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With fema here on the ground at our intelligence center, and the cooperation from the president of the united states has been outstanding. he deserves great credit. mitt romney, on the other hand, cannot run from his declaration about fema during the campaign. the primary campaign. every time you have an occasion that takes something from the federal government and sends it back to the states, that s in the right direction, and if you can go even further and send it to the private sector that s even better. we should take all of what we re doing and say what are the things we re doing that we don t have to do and that s what we have to stop doing. we re borrowing $1.6 million more than we re taking in. we cannot afford to do those things without jeopardizing the future for our kids. it s simply immoral. all that we re doing with the federal government is what he said. today romney held a storm relief event in dayton, ohio, at the same site he planned to hold a campaign rally. the ....
The president canceled all campaign events today and tomorrow. his opponent, mitt romney, said he was canceling all campaign events. this one did stay on the schedule. romney/ryan victory rally. dayton, ohio, october 30th. this was the traveling press pass handed out for the romney event today. it was tweeted out by reporter ari shapiro. the event had previously been planned as a campaign rally. they kept it in the same place as the rally. they kept the event at the same time as the romney. mr. romney appeared with the same celebrity endorsers scheduled for rally and led with the vote for mitt romney biographical video that they play to start their campaign rallies. because they wanted credit for canceling their rallies out of sensitivity to the people suffering from this storm, they went ahead with this one mostly as planned but said they did not want it to be described as a rally. instead they wanted people to call it a storm relief event. they did ask people attending the rally to b ....
System. so, you know, everybody nobody doubts the fact that governor christie and president obama want to have a recovery work as smoothly, as comprehensively, and as efficiently as it possibly can to help these people. if i can go back to you, jonathan capehart. i want to mention, mike viqueira talking about the cynical nature of politics, and suggesting or implying that every day is a political day. well, yesterday we received some criticism for discussing mitt romney s so-called storm relief event in the context of a campaign event. and i was eviscerated by telephone calls and so on. but now it emerges, according to buzz feed, that $5,000 was spent by the campaign to make the display of food look bigger. what s your assessment of what happened yesterday, john? oh, my. a campaign event that was not a campaign event, but was a campaign event. and was funded by the romney campaign, to the tune, no less, of $5,000. ....
Something agreement. it s funny. steve kornacki was saying he thought romney would keep campaigning and the conventional wisdom was that s never going to happen. but i agree with you, martin, hearing him say bring your donation to our victory center and before that still campaigning yesterday, saying people, hey, early vote is still happening. an hour ago they were campaigning. it was billed by the romney campaign as a storm relief event but happening in ohio, as we have just reported the bulk of the damage is not in ohio, although ohio may be touched by this. i thought, richard, you know, we talked about this being time for a national unity. chris christie yesterday, one of romney s chief surrogates, someone who has been vocal in his support for the former governor of massachusetts, had this to say about the president yesterday. yep. appreciate that call from the president. very proactive and i appreciate that type of leadership. i spoke to the president three times yesterda ....
Transportation. the election will take care of itself next week. and with only eight days to go, the election just might have to take care of itself. president obama shut down his campaign activities today. there are no public campaign events scheduled tomorrow for president obama. or vice president joe biden. the romney campaign announced mitt romney will host a so-called storm relief event in ohio tomorrow with nascar s richard petty. and country music s randy owen. if the serious aftermath of this hurricane runs into this weekend then for all practical purposes the candidates may have already made their closing arguments to the voters. what they have to say now may not be heard over the storm coverage. team obama s last public act took place in ohio while the president was in washington. we went to florida last night ....