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Wednesday, November 06, 2002
Mitt Romney (R)
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Business executive Mitt Romney, the son of former Michigan Gov. George Romney, distinguished himself on the national stage as the man who brought you the wildly successful 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. Romney maintained his party's twelve-year governance over this staunchly Democratic state by defeating state Treasurer Shannon O'Brien after a tight and bitterly fought campaign that drew near-record numbers of Massachusetts voters to the polls. Romney promises to carry on the fiscally conservative, socially liberal precedent set by former GOP governors William Weld and Paul Cellucci, having vocally defended his credentials as a supporter of abortion choice and gay rights. But he also surprised many in the state by advocating reinstatement of the death penalty: Massachusetts hasn't executed a criminal since 1947 and officially dropped capital punishment 18 years ago.
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