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Romney Submits Paperwork for 2008 Bid
"While Mitt Romney says he's not a multiple-choice candidate, his record shows that he has routinely changed his position on everything from abortion to taxes, making it difficult to know where he stands," said Democratic National Committee spokeswoman Stacie Paxton.
Willard Mitt Romney received his B.A. in 1971 from Brigham Young University, where he was class valedictorian, and then went on to simultaneously earn degrees from Harvard Business and Law schools, graduating cum laude from law school and in the top 5 percent of his business school class.
  Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks to Republican's at the 4th annual Ronald Reagan Dinner in Des Moines, Iowa, in this Oct. 16, 2004 file photo. While Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is perceived as the presumptive Republican front runner for the 2008 presidential nomination , a full year before the first primary contests, the Republican race is anything but wrapped up. The Arizona senator who once reveled in his reputation for bucking the party line is now running as the establishment candidate, faces serious challenges from Romney and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. (AP Photo/Steve Pope) (Steve Pope - AP) |
The Michigan native remained in Boston, where he helped found a multibillion-dollar venture capital firm, Bain Capital, and amassed a multimillion-dollar fortune funding such companies as Staples, the office-supply giant.
His only major failure was an unsuccessful campaign in 1994 against Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass. Romney rebounded politically in 2002, when he won the governor's office.
Romney sought and won the chairmanship of the Republican Governors Association, which allowed him to spend the 2006 midterm elections traveling the country and dispensing cash to his party's gubernatorial candidates.
He raised a record $20 million and was especially generous with RGA money in early presidential states like Iowa, Florida and his native Michigan.
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