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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHoward "I love my tax cuts" Schultz vows to reject partisan bills as president
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-starbucks-ceo-howard-schultz-vows-to-reject-partisan-bills-as-president/2019/03/13/91e6b8ae-45ae-11e9-90f0-0ccfeec87a61_story.htmlFormer Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz vows to reject partisan bills as president
By Michael Scherer
March 13 at 2:42 PM
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said Wednesday he would establish an informal partisan veto in Congress if he is elected president, pledging to refuse to sign any bill unless it is supported by members of both parties.
He made the unorthodox proposal, which risks grinding Congress to a halt if Democrats or Republicans are united in opposition to a bill, as he launched a second phase of his effort to drum up support for a possible independent presidential campaign with a policy speech in Miami.
I would not sign any legislation none into law that does not have bipartisan support, Schultz said. We need to be candid with the American people and admit, yes, that both sides have good ideas if we work together.
The speech was the first of a series of policy addresses Schultz plans to make in coming weeks to lay out his vision of a post-partisan presidential campaign. His advisers say he has been encouraged by the reception to his book tour over the last six weeks, despite criticism from many Democrats that he could divide the anti-Trump vote, a notion he rejects.
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Howard "I love my tax cuts" Schultz vows to reject partisan bills as president (Original Post)
dalton99a
Mar 2019
OP
I was just going to post the same thing, I had to Google him to remember who he is.
Snake Plissken
Mar 2019
#5
leftieNanner
(15,188 posts)1. Go the Fuck away Howard.
NOW
EveHammond13
(2,855 posts)2. +1 what a bitter little crybaby he is. just disgusting.
monmouth4
(9,711 posts)3. I already forgot about him. n/t
Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)5. I was just going to post the same thing, I had to Google him to remember who he is.
DeminPennswoods
(15,292 posts)6. What's he polling at?
.01% ? Schmidt and Burton must be laughing all the way to the bank.
wryter2000
(46,122 posts)7. Hasn't he gone away yet?
Post-partisan, my ass.
dalton99a
(81,663 posts)8. Not yet - such an entitled dumb fuck:
JHB
(37,163 posts)9. Give it up for Howard Horseshultz and the Both Sides Band!
Ther's only one side that has spent years slapping away any hand extended in hope of compromise. Pretending that both sides are the problem only further encourages the one that IS.
oasis
(49,440 posts)10. He'll fade away after the first wave of debates. nt
Turin_C3PO
(14,118 posts)11. To hell with anyone
who could divide the anti-Trump vote. Just go the fuck away!!