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Bezjian’s favorite photograph captures Rlickman about to shake hands with W. Mitt Romney outside the State House, teasing the gubernatorial candidate about whether a clown like him could get a job in Romney’s administration...
Rlickman’s signature is scrawled across the photograph, above the words, “Leo’s Diner did not endorse Mitt Romney but did endorse the clown!!! (Perry the Hobo...
Under the 2004 budget, Massachusetts towns will lose a total of $52 million in state aid. Although Romney said he would not cut a single city’s budget by more than 10.5 percent, many municipalities have complained that the cuts are even more severe. Decreases in this state aid to municipalities are expected to strike school districts especially hard, and yet Romney has separately proposed cutting the state’s funding of special education...
...Romney also proposed to save $60 million by restructuring health and human services in Massachusetts. His plan has met opposition from advocates for the poor, elderly and ill, who say that that Romney’s savings will come at the expense of services including Medicaid and nursing care. Their arguments are convincing, as Romney has already announced that he will close 36 “underutilized” health and human services offices, which will inherently reduce access to these services...
With his promise not to raise taxes, Romney has ruled out a more equitable way of generating revenue: increasing the progressive income tax by reversing Massachusetts’ tax rollbacks of the mid-’90s. But like his promise to save the state more than $2 billion, Romney’s refusal to raise taxes may be especially harmful to the state. That Romney is sacrificing the welfare of the people of Massachusetts for the sake of his campaign promises is a true sign of poor leadership...