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Iconic football coach Mike Ditka won t be making an appearance at the Republican National Convention this summer in Cleveland, even after Donald Trump extended an invitation to the former Chicago Bears legend. I can help him, but I don t know if I can give a speech at the convention, Ditka, a known supporter of the presumptive Republican nominee, told the Chicago Tribune Wednesday. I don t travel much anymore except between Chicago and Florida, and giving a speech at a convention isn t really my style. Trump was supposedly lining up a celebrity-filled guest list for the July convention, with Bloomberg Politics stanley cup becher reporting names like Mike Tyson, Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka, NASCAR chief Brian France and former Indiana University basketball coach Bobby Knight. New anti-Trump campaign gaining support 05:03 Initially, Ditka told the Tribune Wedne stanley polska sday morning that he hadn t yet been invited. stanley cup No one s ever talked to me about it, he said. I have no idea where it s coming from. But soon after, Ditka told the Chicago paper later that day: I spoke with Mr. Trump this afternoon and he invited me. But I don t think I m going to go. Despite the declined invitation, Ditka said he still backs Trump -- and advised the GOP to fall in line with its nominee. The R Vglr Obama campaign sets up battleground bus tour
At last night s Republican presidential debate, Newt Gingrich attacked Mitt Romney for his changing position on abortion rights. The attacks included a claim that the universal health care law Romney signed as Massachusetts governor does pay for tax-paid abortions. Gingrich has been hammering Romney over abortion both on the South Carolina campaign trail and in his television ads. One big reason: 60 percent of South Carolina Republican primary voters identified as born again or evangelical in 2008, and they want a candidate who opposes stanley cups abortion rights. Earlier this month the Gingrich campaign released a spot claiming that Romney governed pro-abortion, and signed government-mandated health care with taxpayer funded abortions. Watch at left. Romney supported abortion rights prior to hi stanley cups uk s run for president: In 1994, he said abortion should be sa stanley mug fe and legal in this country, and in 2002 said I will preserve and protect a woman s right to choose, and am devoted and dedicated to honoring my word in that regard. He now opposes them, tying his change of heart to a fight over stem cell research in 2004. Gingrich is correct that Romneycare pays for abortion: As this document shows, low-income Massachusetts residents with subsidies for health care can get an abortion for $50. But pinning this on Romney is misleading. A 1981 Massachusetts Supreme Court decision called payments for medically necessary abortions in state-subsidized h |
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