“I am the only candidate in this race, Republican or Democrat, who has never worked a day in Washington,” Mitt Romney said in a speech today. “I don’t have old scores to settle or decades of cloakroom deals to defend.”
Mitt has plenty of deals to defend. Just this week, he said he'd a been a fool not to look for Federal money. Today, in The Morning Call, Colby Itkowitz writes: "In a 2003 article in Boston-based Commonwealth Magazine, Romney’s chief of legislative and intergovernmental affairs, Cindy Gillespie, discussed the state’s Washington lobbying office and is quoted saying it “exists for one reason: to increase the amount of federal funding coming back to the state.”
In the same Commonwealth article, Gillespie says Romney’s team in Washington would seek aid from the federal highway bill and new homeland security funds. Of course, Romney also fought hard for (and won) federal funding for his Big Dig project in Boston.
The bottom line is, Mitt Romney, when he was Governor, often worked in Washington, usually trying to cajole money for Massachusetts from the President and Congress. The record shows many dozens of trips to Washington by Mittens during his governorship. He wasn't going there for the parties and nightlife in Georgetown.
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