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BOSTON—At 11:07 p.m. a burst of confetti filled the 1,200-person ballroom at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel to greet Massachusetts Governor-Elect W. Mitt Romney (R), who swept State Treasurer Shannon P. O’Brien (D) about 51 to 44 percent, with 70...
Last night he pushed farther ahead, winning 51 percent of the vote and riding to a comfortable seven-point victory over the current state treasurer.
One Romney-sponsored ad portrays O’Brien, the current state treasurer, as a sleeping “watchdog,” unaware of special interests and Beacon Hill politicians filching the treasury.
O’Brien, the current state treasurer, is the first woman elected to that position and says her fiscal management skills will help her strengthen the state’s economy.
Massachusetts is facing budget, health and education problems at the same time that economic stagnation has caused tax revenues to drop. Though Republican Mitt Romney has trumpeted the fact that he is a “nonpolitician,” the state needs someone on Beacon Hill who has experience...