Morning Reads: Obama Makes Millions Eligible For Overtime; Port Authority Part Of Christie’s Machine
March 12, 2014

Via Moyers & Company:

Good morning — and a happy 67th birthday to Willard “Mitt” Romney! Here are some reads for the morning…

Stat of the day: 515,000 — the number of union members whose political donations equal that of one Koch brother, according to Jonathan Cohn at TNR.

Bring on the lazy punditry –> Republican David Jolly defeated Democrat Alex Sink in a closely watched special election in Florida last night — a rematch is scheduled for November.

“Certain to anger the business lobby in Washington” –> Obama issued an executive order requiring companies to pay overtime to several million workers who were cl...

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