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Romney Playing Role In Calif. Governor Race
Boston Globe ^ | February 21, 2009

Posted on 02/21/2009 9:26:16 PM PST by Steelfish

Romney playing role in Calif. governor race His support of Whitman could aid ambitions

A victory by Meg Whitman in the race for California governor could deliver Mitt Romney a foothold in a Democratic state. (Noah Berger/Associated Press)

By Sasha Issenberg February 21, 2009

WASHINGTON - From a Lexington office complex, Mitt Romney's political action committee has ensured the former presidential candidate's omnipresence on cable news shows, Republican rally stages, and antistimulus T-shirts, the last available with a $50 contribution to his Free and Strong America PAC.

But for the next year and a half, the center of Romney's political universe will shift west to Sacramento, where key parts of his operation have reassembled on behalf of Meg Whitman, a longtime friend and former business colleague who this month entered next year's Republican primary to become the governor of California.

The former eBay CEO is still readying her headquarters, but it has already become something of a campaign-in-exile for Romney's ambitions, which could include another presidential run in 2012.

His leading fund-raisers and top aides, including one known as the former Massachusetts governor's "sixth son," have already signed on with Whitman. Today Romney will appear with Whitman at the state Republican convention, where he is expected to endorse her.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: 2010; ca2010; cagop; cagov; megwhitman; mittromney; rino; rinoinfestaton; romney
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To: Impy

“You were held in an internment center?

WW2?”


No, the centers were in Washington DC and Virginia.

I mention it on this thread. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2191139/posts?page=28#28


61 posted on 02/22/2009 12:12:47 PM PST by ansel12 ( Am I the only freeper that has been held in an American internment center?)
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To: calcowgirl
It's not government's job to fix or control the economy! That is NOT conservative.

ok Meg wants to reduce the state payroll and cut spending. What is that defined as?

62 posted on 02/22/2009 12:45:53 PM PST by byteback
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To: byteback

Responsible.


63 posted on 02/22/2009 1:04:57 PM PST by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: Carry_Okie
>>>No, it means that because Meg Whitman is a total pro-abortion RINO, that Mitt's commitment to conservatism is as deep as it ever was.

By following that same logic what would have to be said about the appontment of Sandra Day O'Connor?

IMO, passing conservative litmus tests that the greatest and most conservative president of the 20th century can't even pass didn't turn out to well for us this go around.

64 posted on 02/26/2009 8:17:40 AM PST by Rameumptom (Gen X= they killed 1 in 4 of us)
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To: Rameumptom
By following that same logic what would have to be said about the appontment of Sandra Day O'Connor?

An unpleasant compromise with a Democrat Senate that turned out to be a mistake, long term.

IMO, passing conservative litmus tests that the greatest and most conservative president of the 20th century can't even pass didn't turn out to well for us this go around.

We heard that excuse and got Wilson. Wilson begat Davis, and then Schwarzenegger. The latter is doing everything within his power to preclude conservative candidates within the CAGOP.

Tell Meg Whitman no thank you. I'd prefer to allow leftists to take the credit for destructive policy.

65 posted on 02/26/2009 8:54:50 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to manage by central planning.)
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