Romney Announces Senate Run (Democrats, Americans, school, party)
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It looks like Trump Republicans are shaking in their boots from the mainstream. This makes me happy. Shows that Americans don't want Trump Republicans at all.
I think that is definitely true of Utah Republicans, but not necessarily the rest of the country. Trump's performance in the Utah primary was disastrous (after he questioned Romney's credentials as a Mormon) and although he won the state over Clinton in the general election, he fell far short of a majority. Utah has a moralistic culture, is urbanized, demographically young and well educated - not the president's favorite type of audience.
"Former Massachusetts governor and one-time Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is running for the U.S. Senate in Utah, he officially announced this morning."
Romeny is a bit of an odd case on residency. He lived in Ma for most of his main professional career (Bain) but has had ties (and homes) In Utah, California, Michigan and New Hampshire. Scott Brown's 'move' was much odder. My understanding is that Romney really only maintained his Massachusetts residence via a condo when he launched the second presidential run. I guess they figured it was better to run from there since he had been governor.
His relationship to Utah is stronger than Clinton to New York, Brown to NH and the various other head scratchers.
ETA- that stint in Utah coincided with him taking over the Salt Lake City Olympics.
Yup.
While I don't know it for a fact, I think his church's leaders called out to Mitt to come and help once it became obvious that without some strong financial leadership, the Olympics would fail to be ready on time. That would have been an international calamity of the worst kind to the Mormon's missionary efforts.
I also think it was the first time Mitt actually became close to his Mormon roots. His father George had always been closer to Utah than his children were until then.
It's interesting to see how relaxed Mitt is there now; he's not as stiff and awkward as he was in places like New Hampshire when he's in the little towns in Utah or in the surrounding states where there are a lot of Mormons around him.
He resided in Mass for 30 years before he ran for governor.
He also had a summer home in NH and a home for winter ski vacations in Utah.
Romneys pulled up Boston roots in 2008 and relocated their primary residence to California and split time in Utah.
Note my earlier posts. From 1999-2002 he filed taxes as a part time MA resident and took a $54K tax benefit reserved for Utah residents. MA also requires gubernatorial candidates to be full time residents for the 7 years prior to running. As such, he was not a resident of MA.
IMHO, he chose MA to start his political career because it would be the easiest place to do so due the recent string of R's holding the office. Utah would've required him to displace other R's, CA would have impossible, and NH would have laughed him away as a flat lander.
It seems many of our failed Republican MA Senate candidates take up residency in other states for Senate runs there. Scott Brown moved to NH to run (lost to Shaheen) and now Romney moves to Utah to run.
In the case of Romney that isn't quite what has happened. Scott Brown did it just prior to his run for senate, about like Clinton did in NY just prior to her run. Romney has lived in Utah for the past 2 years. I doubt he moved there just to run, eventually for senate.
"Former Massachusetts governor and one-time Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is running for the U.S. Senate in Utah, he officially announced this morning."
I was looking forward to McCain's 'departure' but now Romney will take that old RINO's place. Both want illegal cheap labor for Big Business.
If he votes against Trump out of revenge, it shows he only cares about himself and not his constituents, a typical career politician.
I fully expect him to be a constant thorn in Trump's side. His actions during the election were unforgivable - and I hope he loses. But it doesn't look likely.
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