Mitt Romney is “turning his back on half the country” said Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick on Sunday's Meet the Press. Patrick, who succeeded Romney as governor, was referring to the Republican candidate's now famous remarks about the “47 percent” of Americans who don’t pay federal income tax.
Patrick said his mother had relied on food stamps and that she worked “to get to a better place, to get her GED, to get a job, to stand on her own two feet. The notion that she, or we, or people like us would be belittled while we needed some help to be able to stand on our own two feet is exactly what Governor Romney is conveying.”
Up with Chris Hayes most recent expansion of food stamps eligibility
decided to “triple down” Up with Chris Hayes.