Here's a story which appeared on the Politico website on October 17, about Eric Cantor's upcoming address the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66173.html. In it, a Cantor aide described how "The speech will zero in on how Washington could help a “a single working mom…a small business owner…and how we make sure the people at the top stay there.”
Four days later, the "text" of Cantor's undelivered speech shows up on The Daily Pennsylvanian: http://thedp.com/r/9c222e3c. Apparently Cantor backed out when he discovered that the school was unable to meet its obligation not to let real people into the room. The "text" describes how Cantor's family pulled itself up by the bootstraps from its humble beginnings. Not a word about making sure "the people at the top stay there."
So I'm curious: Did Cantor actually change his mind about delivering the speech in person because part of the Pennsylvanian contingent of the 99% were there ready to greet him? Or had he no intentions of showing up there in the first place?
What a difference four days can make.
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