His cars probably get better health care than you, too. (Jim Young/Reuters)
In the wake of this "
car elevator" business, I'm beginning to think this Mitt Romney fellow
maybe kinda sucks.
His appreciation of elevators in his capacity as a private citizen didn't show up, however, when he was Governor of Massachusetts. In particular, Romney — like many Republicans — was hostile to requirements for elevators imposed by the Americans Disabilities Act (ADA). [...]
On June 26, 2006 Romney vetoed an improvement project with the price tag of $40,000 with his line item veto. The project would have allocated the money to Woburn Development Authority for improvements to an elevator to meet the standards set in the ADA.
The whole state of Massachusetts couldn't come up with $40,000 to refurbish an elevator so that people with disabilities could use it. By contrast, when Mitt Romney wanted to convince the city of La Jolla, California that his beachfront mansion needed its own private car elevator, he spent $21,000 just on the lobbyist he hired to help make that happen.
A real man of the people, that one. He really "gets" the average American, don't you think?