Romney To Pontificate at NoHo Shopping Center, Councilman to Rebuke Right After

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney holds news conference after talking with local business owners at a town hall meeting in Hampton, N.H., Tuesday, July 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter)

Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney will be making a stop in Los Angeles today at a vacant storefront in North Hollywood's Valley Plaza shopping center. Romney is focusing his efforts, at least today, on pointing out how President Barack Obama has failed Californians by not getting enough of us back to work.

"Few Places In America Are More “Stressed Out” Than California, A State Suffering From Rampant Unemployment And A Struggling Economy," says Romney's blog, ahead of a list of issues facing the state, including high gas prices, unemployment, and low income growth paired with data about how much worse things have become under Obama. (Nevermind that the state was run by Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger all that time, too.)

What was better, per Romney? The Reagan years! Jobs, jobs, jobs for everyone. Times were great.

Local leaders are not so impressed with Romney's Reaganmania and his own economic wisdom: "Councilman Paul Krekorian, who represents the region, will deliver a rebuke to Gov. Romney by pointing out the progress now being made on the shopping center and the surrounding area after years of neglect," explains a release issued by Krekorian's office.

Romney's rally is slated for 2:15 p.m., with Krekorian's remarks to follow immediately after, at approximately 2:30.

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By Lindsay William-Ross in News on July 20, 2011 9:20 AM

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khagler

It doesn't make any difference who plays for Team Red and who plays for Team Blue. They're still going to be playing the same game regardless.

Chiropractor San Francisco

Exactly! Politics is different than what it used to be.

Thomas

Romney will make a far better president than President Obaba. Let's face it. Obama has failed. Every policy that he has put into place has brought misery to Americans in one way or another. We gave him a chance, based on his thin resume, and our worst fears have been confirmed. He had a lot of hope, but little experience to weather the storm.

It's time for a man who has spent his entire career SUCCESSFULLY turning around difficult businesses, government problems - even the Olympics.

Romney 2012

Scott Michaels

Yes, turning around businesses by laying off workers! Romney is a job destroyer, not a job creator! All he cares about is making money for his rich cronies! And wasn't the Salt Lake City Olympics he headed the one that was so corrupt it damaged future US bids?

The Ugly American

Romney was brought it after the scandal broke to reorganize the SLOC and brought it back from financial ruin.

Nice try, though.

brainylagirl

But seriously, though, can we please stop harkening back to Reagan to find our way in the here-and-now? Reaganomics was based in Cold War strategy that poured vast sums of money into defense spending (read: gov't contracts that DoD and Pentagon now feel entitled to and not trimmed back on since) and prestige projects (like NASA). Furthermore, manufacturing and heavy industry, while somewhat diminished, had not yet bled out to developing countries as a result of globalization. We may have crushed the Soviets in the Cold War, but in terms of 21st century economics, China has come back and beat us at our own game. We must focus on the real crises in public education, access to good health care, poverty (hunger/housing), consumer & student debt, rather than the boondoggle "national debt" issue. Don't forget that under Reagan, we saw what was then considered an astronmical rise in national debt ($1 trillion in '80s dollars) and the exorbitant widening of the gap in wealth between the majority of Americans in the so-called "middle class" and the super-rich. As long as we keep looking back to ahistorical, decontextualized policy and strategy for answers, instead of reading the past for our missteps, we will never find a new vision for our country in this post-Cold War global marketplace, and our people will suffer.

Laura Lutrell

Not to mention all of the Reagan fueled union busting & denial of vital services for our veterans...

brainylagirl

that's not just waffling, that's BELGIAN waffling.

[NB, i wrote a longer, more serious response to this, but then a technical glitch lost my comment.]

LA_Golem

Shame on L.A. for hosting a Republican! This is Los Angeles. This is California. No Republicans allowed. baaaa

jrb

Mitt Romney's record on job creation. Massachusetts ranks 47th out of 50 states.

http://www.politifact.com/trut...

Andy Sternberg

could anything be shadier than reforming health care to provide for nearly all of Massachusetts and then refusing to take credit for it?

South Bay Scoot Club

Sorry, but if you look at unemployment numbers, Romney is right. 9.2% now??? Reagan never had that high of an unemployment rate, even after inheriting the worst recession since the Great Depression because of Carter (number prove this too, what Obama says notwithstanding)