houston cham hispani chamber of. how important is it that this president wants to get rid of as many regulations as he possibly can. small business, anything that makes scaling our small business is a good thing. tax reform, promises and the rising cost of healthcare under control are anything that allows us to get access to capital is going to be a good proposition. not just for small businesses but for the american economy to thrive. steve: you mentioned the cost of healthcare is rising as it has. has obama about a problem for your company. it has and the many have to carry the burden crease. i go kept getting letters every six months saying my insurance rates were going up. i m hoping that doesn t surprise me anymore. steve: gordon, are you hopeful that this new president can help small business? i am hopeful. i will tell you we are watching everything very
your support, godples you, thank you. [applause] i want to thank all of you for coming out here today. it is a beautiful today. it s always beautiful in somersot! you must think i m not from somerset county if i said that, right? but it is a beautiful day here, it s a chamber of chamber of commerce day in somerset county and let me thank everybody in the community for the cooperation and support and being here and showing up and for well, for being where it all started, for the santorum family. that s why we re here. because our journey, our american journey, started here in somerset county, so it is great to be here, thank you somerset county for coming out here for us. [applause] you know, the most common question i ve had over the past, oh, 20 months was are you running, and the answer
most overtly political explanation to date. regarding $250,000 benefitting the republican party. quote, it s certainly in the interest of the country and of all the shareholders that there be a fair amount of change in washington. and now this other quarter million dollar donation has surfaced. today at news corporation s annual shareholder meeting, they wanted to know why they had given $1 million to the u.s. chamber of, which backs republican. and $1 million more to the republican governor s association. and since then, irs disclosures show they gave another $250,000 to the republican governor s association. that according to think progress. that brings the total to a million and a quarter. as to the question posed, mr. murdoch only offered this. in these two donations that you are speaking of, we judged it to be in the best interest of the company. it has nothing to do with the editorial policies or the journalism, or the films or