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...Tuesday, Republican Acting Gov. Jane M. Swift announced she would not seek election because of family commitments. Mitt Romney entered the race hours afterward. Romney, a former Republican senatorial candidate and 2002 Olympic organizer, is also a 1975 graduate of the Harvard Law and Business Schools...
...effort to alleviate Massachusetts’ worsening budget crunch, last Thursday Acting Gov. Jane Swift proposed cutting $10 million from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst budget. This ill-advised decision threatens to negate the advances the Massachusetts public university system has made and to jeopardize the status of UMass-Amherst as one of the nation’s premier public universities...
BOSTON—The Massachusetts gubernatorial race was a veritable revolving door yesterday, as Mitt Romney entered the race just hours after Acting Gov. Jane M. Swift (R) announced she would not run for Governor...
Swift, who on Monday received support from former Gov. William F. Weld ’66, gave no prior indication of her wavering commitment to the race...
...tosses her Easter Bonnet in the ring, could Tipper Gore make it? On the upside, she'd attract national attention and would be swimming in money and name recognition. But so would her likely opponent, former Gov. Lamar Alexander. The conventional wisdom is that Tennessee has drifted to the right and is inhospitable for Democrats, but the state remains closely divided and her charm is considerable. If she wins, there's nothing to preclude Al from running for President in '04. Ted Kennedy served in the Senate while brother John was in the White House. Meanwhile, even if she doesn...