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| | Mitt Romney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Romney was elected governor of Massachusetts in November 2002 as a Republican, and is among those speculated as being very interested in seeking the Republican nomination for President of the United States in 2008. | | | Romney was heavily involved in attempts to block implementation of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's November 2003 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage. | | | Romney successfully pressured William Bulger to resign as President of the University of Massachusetts (UMass) on September 1, 2003. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney
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| | Romney ready to 'test waters' on Iowa swing - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Mass. - News |
| | Mitt Romney heads to Iowa today for a conference of governors, with his political standing enhanced by a year of aggressive outreach and financial support for Republicans in the gateway state for the 2008 presidential nomination contest. | | | Politics, as much as policy, is on Romney's Iowa itinerary, but the governor, who will become chairman of the Republican Governors Association this fall, said his focus would be on helping other Republican governors with reelection efforts and on laying groundwork for the GOP to regain the governorship in Iowa. |
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http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/07/15/romney_ready_to_test_waters_on_iowa_swing
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| | The Templar Pundit: 2008 Profile: Mitt Romney |
| | Abortion- Mitt is personally opposed to abortion but has been pro-choice as Governor. | | | Romney managed to become the Republican Governor of Massachusetts thought opinion polls indicate the novelty is wearing off on the liberal electorate in that state. | | | Mitt's Kerry-esque position on abortion is not going to impress GOP primary voters. |
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http://thetemplarpundit.blogspot.com/2005/06/2008-profile-mitt-romney.html
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| | Mitt Romney on Abortion |
| | Romney was asked to clarify his position on abortion. | | | Romney disclosed that he became committed to legalized abortion after a relative died during an illegal abortion. | | | Voice your opinions on Abortion or about Mitt Romney in The Forum. |
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http://www.issues2000.org/Governor/Mitt_Romney_Abortion.htm
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| | 2002 Mitt Romney residency issue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Born and raised in Michigan and having graduated from college in Utah, Romney moved to Massachusetts to attend Harvard University to earn an M.B.A. and a J.D., graduating in 1975. | | | In April 2002, after returning to the state and deciding to run for governor, Romney altered his 1999 and 2000 tax returns, changing his residency status for those years to Massachusetts resident from Utah resident. | | | Chapter II, Article II of the Massachusetts State Constitution states that “...no person shall be eligible to this office [governor], unless at the time of his election, he shall have been an inhabitant of this commonwealth for seven years next preceding.” |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney_Residency_Issue
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| | Romney the cover candidate - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Op-ed - News |
| | As a Republican from the bluest of the blue states, he knows he'll have to prove his ideological bona fides to his party's red-state core. | | | But Romney's family history convinces him that most voters are not that shallow. | | | But he has consistently made clear his personal antipathy to abortion, calling it ''the wrong choice" and counseling women within his church not to get abortions. |
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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/06/05/romney_the_cover_candidate
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| | MA Office of the Governor |
| | Romney has made the appointment of women to the state’s courts a priority, and recently asked his Judicial Nominating Council to bring forward the names of more female and minority applicants. | | | April 26- Governor Mitt Romney announced today that he has nominated four women to serve as judges in the Massachusetts trial court system, the largest number of female candidates ever brought forward at one time. | | | If these four women are all confirmed by the Governor’s Council, women will represent 36% of the appointments made by Romney for judicial office, which includes judges and clerk magistrate positions. |
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http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=gov2homepage&L=1&L0=Home&sid=Agov2
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| | Elect Romney In 2008! |
| | Romney, a Republican who may run for president in 2008, has indicated he would sign the bill into law. | | | As governor of a neighboring state for the past four years, Romney is a familiar name to many New Hampshire voters (the Boston media market reaches much of the southern half of the state). | | | Romney's comments came as the Senate began heated debate on immigration reform. |
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http://blog.electromneyin2008.com
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| | The American Spectator |
| | Romney retained the Massachusetts Citizens for Life endorsement because he supported parental-consent laws, opposed taxpayer-funded abortion or mandatory abortion coverage under a national health insurance plan and was against the Freedom of Choice Act that would have codified Roe (later in the campaign, he said might be willing to support another version of the legislation). | | | Romney came out against lowering the age at which minors could obtain abortions without parental consent to 16 (O'Brien took the opposite position) and for a ban on partial-birth abortion. | | | As the 2008 GOP nomination contest approaches, many Americans will be watching to see if Mitt Romney is another abortion waffler, or if he has just been holding back all these years. |
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http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=7798
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| | John J. Miller on Mitt Romney on National Review Online |
| | Gay marriage featured prominently in Romney's 2002 election because everybody knew the Massachusetts supreme court was poised to rule on the matter. | | | One of the leading issues in Romney's race was abortion: O'Brien proposed changing state law to let 16-year-old girls end their pregnancies without parental consent. | | | "Mitt Romney only chooses to run for office from Massachusetts — he doesn't vacation here," grumbled a spokeswoman for the state party. |
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http://www.nationalreview.com/miller/miller200512141539.asp
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| | The American Spectator |
| | Romney's critics point to comments he's made in front of audiences in more conservative states -- most famously he told a South Carolina audience, "Being a conservative Republican in Massachusetts is a bit like being a cattle rancher at a vegetarian convention" -- as evidence that he is insincere on this point. | | | One of the specific reasons Romney gives in his book Turnaround for his decision to take the helm of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City after the bid scandal was the "implied association of the scandal with the standing and character of the state and, further, with the Mormon Church. | | | Practically and pragmatically, that's a statement of fact, and, coupled with his opposition to funding stem cell research, Romney's conversion to an unambiguous pro-lifer might have flown had the Massachusetts Supreme Court not handed down a decision legalizing gay marriage in November 2003. |
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http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=9666
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| | NBC: Is Romney ready for big time? - Politics - MSNBC.com |
| | GOP Chairman Ed Gillespie explained why he chose Romney for the plum, prime-time speaking role on Wednesday night of the Republican Convention, “Mitt is the Governor of the Democratic nominee’s home state. | | | Like it or not, Romney was already thrust onto the national stage because of his stance regarding the controversial issue of same-sex marriage. | | | Political analysts speculate Romney would be under tremendous pressure by the national party to run for that seat because, they say, he would be the only Republican who could win in Massachusetts. |
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http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5831818
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| | <%Title%> - Concord Monitor Online - Concord, NH 03301 |
| | (Romney earned his law degree and an MBA from the school in 1975; Wentworth earned a bachelor's and a master's more than 200 years earlier.) But unlike Romney, Wentworth was never elected. | | | The last royal-appointed governor of New Hampshire, he fled the state during the American Revolution. | | | Both Skowron and Police Chief Brian Black said the town runs as usual when Romney is visiting. |
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http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050731/REPOSITORY/507310400/1037/NEWS04
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| | Mitt Romney for president? - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |
| | Mitt, born in 1947, is a devout Mormon who attended Brigham Young University, then did the four-year program that earns both business and law degrees at Harvard. | | | However, thanks to the state's Supreme Judicial Court, he lives at ground zero in the same-sex marriage debate, and he has pleased social conservatives by opposing resolution of the debate by judicial fiat. | | | Willard Mitt Romney (his first name honors his father's friend, J. Willard Marriott, the hotelier) is the son of a presidential candidate, George Romney, Michigan's governor, 1963-69. |
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http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/opinion/columnists/will/s_283684.html
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| | President Mitt Romney? » Outside The Beltway OTB |
| | Romney is the Republican party’s best hope for the future. | | | Or, to put it in evangelical terms, it might be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for Mitt Romney to win the Republican nomination. | | | The problem is that, should he get the Republican nomination, probably somewhere between 5-15% of voters who would otherwise reliably vote Republican, will just not be able to pull the lever for Mitt. |
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http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2005/12/president_mitt_romney
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| | Mitt Romney csmonitor.com |
| | Romney announced last month that he is not running for reelection, a move widely analyzed as a preliminary step toward a bid for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. | | | Romney downplayed the impact his Mormon faith would have on evangelical Republican voters. | | | Romney ran for governor of the Bay State in 2002. |
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0127/p25s01-usmb.html
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| | Capital News 9 24 Hour Local News HEADLINES Romney for president? |
| | Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney enjoyed some Southern hospitality in a state likely to be key to the 2008 Republican presidential primary. | | | C-SPAN aired his speech to Spartanburg County Republicans live Monday night in its "Road to the White House" series. | | | State Republican Party Chairman Katon Dawson called Romney "one heck of a candidate." |
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http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/headlines?ArID=118816&SecID=33
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| | Mitt Romney vs. the Boys from Boston |
| | Romney also possesses several attributes that would serve any politician well: good looks, a keen intellect (as evidenced by degrees from both Harvard's Business and Law Schools), and an almost preternaturally engaging personality. | | | First, a little less than a year ago, the Massachusetts Supreme Court discovered in the Commonwealth's John-Adams penned state constitution a right for gay marriage. | | | Scion of a prominent family (Romney's father George was president of American Motors Company and later governor of Michigan), Romney enjoyed a spectacularly successful business career as founder and chairman of the highly regarded private equity/venture capital firm Bain Capital. |
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http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/252qhzbc.asp
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| | HealthLawProf Blog: Plan B and Mitt Romney |
| | It almost certainly will become law despite Romney's rejection; both the House and Senate approved it by veto-proof margins, and legislative leaders said they plan to override his veto. | | | Massachuetts Governor Mitt Romney vetoed legislation to expand access to Plan B, the so-called morning after" pill. | | | Romney said that his veto of the bill - which would allow some pharmacists to dispense the pill without a prescription and require hospitals to offer it to rape victims - was consistent with his past statements and that he continued to support contraception. |
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http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/healthlawprof_blog/2005/07/plan_b_and_mitt.html
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| | The American Street » Blog Archive » Mitt Romney, from Massachusetts |
| | Mitt forgets the first rule of politics: you don’t slag those who elected you to office. | | | Mitt Romney is the Republican governor of Massachusetts. | | | He would like to be the president of the United States. |
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http://www.reachm.com/amstreet/archives/2005/11/12/mitt-romney-from-massachusetts
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| | Patrick Ruffini :: 2008 Presidential Wire - Mitt Romney (R) |
| | Report: Romney Out Of State Half The Time | | | Patrick Ruffini :: 2008 Presidential Wire - Mitt Romney (R) White House - RNC - NRSC - NRCC - DoD - CentCom - State - Save Social Security | | | Former senator Grams considers new bid (4 Clicks) |
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| | In 2008, Will It Be Mormon in America? |
| | Mitt Romney went to Brigham Young University (he was valedictorian in the College of the Humanities) before collecting business and law degrees from Harvard. | | | Given his executive personality, Romney would have been miscast as a senator, but he scored points with Republicans for taking one for the team in the nation's most Democratic state. | | | That next candidate just might be Mitt Romney, the Republican governor of Massachusetts. |
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http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/672kwvro.asp
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| | Romney is a Fraud |
| | So imagine our surprise when we learned that Willard Mitt, defender of all that's true and American, tried to award 'tuition-free scholarships' good at any Massachusetts public college or university to more than thirty undocumented immigrants (aka - illegal aliens.) (source: Boston Globe, 12/21/2005) | | | But have you been by the State House lately? | | | Satirically tracking the Fraud Governor and his band of sidekicks. |
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| | Meet Mitt Romney: The man who would run the Bay State |
| | Apart from that, Massachusetts voters don't know much about the new Republican gubernatorial candidate, Mitt Romney. | | | Romney's father, the late George Romney, was a four-term Michigan governor and a 1968 Republican presidential candidate. | | | The Republican primary is April 6, and Romney has already said he won't select a lieutenant governor candidate to run with him. |
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http://www.eagletribune.com/news/stories/20020324/FP_004.htm
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| | Talking Politics Dreaming of Romney |
| | MARCH 1, 2002, SALT LAKE CITY — Fresh on the heels of a triumphant Winter Olympics, Republican multimillionaire Mitt Romney declared yesterday his candidacy for the governorship of Massachusetts. | | | Romney, who ran against Senator Ted Kennedy in 1994 (and gave Massachusetts’s senior senator perhaps the toughest fight of his career), is fully engaged in his role as president of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Winter Olympics. | | | The Democrat who has raised the most money so far, Senate president Tom Birmingham, has a war chest of $2.9 million. |
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http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/talking_politics/documents/02142312.htm
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| | Mitt Romney Rules: An Independent Forum |
| | Secretary of State William F. Galvin predicted that 2.4 million of the state's active voters will cast ballots today, a 70 percent turnout that would rival the historic turnout in 1990's race between William F. Weld and John Silber. | | | Mitt Romney is that kind of leader, the kind of leader Massachusetts needs as governor right now. | | | This site is in no way associated with Mitt Romney. |
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| | Massachusetts Governor Makes His State the Butt of His Jokes |
| | Political observers say Romney may have put himself in trouble for next year, when the "vegetarian convention" has another gubernatorial election scheduled. | | | BOSTON -- Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, exploring a possible presidential run in 2008, has a message for his fellow Republicans. | | | Romney, 58, is a transplant from Michigan who raised his family here and gained prominence as a Boston businessman. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/25/AR2005092501146.html
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| | Mitt Romney 2008 Gear : Good Guys for Bush Republican Shirts Buttons More : CafePress.com |
| | From Governor of Massachusetts to the White House. | | | Although Mitt has not thrown his hat into the ring, we believe that Mitt Romney now has the political experience of being a Fine Republican Governor of Massachusetts as well as the honesty and integrity to be America's next Leader. | | | Mitt Romney now has the political experience as well as the honesty and integrity to be President in 2008. |
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| | The Holy Cow! Candidate |
| | Slouched in his seat, the husky, balding Democrat said, "This will be the kiss of death, but if I had to choose the next Republican president, if there's going to be one it would be Governor Romney." | | | As a conservative Republican in the bluest of blue states—he is in his third year as governor of Massachusetts—Romney embodies intriguing national electoral possibilities. | | | This is the last time I'm going to invite the governor of Pennsylvania to Massachusetts. |
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http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200509/pappu
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| | Lunch With Mitt Romney - CBS News |
| | Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney may be just another white male on the national stage, but he's one step ahead of John Roberts already. | | | That information -- combined with his refusing to roll into his speech without introducing his wife and daughter-in-law -- makes clear that Romney knows the way it is. He doesn't need to get the scoop from John "Neanderthal" Roberts. | | | Introduced as a "compassionate conservative" by former Indianapolis mayor Stephen Goldsmith, Romney presented himself today as a practical problem-solver who got a deficit-ridden commonwealth to show a surplus -- without raising taxes, cutting education, or cutting funds for the homeless. |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/13/opinion/main840025.shtml
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| | Games Saver |
| | (In November, a federal judge dismissed fraud charges in the case against two committee officials; the Justice Department is considering an appeal.) The scandal, said Romney, "dispirited and devastated the psyche of this community and probably the entire Olympic world." There was another problem too. | | | But the graduate of Harvard's law and business schools grabs his hard hat--stamped with the Olympic symbol--in the same way other people who wear business suits grab their briefcases, as if he wouldn't go anywhere without it. | | | In February 1999 Romney became CEO and president of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee (SLOC), a white knight called in to save an organization in disarray and a city in distress. |
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http://www.law.harvard.edu/alumni/bulletin/2002/spring/feature_1-1.html
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| | Politics1 - 2008 Presidential Candidates: Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) |
| | Office of Governor Mitt Romney - Government Site. | | | Politics1 - 2008 Presidential Candidates: Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) | | | Son of the late three-term Michigan Govenor and US Housing Secretary George W. Romney (R), a 1968 candidate for President. |
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| | ProfessorBainbridge.com ®: Mitt Romney for President? |
| | Here was Professor James Dickey's (America's Poet Laureate, wrote and acted in Deliverance) opinion: [Read More] | | | OpinionJournal editor James Taranto is excited about the prospects of Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romneys presumed bid for president. | | | And in that case, Romney may actually be hurt by his image. |
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http://www.professorbainbridge.com/2005/12/mitt_romney_for.html
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| | Americans for Mitt: Mitt Romney for President 2008 |
| | Americans for Mitt: Mitt Romney for President 2008 | | | When Americans for Mitt was launched in late January, Governor Romney was commonly considered to be a second-tier candidate for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. Most so-called experts and analysts figured that Mitt would struggle to gain attention in a crowded field of better-known candidates. | | | Thankfully, more and more people are hopping on the pro-Mitt bandwagon as they become familiar with his background and leadership and his vision for a strong America. |
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http://www.americansformitt.com
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| | News & Features Onward, Mormon soldiers |
| | Mitt Romney’s father, George, a former CEO of American Motors and governor of Michigan, himself ran for president in 1968. | | | The Romney family is to the Mormons what the Kennedys are to the Catholics. | | | Marion Romney, one of Mitt Romney’s cousins, was once a member of the LDS Church’s First Presidency, a triumvirate of the world’s three most powerful Mormons. |
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http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/other_stories/multi-page/documents/04538494.asp
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| | Eight Among Many: W. Mitt Romney |
| | "It's not unlike the clamor of a political campaign," notes Romney, who ran unsuccessfully for Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy's seat in 1994 and whose father, George, was a Presidential candidate and three-time Michigan governor. | | | Romney is courting new corporate sponsors, particularly high-tech companies, to join those big-ticket backers of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics who have returned for 2002. | | | Romney remains confident that the Olympics' ideals are still held in high public - and corporate - esteem. |
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http://www.alumni.hbs.edu/bulletin/1999/october/profiles/romney.html
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| | Salon.com Mitt Romney's mistake |
| | Massachusetts was supposed to be among them, but in mid-December Romney abruptly pulled his state out -- despite the fact that several staffers in his administration had spent two and a half years and more than half a million dollars negotiating and shaping the deal. | | | If they succeed, it'll be a smarting wallop for Republican Gov. Mitt Romney, who is widely expected to run for a spot on the GOP's 2008 presidential ticket. | | | The pact, commonly called RGGI ("Reggie"), commits seven Northeastern states -- Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York and Vermont -- to reducing their carbon dioxide emissions 10 percent by 2019. |
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http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/01/28/muckraker/?source=salon.rss
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| | USATODAY.com - Mass. Gov. Romney's health care plan says everyone pays |
| | Romney sees his plan as part of that mix. | | | Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney re-ignited that debate last month when he announced a plan to expand health coverage to all the state's residents, with a caveat that those who don't buy coverage could face a penalty. | | | Establish a second program called Safety Net Care for residents with incomes up to 300% of the federal poverty level, which is $28,700 for a single person. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/2005-07-04-health-insurance-usat_x.htm
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