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Related: About this forumNuns Challenge Romney To Spend A Day With Them To Learn About Plight Of America’s Poor
ThinkProgress piece, cross post from GD ~ pinto
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021094654
The group behind the Nuns On A Bus tour that highlighted the ill-effects of the House Republican budget in congressional districts across the country is now setting its sights on the partys presidential candidate, inviting Mitt Romney to spend a day with the nuns to learn about the plight of Americas poorest citizens.
NETWORK, a national Catholic social justice lobby, is inviting Romney to spend a day with Catholic Sisters who work every day to meet the needs of struggling families in their communities, according to a release. The group is specifically targeting Romney a day after his campaign released a misleading ad about welfare reform that Sister Simone Campbell, NETWORKs executive director, said demonize families in poverty and shows Romneys ignorance about the challenges the poor face in America:
Recent advertisements and statements from the campaign of Governor Romney demonize families in poverty and reflect woeful ignorance about the challenges faced by tens of millions of American families in these tough economic times, stated Sister Simone Campbell. We are all Gods children and equal in Gods eyes. Efforts to divide us by class or score political points at the expense of the most vulnerable of our brothers and sisters reveal the worst side of our countrys politics.
Romney has endorsed the House GOP budget plan authored by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). It was that plan, which includes deep cuts to food stamps and other safety net programs that benefit the middle class, that NETWORKs Nuns On A Bus tour targeted, with Campbell and other sisters blasting it as immoral at the tours conclusion in Washington D.C. Romney has also proposed massive tax cuts for the rich that would likely come at the expense of lower- and middle-class families, which would see higher taxes or significant cuts to the programs they depend on.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/08/08/658741/nuns-challenge-romney/
cbayer
(146,218 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)They would point rulers at him and rattle their rosaries, and he would be physically weakened as a result!!!
He wants the Catholic votes of the WINGNUTS, not of the social progressives who have been silenced by the Pope!