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...egregiously transparent publicity stunt last week, Massachusetts Gov. W. Mitt Romney told a packed auditorium at Murdock Middle-High School, “By testing our students, we’re testing ourselves as educators and administrators and even political leaders to see where we are failing.” He had gone to Winchendon—which is about 70 miles from Boston, near the New Hampshire border—to tout his education policy, pose for the cameras and demonstrate how he harbors no hard feelings toward the school, despite the state Board of Education?...
...Romney avoided explicitly mentioning the school’s underperformance—ostensibly his reason for visiting—instead speaking in euphemisms of the need for a “special partnership” between the school and the state. Rather than providing the Winchendon community with concrete plans for improving the school, he waxed poetically on the dangers of drugs, tobacco and teen pregnancy. Later, when pressed by reporters, the governor plugged his full-day kindergarten initiative and pledged support for finding alternative ways to help schools educate disruptive students...
According to Gov. W. Mitt Romney, the 180-day stay was a subtle invitation to the legislature to pass a Vermont-style “civil union” law—a “separate but equal” alternative to marriage. But Romney and other radicals want to go even further and amend the state constitution to ban not only same-sex marriage, but civil unions as well. Although a post-Goodridge poll showed that 53 percent of Massachusetts voters oppose such action, conservative activists are already beginning a propaganda campaign to drive the amendment through...
...long-awaited repeal, the Massachusetts legislature voted on Nov. 19 to lift the 200-year old ban on Sunday liquor sales. Massachusetts Gov. W. Mitt Romney is expected to sign the legislation into law, allowing immediate Sunday sales for anxiously awaiting alcohol consumers...
Mass. Gov. W. Mitt Romney and other state leaders have said they want to reserve marriage for heterosexual couples but allow civil unions with all the legal benefits of marriage for gay couples...