Gov. Romney opposed kosher meals for poor Jewish nursing home residents [View all]

[DesertRat]

This was in the NY Post a few days ago, but this is the first I've seen of it. It show's Mitt's heartless, insensitive treatment of not only the poor in nursing homes, but of their religion.

Mitt Romney is getting heat for a 2003 veto he cast as governor of Massachusetts to reject $600,000 in additional funds for poor Jewish nursing-home residents to get kosher meals.

At the time, Romney said he nixed the funding of about $5 per day because it “unnecessarily” would lead to an “increased rate for nursing facilities” — even as kosher nursing homes were complaining that state-funding-formula changes could force them to close their kitchens.

“I was outraged,” Jeffrey Goldshine, the retired CEO of a company that operated a kosher facility in Massachusetts, told The Post yesterday.

“For the elderly Jewish residents of a nursing home that have always been kosher — they should be entitled to continue.”

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/romney_rapped_for_kosher_cut_UCfv1rYHxrr1CgIP2OPyRO