CAMBRIDGE — Soaring rhetoric touching on themes of inequality and corporate private sector political clout dominated Thursday's "Trump Tax Town Hall" event featuring House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, part of the Democratic Party's push to make the GOP's recent tax overhaul a wedge issue ahead of this fall's midterm elections.
"Think of it this way — there's a dark cloud hanging over the Capitol — it's the GOP tax scam bill," Pelosi said during her opening remarks. "It's a total rip-off on the American people."
A mother who is also director of the mentoring program at a support group for homosexual and transgender youth noticed on Tuesday that a Confederate battle flag appeared as part of a mural at an elementary school in Hartford, Connecticut where her son goes. The ceramic mural was created in 1967 by seventh and eighth graders who traced the history of the American flag along with bits of Connecticut history; the mother complained, and early next morning it was gone, as a custodian popped off the tile that included the flag.
