near-post delivery was met with a glancing header by Cassano and although Given got a hand to it, he could not keep the ball out of the net. The sense of relief among the Italian fans, who were dwarfed in number by their Irish counterparts, was palpable, and will have been shared both on the pitch and the bench. However, Prandelli’s players returned knowing they still had to get through another 45 minutes and hope things elsewhere continued to go for them if they were to progress. It would have been 2-0 within three minutes of the restart had St Ledger not once again denied Di Natale with a vital block, and Given had to get down well to keep out Cassano’s side-footed effort seconds later with Italy looking to kill the game off. Daniele De Rossi curled a 51st-minute shot over the angle of bar and post with Ireland looking more open than they had at any point until then. But there was a flicker of hope for the Republic when Robbie Keane forced Ignazio Abate to concede a corner which Dunne headed wide. Given had to repel another Di Natale effort at his near post with 55 minutes gone, but Andrews tested Gianluigi Buffon from distance for the first time on the hour. Sensing that their time had come, the Republic launched a sustained assault on the Italian goal, prompting Prandelli to introduce wild card striker Balotelli with 15 minutes left on the clock. But Buffon had to be at his best to keep out Andrews’ drilled 79th-minute shot from Duff’s back-heeled free-kick, with Ireland throwing everything they had at Italy. However, it all turned sour at the death as Andrews, who had earlier been booked for a foul, received a second yellow card for dissent seconds before Balotelli hooked home a Pirlo corner to secure the win. Turn the page to see the go ahead magic goal he put in today in Euro 2012.
