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Romney was worse than useless for the Bay State. He saw his governorship there as a stepping stone to running for POTUS, nothing more.
The only thing he accomplished that was noteworthy was the universal healthcare bill and that was because of Ted Kennedy.
Other than that?
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Romney clearly did not relish having to work with a Legislature that was 85 percent Democratic. He pushed hard during his first two years as governor to boost the number of Republicans on Beacon Hill. But that effort was a failure; Republicans ended up losing seats in the midterm elections.
Romney gave up on party building. "From now on," he told The Boston Globe, "it's me-me-me."
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Romney issued some 800 vetoes, and the Legislature overrode nearly all of them, sometimes unanimously.
Massachusetts’ national ranking leapt from the 29th highest in unemployment when Romney took office to the 18th by the end of his term.
Unemployment in Massachusetts rose during Romney’s first year from a rate of 5.6 percent in January 2003, when he took office, to a peak of 6.0 percent in mid 2003.[66] It then steadily declined over the remainder of his term, ending at 4.6 percent in January 2007.
When he took office in early 2003, the nation as a whole was still suffering the effects of the early 2000s recession. Massachusetts was losing manufacturing jobs, and, with an economy heavily dependent on the technology sector, had been badly shaken by the dot-com bubble collapse.
Romney couldn't turn the economy around in Massachusetts when 46 other states were thriving. Even Post-Katrina Louisiana was able to spur more job growth than Massachusetts.
Romney is also losing Massachusetts badly. No wonder. His economic policies made Mass one of the weakest states on job creation.
Romney hasn't told America that he looked at polling in 2006 and saw that he was down 16 points to his opponent. Instead of even attempting to correct all of the damage he caused, he decided not to run and then threw Mass under the bus.
This Vietnam dodging, job-killing, non-Christian, flip flopping coward is the WRONG choice for America.
The country was emerging from a recession when Romney took office. Remember that little thing called the dot com bubble? Massachusetts was crushed by that and those jobs were never expected to come back. Who cares about facts though when you can have talking points......
That's a load of BS!!!! Obama has been obstructed every single inch of the way as a leader. The GOP are world class TRAITORS in this regard. They care far more about trying to bring the president down than they care about the good of their country. It's just so obvious even a blind person can see it. Policies the GOP was always in favour of are all of a sudden so wrong that they vote 100% against. I have less than zero respect for these idiots. They really should start using the slogan that all right wing Europeans used before WW2. "Class before country". That fits the GOP to a T.
Those darn obstructionists. Which party had a majority in both chambers for Obama's first two years anyway? Can you remind me? What did Obama spend that time focusing on? Was it the most important issue- the economy?
Those darn obstructionists. Which party had a majority in both chambers for Obama's first two years anyway? Can you remind me? What did Obama spend that time focusing on? Was it the most important issue- the economy?
Yep, and you know dirty harry brought every single vote, to a vote....
So, why didn’t Mitt Romney run for a second term as governor of Massachusetts?
He would have lost. And, not just lost by a little. He would have been creamed.
Romney won his first term with about 49% of the vote. After 4 years in office he had a 30% approval rating–30%.
You can’t blame this on Romney being a Republican. Massachusetts, when it comes to electing governors, is friendly to Republicans. For 16 straight years Massachusetts elected nothing but Republican governors (Weld, Cellucci, Swift, and Romney).
Yet, it only took one Romney term to destroy this Republican popularity streak.
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