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Mitt: Wife Drives ‘a Couple of’ Cadillacs

In Detroit speech.

Mitt Romney’s effort to make himself appear a man of the people was fudged yet again when he said in a speech to the Detroit Economic Club on Friday that his wife, Ann, drives “a couple of Cadillacs.” In his address at Ford Field, Romney, who was born in Detroit, said he was happy to be back in the cradle of the American auto industry. “I drive a Mustang and a Chevy pickup truck,” the candidate said. “Ann drives a couple of Cadillacs, actually.” The reaction to Romney’s seemingly inadvertent boast about his stable of pricey automobiles wasn’t just a matter of media scrutiny—outside the stadium were hundreds of protesters, many of them members of the United Auto Workers, who were angered by Romney’s 2008 opposition to the auto bailout.