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Romney donor at center of 'pink slime' controversy
Source: Politico
Romney donor at center of 'pink slime' controversy
By ALEXANDER BURNS | 3/29/12 2:24 PM EDT
The company at the center of a national controversy over ammonia-treated beef byproducts – known in the media as “pink slime†– is headed by a major donor to Mitt Romney’s political action committees.
Beef Products Inc., which has suspended operations at several plants due to criticism of its products, was founded by Eldon Roth – a prominent Midwestern businessman who has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to pro-Romney groups.
Roth hosted a fundraiser for Romney in Sioux Falls last fall, according to the Associated Press. And the Washington Post reported last year that Roth and his wife, Regina, cut $190,000 in checks to Romney’s network of state-level PACs in 2010.
http://m.vcstar.com/news/2011/oct/19/romney-speech-touts-ability-as-video-rips-perrys/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-gop-hopefuls-a-race-before-the-race/2011/01/28/ABbgd5Q_story.html
He has also donated to a number of other Republicans, including John Thune and Tim Pawlenty. In Romney’s book, “No Apology,†he described Roth as an American success story for having started out in a “blue-collar job in a cold storage plant, before coming up with a cold-storage idea that made him a successful businessman with a “very large jet.â€
Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/03/romney-donor-at-center-of-pink-slime-controversy-119087.html
Um, yeah, millionaire kpete, but you forgot a little something you dipshit Democrats leave out of the story. Here, let me help you, linking to one of your own lefty rags: (http://www.democraticunderground.com/101485746)
USDA Approves Pink Slime for Public School Lunch Program
Susanne Posel Mar 15th, 2012 0 Comment
Susanne Posel
Occupy Corporatism
March 15, 2012
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will continue to order fake, ammonia-laced product for use in its National School Lunch Program (NSLP), a taxpayer-funded government food program that provides lunches low-income students. The pink slime in question was first brought to the public’s attention through the 2008 documentary Food, Inc. The corporation, Beef Products International (BPI), of South Sioux City, Nebraska is where most of the nation’s supply of pink slime is produced. The product is a Frankenstein mixture of:
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Gee, I wonder whose watch this was done under...hmmmmmmmmmm.....COULD IT BE THIS GUY? (http://occupycorporatism.com/usda-approves-pink-slime-for-public-school-lunch-program/)
(http://asterling.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341ed39853ef014e8b0bc7b4970d-800wi)
Looks like your Messiah approves.
STFU, rich woman.
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Looks like your Messiah approves.
STFU, rich woman.
Hey, pink slime is made from some of the table scraps from those $100 a pound steaks the president and Moochelle feast on...the DUmmies should feel blessed.
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Hey, pink slime is made from some of the table scraps from those $100 a pound steaks the president and Moochelle feast on...the DUmmies should feel blessed.
Kind of looks like Michelle's tongue, if you ask me:
(http://www.takepart.com/sites/default/files/styles/tp_content_wide/public/pink-slime_0.jpg)
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Kind of looks like Michelle's tongue, if you ask me:
(http://www.takepart.com/sites/default/files/styles/tp_content_wide/public/pink-slime_0.jpg)
I hear cow tongue is a real delicacy....does being Black Angus make it even better?
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I thought it was about this pink slime:
(http://totallytop10.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/river-of-slime.jpg)
I wouldn't be surprised if he was blamed for that too.