From the Keystone State, an endorsement for Mitt Romney…
Boston, MA – Mitt Romney today announced the support of Pennsylvania Congressman Jim Gerlach.
“President Obama’s massive stimulus bills have not helped Pennsylvania,” said Mitt Romney. “Instead of creating jobs, President Obama has just increased government spending. I will work with leaders like Congressman Gerlach to cut spending and get our economy on the right track so that Pennsylvanians know their children will have a bright future.”
“It is clear that President Obama’s policies of the last three years have failed,” said Congressman Jim Gerlach. “At a time when our budget deficits have skyrocketed and unemployment remains dangerously high, we need a radically different approach in Washington. Mitt Romney has demonstrated that conservative leadership and solutions can fix the problems our country faces. I look forward to working with him to address these issues.”
Background On Congressman Jim Gerlach:
Congressman Gerlach Represents Pennsylvania’s Sixth District. In Congress, he serves on the House Ways and Means Committee. Before his election to Congress, Gerlach was a member of both the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and Senate.
Today, Romney for President released a new web video, “November 7th, 2012″ underscoring Obama’s failed three years as president.
In less than a year, on November 6, 2012, voters will make a choice:
Will we re-elect a president who will continue with the status quo? A stagnant economy. High unemployment. Out of control spending. Or will we change the direction of our country? Will we renew the lease on four years of failed leadership or we will set a new course? Ask yourself, will you make a difference?
Script:
“On November 7th, 2012, Americans will wake up and a decision will have been made.”
“Will we re-elect a president who will continue with the status quo?”
“A stagnant economy.”
“High unemployment.”
“Out of control spending.”
“Or will we change the direction of our country?”
“Will we renew the lease on four years of failed leadership or we will set a new course?”
“Ask yourself, will you make a difference?”
“Will you help turn our country around?”
“And believe in America again?”
“What will YOU do?”
“You have less than a year – the future is in your hands.”
Congressman Aaron Schock, from the Prairie State, likes Mitt Romney’s “conservative solutions” to end deficit spending and get Americans back to work. As a result, Schlock has endorsed Governor Romney:
Boston, MA – Mitt Romney [has] announced the support of Illinois Congressman Aaron Schock.
“In order to improve our financial standing, we must get spending under control,” said Mitt Romney. “Congressman Schock has been a leader in the fight to reduce government spending. I am proud to have his endorsement and look forward to working with him to reduce our burdensome debt.”
Announcing his support, Congressman Schock said, “Mitt Romney has a record of cutting spending and keeping taxes low that needs to be replicated in Washington. Under President Obama, our national debt has skyrocketed and our prized AAA credit rating has been lost. Mitt Romney has the conservative solutions needed to get Washington off its spending addiction and focused on creating jobs.”
Background On Congressman Aaron Schock:
Congressman Aaron Schock Was Elected To The U.S. House In 2008 And Serves The 18th District Of Illinois. In Congress, he serves on the Ways and Means Committee. Prior to his election, Congressman Schock was a member of the Illinois Legislature and the PeoriaSchool Board. Congressman Schock is the youngest member of the U.S. House Of Representatives.
Romney continues to organize in Kentucky:
Boston, MA – Mitt Romney today announced his Kentucky State Finance Chairs, Joe Craft and Kelly Knight.
“I am proud to announce my Kentucky State Finance Chairs,” said Mitt Romney. “Kelly and Joe’s help will be essential in securing the resources necessary to defeat President Obama in 2012. Kentucky has been hit hard by President Obama’s failed economic leadership. Voters there and across the country are looking for a president who will not only bring back jobs and restore economic growth but also get serious about energy independence and take advantage of our country’s coal resources, which is especially important in Kentucky. Kelly and Joe’s support will be essential to spreading my message to turn around our struggling economy.”
Background on Kentucky State Finance Chairs:
Kelly Knight served as the United States Public Delegate for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly and was appointed by President George W. Bush to that post in 2007. Currently, she is the Chairman of a strategic management firm. An active member of her community, Knight serves on the Board of The Salvation Army of Lexington.
Joe Craft is president, chief executive officer, and a director of Alliance Resource Partners, the fourth largest coal producer in the eastern United States. He also serves as president, chief executive officer, and Chairman of the Board of Alliance Holdings GP. Craft is a director for Bank of Oklahoma and Tulsa Community Foundation.
Mitt Romney received 15 endorsements from the Great Lakes State today…
Boston, MA – Mitt Romney today announced the endorsements of former Michigan Congressmen Vern Ehlers and Joe Knollenberg, as well as additional members of the Michigan Legislature and Oakland County elected officials and Republican leaders.
“I am thrilled that these great leaders from Michigan are joining my campaign,” said Mitt Romney. “The people of Michigan deserve a president who will focus on creating jobs, cutting wasteful spending, and keeping taxes low. I look forward to working with these leaders to bring my conservative message to Michigan and the whole country.”
Elected officials and leaders endorsing Mitt Romney:
Former Congressman Vern Ehlers
Former Congressman Joe Knollenberg
State Senator Goeff Hansen
State Senator John Proos
State Representative Mike Callton
State Representative Ken Horn
State Representative Bradford Jacobsen
State Representative Ken Yonker Bill Bullard, Oakland County Clerk John McCullough, Oakland County Water Resources Commissioner Mike Gingell, Chairman, Oakland County Board of Commissioners Andrew “Rocky” Raczkowski, Former House Majority Floor Leader Paul Welday, Former Candidate For Congress Dennis Cowan, Former Chairman, Oakland County Republican Party Ronna Romney, Former Republican National Committeewoman
Individuals already on the Romney Leadership Team in Michigan:
Attorney General Bill Schuette, Michigan Campaign Chairman
Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville, Michigan Campaign Co-Chair
Speaker Jase Bolger, Michigan Campaign Co-Chair
John Rakolta, Jr., National Finance Chairman
G. Scott Romney, National Finance Co-Chair
Saul Anuzis, Republican National Committeeman
State Representative Holly Hughes, Republican National Committeewoman
Ambassador Peter F. Secchia, former Republican National Committeeman
Nancy Danhof, Secretary of the State Board of Education
Melanie Foster, Vice Chair of the Michigan State Board of Trustees
L. Brooks Patterson, Oakland County Executive
State Senator Dave Hildenbrand
State Senator Rick Jones
State Senator Roger Kahn
State Senator Mike Kowall
State Senator Jim Marleau
State Senator John Pappageorge
State Senator Phil Pavlov
State Senator Tonya Schuitmaker
State Representative Jim Stamas, Majority Floor Leader
State Representative Dave Agema
State Representative Jon Bumstead
State Representative Kurt Damrow
State Representative Frank Foster
State Representative Joe Haveman
State Representative Gail Haines
State Representative Kurt Heise
State Representative Marty Knollenberg
State Representative Eileen Kowall
State Representative Matt Lori
State Representative Greg MacMaster
State Representative Chuck Moss
State Representative Margaret O’Brien
State Representative Mark Ouimet
State Representative Lisa Posthumus-Lyons
State Representative Paul Scott
State Representative Wayne Schmidt
State Representative John Walsh
State Representative Dale Zorn
Mitt Romney is a participant in a three hour event tonight for GOP candidates hosted by Bill O’Reilly. The program will air from 6pm ET to 9pm ET on radio stations all around the country and on www.BillOReilly.com:
Bill O’Reilly’s Presidential Town Hall is a three-hour radio exclusive town hall even featuring current Republican presidential hopefuls facing hard-hitting questions from America’s favorite cable news host.
Listeners from across the country will also have the opportunity to cast their vote in a LIVE online straw poll here on BillOReilly.com.
Mitt Romney is pictured speaking during an economic roundtable meeting held in Treynor, Iowa. Oct 21, 2011
(Photo AP/Charlie Neibergall)
Mitt Romney’s belief that Iowans play an important role in the electoral process is shored up by his visit today to Dubuque and Davenport. He will meet with voters and speak on jobs and the economy.
Romney’s schedule Nov 7, 2011
Event: Mitt Romney speaks at Giese Manufacturing
When: 12:15 PM CST
Location: Giese Manufacturing
7025 Chavenelle Road
Dubuque, IA
Event: Mitt Romney speaks at Iowa American Water
When: 5:20 PM CST
Location: Iowa American Water
5201 Grand Avenue
Davenport, IA
Last Friday, Josh Romney, (son of Mitt and Ann) who campaigned in all 99 counties in Iowa last time around, was in Cedar Rapids campaigning for his father and making phone calls for Senate hopeful Cindy Golding:
MARION – “I’m three-for-three,” Josh Romney announced after taking a turn making get-out-the-vote phone calls for Iowa Senate candidate Cindy Golding Nov. 4.
The son of 2012 Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney added an asterisk to his accomplishment.
“That’s two votes for Cindy and a half of a vote for my Dad,” he joked with Golding’s campaign volunteers before joining the Linn Eagles, a Republican fundraising club, for lunch in Cedar Rapids.
Golding is running in a Nov. 8 special election in Iowa Senate 18 in northern and western Linn County. If she defeats Democrat Liz Mathis, the Senate will be tied at 25 Republicans and 25 Democrats.
“What you’re doing here makes a difference,” Romney told the volunteers, because Golding, who along with her husband, Joe, own and operate four small businesses, “will help to grow jobs – like my Dad has done.”
Romney, who sells real estate in Salt Lake City, has been on the campaign trail for his dad this month, making appearances in New Hampshire, where Republicans will have their primary a week after Iowa’s Jan. 3 first-in-the-nation precinct caucuses. The No. 1 issue wherever he goes is jobs and the need to get the economy headed in the right direction, he said, and there is no one better to address job growth than his dad, Romney said.
“My dad understands jobs,” he said. “He knows how to create jobs. He’s done it his entire life – turned things around. What we need right now is a turnaround in our country. My dad is the guy to do it.”
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Back on Aug 7, 2007, Josh Romney, son of Mitt and Ann Romney, was photographed in Urbandale, Iowa by AP photographer Steve Pope. He was talking about his campaign visits to all 99 Iowa counties while driving the 'MittMobile', a motor home purchased on Ebay. The younger Romney has recently been campaigning for his father and was in Iowa last week.
Governor Romney was last in Iowa on Oct 20th for events in Sioux City, Treynor, and Council Bluffs. Prior to that, Ann Romney was in the Hawkeye State on Oct 4-6 attending events in Adel, Marion, and Bettendorf.
Currently, Governor Romney and Herman Cain are polling at a statistical dead heat in Iowa.
A former Empire State ophthalmologist/surgeon, now Congresswoman, has endorsed Mitt Romney:
Boston, MA – Mitt Romney was endorsed today by New York Congresswoman Nan Hayworth.
“After three years, it is clear that President Obama’s budget-busting policies have not created jobs and have only added to our debt,” said Mitt Romney. “Congresswoman Hayworth has prioritized creating jobs and getting government spending under control. I hope, as president, to work with Nan to ensure that our children and grandchildren will not be the ones to shoulder trillions of dollars in debt they had no part in creating.”
“14 million Americans need jobs,” said Congresswoman Nan Hayworth. “That’s why we have to fix our economy. Mitt Romney has proven as a governor and as a business leader that he can turn around tough situations and make things work. I have complete confidence in his ability to balance the federal budget, make the government efficient and effective, and ensure that all Americans have the opportunity they deserve and the prosperity they need. Mitt Romney is the right person to get us back to work, and he will make an outstanding president.”
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Background On Congresswoman Hayworth:
Congresswoman Hayworth’s accomplishments include mother, doctor, and businesswoman. She currently represents New York’s 19th district and serves on the House Financial Services Committee. In Congress, she has worked to reduce federal spending and lift regulatory burdens on job creators.
Read more about Hayworth’s background here and check out her facebook page here.
Former NH Governor and Senator Judd Gregg has written an op-ed today outlining why he's proud to support Mitt Romney for President. November 4, 2011.
Did you notice who helped introduce Mitt Romney yesterday at his town hall meeting in New Hampshire? The one where he delivered a fantastic fiscal policy speech?
The two doing the introductory honors were NH State Senator Russell Prescott (who endorsed Mitt yesterday) and former NH Governor and Senator Judd Gregg (endorsed Mitt on October 10th). Today, Judd Gregg has penned a strong, must-read op-ed voicing his reasons for supporting Romney (posted on Romney’s website, published by Union Leader).
“I Am Proud To Support Mitt Romney For President”
By Judd Gregg
November 4, 2011
The United States is facing a looming disaster, or really two looming disasters. One is called runaway spending. The other is called runaway debt. Together they portend real hardship for our country, and we urgently need to get both under control.
I was proud to recently endorse Mitt Romney’s presidential candidacy. The former governor of Massachusetts has what it takes to deal with the twin crises in which we are gripped.
Romney has had a distinguished career in public service. But the more important fact is that he’s spent almost all of his life in the private sector. He’s helped to start new companies and turn around failing ones. There’s absolutely no magic in what Romney has done. Rather, there is deep understanding of the marketplace, excellent execution and genuine leadership of people.
That’s a rare confluence of qualities in a public figure. The country is fortunate that Romney is in the race. As sometimes happens in history, the economic crisis has brought to the fore exactly the kind of leader that we need.
Romney knows the importance of cutting costs and making organizations highly efficient. But the truth is that a lot of people know how to talk the talk. What Romney also knows is how to go about putting his understanding into practice. He can actually walk the walk. The evidence is in the mega-job-creating enterprises like Staples and Sports Authority and Domino’s Pizza that Romney’s company played a significant hand in growing.
But it is also in his extraordinary track record as governor.
When Romney assumed office, the Massachusetts economy was just emerging from a recession. The state government, long under the control of a Democratic legislature, was spending more than it was taking in. We can all draw some lessons from what Romney did to reverse the fiscal recklessness. He cut taxes on 19 different occasions. And he cut state spending. By the end of his term, the state had a $2 billion rainy day fund, and Massachusetts employers had resumed hiring.
This was not a Massachusetts miracle, for there are no miracles in economics. Rather, it was the work of a highly skilled leader. Particularly notable is that he was able to reach across the aisle and persuade Democrats to go along with measures that they had long resisted.
Romney is the leader we need to break our national pattern of out-of-control spending and borrowing. …
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Mitt Romney had a sit-down with the Portsmouth Herald editorial board in New Hampshire today. He covered a wide variety of topics including social issues, health care, capital punishment, energy policy, and more:
Romney presents presidential plans at Portsmouth meeting SeaCoastOnline
By Deborah Mcdermott
November 3, 2011
PORTSMOUTH — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said if he had the opportunity to appoint a Supreme Court justice he or she would be in the mold of Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts.
“Their approach is the approach I would encourage,” he said. “I would try to find those who would follow the Constitution.”
The U.S. Supreme Court should not create law through its rulings, but should confine itself to interpreting the Constitution, Romney told the Portsmouth Herald editorial board Thursday.
“There are two very different approaches to the Supreme Court. There are those who feel the Constitution is a starting point, with justices saying, ‘We should go here with that thinking.’ You see this in the activist courts,” he said. “Others say the Constitution is not a launching point, but a beginning and ending point. I follow the second camp.”
Romney said justices should not make their own determination about what is wrong with a law or with the Constitution. That should be left to lawmakers or to a Constitutional amendment.
Governor Romney was asked why he wanted to be President:
“On a personal basis, I wouldn’t,” he said, adding that at the end of the 2008 Primary election when he lost to Sen. John McCain, “my wife and I decided I would not run again.”
But after seeing what he said is “an exceptional nation headed in a direction that imperils our future,” his wife had a change of heart — “even before I did.”
“She said, ‘Mitt, you have to get in and do it again.’ And because I love this country, and I’m concerned about my kids and my grandkids, I said, OK,” he said.
For a synopsis of Romney’s take on federal debt, capital punishment, Social Security reform, health care, energy policy, social issues, and education, continue reading here.
Romney shares his views with the editorial board on Supreme Court justices:
ABC posted this next video portion of Romney’s interview. He references his book ‘No Apology’, defends his consistency on the issues, e.g., same-sex marriage and global warming. He knows it’s political season and that those playing the ‘gotcha’ game are looking for any little variance in the words he uses to explain policy:
The penchant of some who seek to take Romney’s words out of context, mis-quote him, and mischaracterize him is a great disservice to voters. We’re happy to help keep the record straight on Romney, along with the pro-Romney sites found on the right-hand side of this page.
Boston, MA – Mitt Romney today announced the endorsement of former Florida Senator Connie Mack III. Senator Mack will serve on the campaign’s National Advisory Council.
“I am honored to receive Senator Mack’s support,” said Mitt Romney. “He has long been a champion in the fight to reduce our deficit and balance the budget. Senator Mack’s service to Floridians is long and distinguished and I am thrilled to work with him to spread my pro-growth message of reduced spending, a balanced budget, and job creation.”
“Mitt Romney’s conservative experience is unmatched,” said Senator Mack. “He spent his career in the private sector turning around failing businesses and creating jobs. As Governor, he turned around his state, turning a $3 billion budget gap into a $2 billion rainy day fund, all without raising taxes. Mitt Romney will provide America the leadership we need to fix our economy, put Floridians and all Americans back to work, and return us to a new era of prosperity and opportunity. I am proud to support Mitt Romney for president.”
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Background on Senator Connie Mack III:
Senator Mack was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 1989. He was elected U. S. Senator in 1989 and served until his retirement in 2001. He served as chairman of the Senate Republican Conference from 1997-2001.
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