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06-17-2003 "First Responders: How States, Localities and the Federal Government Can Strengthen Their Partnership to Make America Safer" GOVERNOR MITT ROMNEY, COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Before the SELECT COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES on on behalf of The National Governors' Association Mr. Chairman: I appreciate this opportunity to testify before the House Select Committee on Homeland Security and thank you and Ranking Member Turner for seeking the input of Governors in your oversight of this most crucial issue. I would also like to express my gratitude to Secretary Tom Ridge of the Department of Homeland Security, who has worked tirelessly to assist my colleagues and myself in meeting the challenges of governing in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. It is miraculous to see the homeland security apparatus that has sprung up under Secretary Ridge's leadership in the short time since he answered President Bush...

Author Archive Send to a Friend Print Version August 1, 2007 5:00 AM It's Competence, Stupid! Managerial excellence, not ideological purity, is what the GOP primary is all about. By Jim Geraghty N ew York Times columnist David Brooks was wowed by Mitt Romney Friday, offering a rave review of the candidate "talking about his success in business and in running the Olympics. He was talking about how you assemble a team of people with complimentary skills. How you use data and analysis to replace opinion. How you set benchmarks and how often you should perform self-evaluation… It opened up a vista of how government might operate." This brought an unimpressed reaction from a closeted conservative editor at a Washington publication, who thought he heard an echo of another former governor of Massachusetts: Now, come on. Doesn't that sound, more than anything, like a Republican version of Mike Dukakis? "I can make government work. It's not about ...

Proponents of faith and family values need a President who will appoint judges and justices who will follow the law instead of political agendas. Mrs. Long cares about the Constitution and the courts AND faith and values and Mr. Romney appreciates the interrelationship. Mrs. Long says Mr. Romney is the best hope in the fight. I think she's right. LifeNews.com Editor Steven Ertelt's July 27, 2007 article--"Mitt Romney: Only Pro-Life Republican Can Win 2008 Presidential Race"--not only told it like it is, but explained why. It's no surprise that the Democrats will nominate a pro-abortion presidential candidate. When it comes to claiminga constitutional right for a mother to terminate a pregnancy, for any reason or no reason, right up to delivery, by the partial-birth abortion procedure or otherwise, Hillary Clinton. Barack Obama and John Edwards agree, tragically. There are pro-life Democrats, of course, but the pro-abortion Democrats are in control of the Democ...

By Chris Rawlings Article Last Updated: 07/31/2007 09:47:05 PM MDT When Colorado voters head to the polls next year, they might have the chance to elect a Mormon for president. With his strong fundraising totals and steady rise in the polls, Mitt Romney has a good shot at winning the Republican nomination. But some in the media have already decided that Romney either could not, or should not, be president because of his faith. The New York Times ran an especially egregious column by Newsweek editor Kenneth Woodward in April. In his thorough lambasting of Mormonism, Woodward noted that "Among the reasons Americans distrust the Mormon church is Mormon clannishness," and that, "to many Americans, Mormonism is a church with the soul of a corporation." Such talk about Jews would have been justifiably dismissed as tasteless anti-Semitism. Last October, the Boston Globe published what was supposed to be an exposé of Romney's attempt to build a "nationwide net...

washingtonpost.com 's Politics Blog 1. Mitt Romney: The former Massachusetts governor holds onto his top spot on The Line for a second month thanks to two main factors -- his continued strong polling numbers in Iowa and New Hampshire and his demonstrated willingness to use his personal wealth to help fund his campaign. If Romney does give $40 million to $60 million (or even more) to his campaign , it gives him a major leg up over his opponents, who will have to continue to scrounge for $2,300 checks all the way through the Iowa caucuses. Hurdles remain for Romney, however. He is far weaker in South Carolina than in either New Hampshire or Iowa, a fact that could provide a nice opening for former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.). And then there's the Mormon question. Romney's campaign is contemplating whether he should give some sort of speech in which the governor would further explain his religion and how he sees it influencing a Romney administration. He will not, they ...

Mitt Romney: Don't Talk About My Religion Very classy.

Today's schools are falling further and further behind world standards. It is time to raise the bar on education by making teaching a true profession, measuring progress, providing a focus on math and science, and involving parents from the beginning of a child's school career. "We cannot continue to have an excellence gap with the rest of the world and intend to remain the economic superpower and military superpower of the planet. That's just not going to happen," Romney said. "We're in a position where unless we take action, we'll end up being the France of the 21st century: a lot of talk, but not a lot of strength behind it in terms of economic capability." Governor Romney, AP, November 16, 2005 "It's going to take teachers, superintendents and parents talking to their legislators saying yes, we want more money of course ... but we also want changes in the way our schools are managed. We want our principals to have the ability to...