PRESS RELEASE from the Democratic National Committee

For Immediate Release
April 3, 2012
 
Contact: DNC Press  
Washington, DC—DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz released the following statement tonight on the results of the Republican primaries in Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington, DC:
 
“Mitt Romney has significantly more work to do before he can become the Republican nominee, and he is doing incredible damage to himself along the way.  His pandering to the extreme right wing of the Republican Party has done him great damage with women, Hispanics, and independents, all of whom will be critical in the general election.  That’s because the policies he advocates would do massive damage to American families who are striving to get ahead.  Just in the past week, Mitt Romney called Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker a ‘hero’ – a man who has turned his back so thoroughly on middle class families, seniors and workers that voters are seeking to recall him from office.  And Romney has accepted the endorsement of and praised Representative Paul Ryan, whose budget proposal – endorsed by Romney - would end Medicare as we know it so that millionaires and billionaires could get a tax break. Ryan's budget, embraced by Romney, would make arbitrary cuts to programs essential to middle-class families like education and clean energy.
 
“Maybe that’s why Mitt Romney and his allies have been forced to spend millions of dollars flooding the airwaves with negative ads against his competition. In Wisconsin alone, Romney and his allies outspent Rick Santorum and his allies by more than 3.5-to-1, and even after all that money the Republican party is still unenthusiastic and having trouble coalescing around their presumptive nominee.  Mitt Romney has pledged his allegiance to the Tea Party and because of this, he will continue to alienate critical general election voters as the Republicans continue their slog to the nomination—which is bad for the Republican Party come November.”
 

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PRESS RELEASE from Democratic Party of Wisconsin

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Contact: Graeme Zielinski, WisDems Communications Director

"Mitt Romney has made it clear after five straight days of campaigning here that his policies would continue with tax giveaways to millionaires and billionaires, while placing the burden squarely on the back of Wisconsin's working families. Romney would give tax cuts to the wealthy at the expense of middle class, his policies would take away rights from women to make their own healthcare decisions and strip away the economic security our seniors rely on.
 
Romney's gaffe-filled romp through Wisconsin included an applause line for de-funding Planned Parenthood, an embrace of the Paul Ryan budget plan to end Medicare as we know it and a story self-described as “humorous” about closing factories that cost thousands of jobs.
 
Like his dear friend Scott Walker, Mitt Romney can't be bothered to acknowledge the real economic pain in Wisconsin caused by some on Wall Street who want to roll back the clock on regulations and write their own rules.

Scott Walker may no longer be governor when or if Romney returns as the nominee, but he can be certain that Wisconsin will remember a candidate whose plan makes drastic cuts to women's health and Medicaid, will end Medicare as we know it, while giving massive tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires.

We look out for our neighbors in Wisconsin and that's why we will reject Mitt Romney this November."