Friday Follow: Komen Cuts Funding, Romney’s ‘Poor’ Comments, Florida GOP Primary

The Takeaway

This week the Susan G. Komen Foundation cut funding for Planned Parenthood, Mitt Romney made headlines when he said he wasn’t “concerned about the very poor,” and Florida’s GOP Primary went to Mitt Romney, with Newt Gingrich clenching a distant second. This week’s panel is Jeff Yang, writer of the Tao Jones column for the Wall Street journal and blogger at our co-producer WNYC’s political website, It’s a Free Country; Farai Chideya, journalist and blogger at Farai.com; and Ron Christie, Republican political strategist, CEO of Christie Strategies, and former special assistant to George W. Bush.

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