Clinton raps national service cuts Romney joins president to back funding.. (1995)

Boston Globe Archive ^ | 1995

[mnehring]

President Clinton, with Republican businessman Mitt Romney by his side, assailed GOP-controlled congressional panels yesterday for voting to abolish federal aid to the AmeriCorps national service programs, including Boston-based City Year.

Meeting in the Cabinet Room with Romney and other AmeriCorps supporters and members, Clinton blamed partisan politics for the attack on his prized community service initiative.

City Year, which has expanded to seven cities since it was founded in Boston in 1988, formed the model for AmeriCorps. In Boston, City Year involves more than 300 young people whose duties range from painting church fences to working in schools to producing a community newspaper in Roxbury.

[mnehring]

Mittens and Clinton circa 1995 attacking the GOP.

[ken21]

progressive bump.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks mnehring.

Clinton, with Republican businessman Mitt Romney by his side, assailed GOP-controlled congressional panels yesterday for voting to abolish federal aid to the AmeriCorps national service programs, including Boston-based City Year.

"All politics is local." -- Tip O'Neill

[Diogenesis]

Romney - the Magic Backstabbing RINO:
"I'm not running as the Republican view
or a continuation of Republican values.
That's not what brings me to the race.
(Romney Video, accessed 9/19/07)

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"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party
 over to the traitors in the battle just ended.
We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged
 to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support.
Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates
wouldn't make any sense at all.""
--  President Ronald Reagan

[Longbow1969]

If you asked Romney how he feels about that now, he’d pause and give you a long convoluted answer that would consist of meaningless drivel that wouldn’t really answer the question but would leave you thinking he supports cutting the program. If he then went on to win the nomination and you asked him again, Romney would provide another long reply that would leave you thinking he both does and doesn’t support cutting the program. That’s our Mitt! All things to all people, willing to shift even the most fundamental positions as needed - whatever it takes to win political office.

[Saundra Duffy]

“Mittens and Clinton circa 1995 attacking the GOP.”

Well at least he wasn’t stumping for Al Gore all over Texas ala Rick Perry.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Just thinking that if it is such a great idea, then maybe, just maybe, the cities ought to pay for it.