GOP Holds "We Did Build This" Rally

Heather Wilson

Roswell Daily Record - That was the message propelled countrywide, Wednesday, by Victory 2012, the nationwide campaign to elect Gov. Mitt Romney president. The Romney campaign held 24 “We Did Build This,” events in 12, mostly swing states, in response to comments made by President Barack Obama at a campaign event in Roanoke, Va., on July 13. Obama, touching on the government’s role in aiding entrepreneurs, said at the campaign stop, “Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” “We didn’t build it? Well I’m trying to figure out who did,” said Jim Mannatt, owner of Mannatt and Co. Realtor. Joined by wife Marilyn, Mannatt spoke to an audience of area Republicans, as a small-business owner of a real estate company with five employees, and two small energy companies. “When your leadership comes from the public sector, and has no experience in making a payroll, or meeting the responsibilites of the private sector, and never had a job in the private sector, that tells us as Americans and residents of Chaves County how dangerously out of touch our leadership in Washington is with what goes on in America on Main Street that makes this country great and creates jobs,” he said.In addition to Mannatt, former congresswoman and GOP U.S. Senate candidate Heather Wilson spoke at the Roswell event, hosted at the Volunteer Center, 1400 W. Second St. Wilson, who previously owned a small business in Albuquerque, protested Obama’s desire to curtail the Bush-era tax cuts for Americans making more than $250,000 annually. Citing an Ernst & Young study, Wilson said, “That tax increase alone here in New Mexico would result in another 4,300 lost jobs. If you want to kill job creation in America then you increase taxes on small businesses that are the engine of economic growth in America. I think it’s time we send some people to Washington who believe in small business, who believe in economic growth, and who don’t want to manage America’s decline, but build another American (century) and that’s what I’m going to do in Washington.” Read More News New Mexico

GOP Holds "We Did Build This" Rally