HipPoindexter -> RE: Mitt Romney (1/28/2014 6:15:59 PM)
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ORIGINAL: mnottertail Mitt's old man was fairly ok, a little too trusting, he bigged up the size of Govt in Michigan, gave them their first state income tax, and was big into volunteerism and civil rights. Worked on Smoot-Hawley. Worked for better conditions for working men with labor leaders in WW2, hammered the FHA for housing for the poor, and the desegregation of housing and a move to get blacks out of the ghetto and into the suburbs. On the bad side, he did time as a lobbyist, and oversaw HUD and FHA when there was some deep skinning of black folk from guys associated with GMA and the FHA. His kid was pretty much a mutt. One weird part about rereading Hunter Thompson's Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 during Romney the Younger's own hilariously flailing campaign last time around was getting to the few short references HST made to Old Man Romney and realizing how much cooler he was than his kid turned out to be.
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