Monday, August 27, 2012
10:28 AM
Erpenbach, Minneapolis mayor criticize Ryan ahead of send-off rally
JANESVILLE -- State Sen. Jon Erpenbach and Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak took shots at the GOP ticket as an Obama campaign bus tour stopped in U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan's hometown this morning -- coinciding with a rally to send the vice presidential candidate off to the Republican National Convention.
"Wherever they possibly can, they want to privatize," Erpenbach, D-Middleton, said at a press conference at the Obama campaign's Janesville office. He charged that a Romney administration would seek to cut taxes for millionaires and turn over Medicare and Social Security to the private market.
"That's something that we just don't want," Erpenbach said.
Rybak charged that Romney's selection of Ryan "outsourced" the former Massachusetts governor's political core to conservatives and the wealthy, and said that for all the publicity surrounding Ryan, he hasn't had much to show for it in terms of enacted policy.
"He seems like a nice enough guy with a mean-spirited budget," Rybak said.
-- By Andy Szal
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