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60 Minutes highlights Obama's broken promise on space program, jobs. Paging Bill Nelson...
 
Marc Caputo - Miami Herald (Editorial)
 
When then-presidential candidate Barack Obama came to the heart of the nation's space program, Brevard County, he promised that he'd protect space-industry jobs in the face of NASA budget cuts under President Bush. Obama name checked one-time astronaut and current Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson as an ally in Congress to ensure it all got done. Take a look around today, and you'll see the results didn't match Obama's rhetoric.
 
Obama, Romney and the Politics of the Space Coast
 
Adam Sorensen - Time
 
In the run up to Florida’s Republican primary, a lot of pixels were spilled on Newt Gingrich’s lunar flight of fancy, a proposal to permanently colonize the moon by 2020. Even with the poor state of federal balance sheets, this kind of pandering to the Space Coast is par for the course. But in light of a gut-wrenching look from 60 Minutes at the current plight of laid-off workers in Brevard County, home of the Kennedy Space Center, it’s worth revisiting what Mitt Romney, the prohibitive nominee, has said about the space program and whether he’ll be able to make an issue of it when the campaign returns to Florida in the fall. In short, Romney hasn’t explicitly promised to bring back the manned space program Constellation, the shuttle’s intended successor that Obama canned, or anything else for that matter. “In the politics of the past, to get your vote in the Space Coast, I’d come here and promise hundreds of billions of dollars,” Romney told voters on Cape Canaveral back in January. “I know that’s something that’s very attractive, very popular, but it’s simply the wrong thing to do.”
 
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