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Monday, October 8, 2012
Romney’s son visits Madison By Ben Siegel The Daily Cardinal
Mitt Romney’s oldest son Tagg Romney spoke to roughly one hundred College Republicans at State Street Brats Friday, responding to comments made by President Barack Obama up the road on Bascom Hill and continuing his family’s trend of speaking publicly about Romney’s “warmer side.” A senior adviser for both Romney presidential campaigns, Tagg, 42, has campaigned extensively for his father in Wisconsin, arriving in Madison after a similar Marquette University event. Tagg was quick to respond to President Barack Obama’s accusation made on Thursday that his debate opponent Wednesday night “couldn’t have been Mitt Romney” because of discrepancies between debate comments and established platform positions. Tagg said the president’s words distorted the image of who Mitt Romney is. “They try to paint this per-
son who doesn’t exist,” he said. “He’s a good man who cares about this country.” Tagg pointed to a time in 1996 when his father closed Bain Capital’s office in Boston and brought his whole staff to New York City for six days where they helped find the missing daughter of a partner. “He changed that girl’s life,” Tagg Romney said. “It was just one example that [my father] goes beyond just saying, ‘tell me what I can do.’” In another intimate moment, Tagg said his father decided to run again after he and his mother, Ann Romney, implored him to think about his grandchildren and their future. “The reason why my dad is running is to try and help young people…the debt they’re inheriting, the weak economy and job market,” he said. “He cares about these kids.” Like Obama, he stressed the importance of the youth vote in
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Post-debate poll shows Romney catching Obama By Adam Wollner The Daily Cardinal
A new poll released Saturday suggests Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s strong performance in last Wednesday’s debate generated a boost for him in Wisconsin. According to the latest survey from the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling,
President Barack Obama leads Romney by just two percentage points, 49 percent to 47 percent, in Wisconsin. In a PPP poll from two weeks ago, 52 percent of those surveyed said they planned to vote for Obama compared to 45 percent for Romney.
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Forty-second annual Great Midwest Marijuana Harvest Festival participants march Sunday from Library Mall to the Capitol without any interference from the Madison Police Department.
Mayor repeals police overtime fee for Marijuana Harvest Festival By Sam Garigliano The Daily Cardinal
The 42nd annual Great Midwest Marijuana Harvest Festival concluded a weekend’s worth of events with a march up State Street Sunday after Mayor Paul Soglin repealed a mandatory additional fee for police overtime. The Harvest Festival began as a spontaneous anti-heroin and pro-marijuana demonstration in 1970 and has continued as a planned event with live music and speakers. Ruth Reifeis, one of the event’s coordinators, said Soglin issued an order Friday stating police could only suggest additional police presence but could not deny anyone a permit if they refused to pay the extra fee. If police had acted upon the event’s lack of a permit, participants would have had to march on the sidewalks instead of State
Street, greatly inconveniencing anyone who was not involved, according to Reifeis. Despite the initial concern over police involvement, many were surprised to see the event go off without any interference. Pete Marrero, a vendor who attended Harvest Festival for the first time this year, said he was impressed by the absence of police confrontation at the event. “The crowd was extremely positive, and I loved the fact that there [were] no issues with any police or any kind of negative situations,” Marrero said. Douglas Prell, another vendor, said even if police were to attempt to shut down the event, it would have been difficult. “It’s an unstoppable kind of thing,” Prell said. “Hopefully it stays that way.” University of WisconsinMadison alumnus and event
organizer Dan Goldman said the media’s coverage of the permit conflict attracted more attendees to the event. “The crowd was tremendous, the vendors were amazing, the bands and speakers were great, but the weather was a little chilly,” Goldman said. Reifeis said another group, the Madison Area Peace Coalition, decided to march Saturday without paying the additional police presence fee, which set an example for not just the Harvest Festival but for all activists wanting to use public property to exercise First Amendment rights. “All of a sudden it broadened the dialogue,” Reifeis said. “It wasn’t just those troublesome nuisances who are potheads again. It was everyone, and they rescinded it for everyone thanks to the mayor.”
Woman texting while driving kills prize-winning cow
Graphic by Angel Lee
The most recent Public Policy Polling results show Barack Obama’s lead over Mitt Romney shrinking after the first debate.
Police said texting while driving led to the death of a 2012 World Dairy Expo prize-winning Jersey cow on Saturday night. An incoming text message diverted a 26-year-old woman’s attention while she was driving east on the 2600 block of the Beltline Highway at approximately 9:44 p.m., according to
Madison Police Department Sgt. Paul Jacobsen. Jacobsen said in a statement the woman swerved left and hit a cattle trailer, carrying eight World Dairy Expo prize-winning Jersey cows, also heading eastbound. The driver of the pick-up truck hauling the cattle trailer was unable to maintain control and the
truck, trailer and cows overturned in a ditch, according to Jacobsen. Other World Dairy motorists who witnessed the collision safely led seven of the cows to safety, but one cow did not survive the crash, according to a police report. Neither driver was injured, but police cited the woman for inattentive driving, according to Jacobsen.
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