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...Vilsack is an avid runner and ran a marathon in Arkansas in 2005 with the state's then-governor, Republican Mike Huckabee...
...worked to gain an advantage in what consultants call "earned media" - the free, generally friendly local news coverage that a candidate generates by swinging through town. On that front, he's made high-profile visits to the state since 2005 - when he had an off-the-record meeting with then-Governor Jeb Bush, several of whose former staffers work for Romney today. Thursday evening's surprisingly civil G.O.P. debate played to his strengths as well: on camera, Romney came across as prepared, not scripted...
...Then-Governor W. Mitt Romney appointed Flomenbaum—who previously served in the New York City medical examiner’s office—after the Massachusetts office was rocked by state and federal investigations...
...Columbia teams for leading to the destruction of embryos that could develop into human beings. Last year, President George W. Bush vetoed legislation loosening restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. It was the first and only veto of Bush’s presidency. One month earlier, then-Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney made moves to restrict funding for embryonic research in the state, but current Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 announced last month that he intends to reverse these funding limitations. A significant portion of Harvard’s stem cell research is privately...
...houses fall fully or partially within school zones. There is nothing necessarily wrong with the law’s underlying logic, which considers giving minors access to controlled substances a higher crime than simply possessing drugs. The law was sold to the public and the legislature in 1989 by then-Governor Michael Dukakis on the idea that it would punish those who would put drugs into children’s hands. Similar laws have ameliorated the influence of drugs at high schools across the country. Since it’s hard to prove in a court of law that someone...