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Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is taking flak this week for his use of the term "tar baby" while addressing a group of Iowa Republicans on July 29 in a reference to Boston's troubled Big Dig highway project. Was he offensive in doing so? The head of the NAACP, Bruce Gordon, believes the governor "made a bad choice" in using such a term, the civil-rights leader told the Boston Herald. But Romney has his defenders as well, among them a minister in the Nation of Islam. Romney's spokesman apologized on his behalf, saying the governor simply meant...
...maybe taste the fair's famed fried Twinkies. Also planning to visit Iowa in August: 2004 Democratic running mates John Kerry of Massachusetts and John Edwards of North Carolina, Republican Senators John McCain of Arizona and Sam Brownback of Kansas, New York Governor George Pataki and Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney...
Both Patrick and Christopher F. O. Gabrieli ’81, the 2002 Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor, committed to joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)—a pact among several Northeastern states to reduce carbon emissions that Governor W. Mitt Romney opposes...
...Mitt hasn’t sought results,” he said, adding that the governor’s decision to pull out of RGGI was a poor...
Patrick also said that Massachusetts was losing ground to North Carolina and California in biotechnology research. He drew strong applause when he took a shot at Gov. W. Mitt Romney, saying that the governor had refused to fund stem cell research with state money and because he was too concerned with “playing politics...