Mitt Romney Worked Chauffeur

Mitt Romney Worked Chauffeur, Mitt Romney’s first job was a chauffeur for a university physics department. One summer, he also worked as a security guard at a Chrysler plant. Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American businessman and politician. He was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and is a candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination.

The son of George W. Romney (the former Governor of Michigan) and Lenore Romney, Mitt Romney was raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and later served as a Mormon missionary in France. He married Ann Romney in 1969 and they have five children. He received his undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University, and then earned a joint JD and MBA from Harvard University.

Romney entered the management consulting business, which led to a position at Bain & Company. Eventually serving as CEO, Romney brought the company out of crisis. He was co-founder and head of the spin-off company Bain Capital, a private equity investment firm that became highly profitable and one of the largest such firms in the nation.

His wealth helped fund most of his future political campaigns. Active in his church, he served as ward bishop and later stake president in his area. He ran as the Republican candidate in the 1994 U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts, losing to long-time incumbent Ted Kennedy. Romney organized and steered the 2002 Winter Olympics as head of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, and helped turn the troubled games into a financial success.

Romney was elected Governor of Massachusetts in 2002 but did not seek re-election in 2006. He presided over a series of spending cuts and increases in fees that eliminated an up to $1.5 billion deficit. He also signed into law the Massachusetts health care reform legislation, which provided near-universal health insurance access via subsidies and state-level mandates and was the first of its kind in the nation. During the course of his political career, his positions or rhetorical emphasis have shifted more towards American conservatism in several areas.

Romney ran for the Republican nomination in the 2008 U.S. presidential election, winning several primaries and caucuses, but eventually losing the nomination to John McCain. In the following years, he gave speeches and raised campaign funds on behalf of fellow Republicans. On June 2, 2011, Romney announced that he would seek the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. The results of the caucuses and primaries so far place him as the leader in the race.

Shepherd Smith: Romney Stop Wearing Mom Jeans

Shepherd Smith: Romney Stop Wearing Mom Jeans, Fox News’ Shepard Smith had some serious fashion advice for GOP candidate Mitt Romney on Tuesday: stop wearing mom jeans.

The network’s chief political correspondent Carl Cameron reported on the Michigan primary’s close results from a Romney rally in Ohio. While Cameron reported on the results, Smith apologized and said he couldn’t help but notice a fashion faux pas in the background of the shot.

“I’m sorry Carl, but I’m looking at [Romney] over your right shoulder there. Do you think he’s aware he’s wearing mom jeans? Cause he is. He’s wearing mom jeans, Carl. It’s 2012! Somebody ought to tell him,” Smith said, sounding quite surprised. “You’re not the one to tell him, I know that, but someone should.”

“Well I think you just did. He’s trying to lighten up. He has been for months,” Cameron responded.

After Cameron provided more analysis of the GOP primary race, Smith went back to the mom jeans. “I’m not hating on it. I’m just observing it, cause that’s what we do. We’re journalsits and we observe. I observe that Mitt Romney is wearing mom jeans. That’s all.” Cameron joked that he will try to include updates on “mom jeans” in future political analyses. “You should because they belong lower on your waist. It’s 2012. But you know, do what you do.” Smith said. “Nice to see you Big Carl! I hope you’ll be in New York soon.”

Smith has offered colorful commentary in the past on a variety of topics. Earlier this month, he raged against AT&T for changing the policies on his unlimited data plan. After a visit to the White House for lunch in January, Smith described the menu in great detail on his Fox News show.

Blunt Amendment

Blunt Amendment, Republicans are trying to add an amendment to a highway bill currently in the Senate that would allow employers to opt out of a new federal health-care mandate for their employees if they have religious objections. The Senate is expected to vote Thursday morning.

A recently announced rule in the health care law would have forced businesses including those affiliated to the Catholic Church to provide health-care options that included access to contraception – something the Catholic Church opposes. Mr. Obama has offered a compromise on the rule, but conservatives say it doesn’t go far enough.

Senate Republicans – with exceptions – are framing the amendment by Sen. Roy Blunt (R) of Missouri as a defense of a fundamental constitutional right.

Senate Democrats – also with exceptions – see the issue as a war on women and a deliberate bid to obstruct passage of a long-delayed bill that would fund major construction and repair projects, affecting millions of jobs.

The issue goes to the heart of the culture wars, also roiling the GOP presidential primary.

“This issue gets right at the heart of who we are as a people,” said Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R) of Kentucky, in an opening floor speech on Thursday. “It is not in the power of the federal government to tell anybody what to believe or to punish them for practicing those beliefs,” he added.

But Democrats say the highway bill shouldn’t become a venue for the contraception issue.

New Hampshire Primary

New Hampshire Primary, Romney rivals make final NH appeals: His pledge to stay positive in ashes, New Gingrich challenged front-runner Mitt Romney to account for his record as a corporate takeover artist Monday as Republican presidential hopefuls hustled through a final day of campaigning for the New Hampshire primary, a pivotal test for the rivals bidding to derail the former Massachusetts governor.

The candidates were all but tripping over each other, concentrating their day in the southern half of the state, known for holding town-hall meetings in actual town halls.

One exception, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, campaigned in South Carolina but joined Gingrich from afar in going bluntly after the front-runner’s private-sector credentials.

“I have no doubt that Mitt Romney was worried about pink slips ? whether he’d have enough of them to hand out,” Perry told several dozen breakfast patrons in Anderson, S.C. That was a slap at Romney’s recent comment that he worried about getting a pink slip during his executive career.

Perry cited South Carolina companies that downsized under the control of Bain Capital, the private equity firm Romney ran, and said it would be an “insult” for Romney to come to the state and ask for voters’ support in easing economic pain.

“He caused it,” Perry said, describing himself as best positioned to untangle the “unholy alliance between Washington and Wall Street.”

Among the half dozen contenders, Jon Huntsman, who needs a strong New Hampshire performance to stay viable in the race, planned perhaps the most frantic pace, with seven stops on his itinerary from Lebanon near the Vermont line to the seacoast.

The former Utah governor visited a Lebanon truck stop and took the phone from an employee behind the counter who was speaking with a milk delivery driver. He said he’s looking for votes wherever he can find them. “I’m the underdog,” he said, a label that applies ? at least in New Hampshire ? to anyone but Romney.

Knocking Romney off his perch Tuesday won’t be easy.

He has spent the better part of two years essentially adopting the state as his own and now holds a comfortable lead in pre-primary polls as his rivals essentially battle for second place. Romney won the Iowa caucuses last week by a scant eight votes over Rick Santorum.

Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney, It’s no secret that Newt Gingrich has been married three times. But Mitt Romney wants to remind conservative voters that he, on the other hand, has been with the same woman for 42 years — and has five camera-friendly sons.

The Republican presidential candidate has come out swinging with a new ad casting himself as a devout, family man — drawing distinctions between himself and his chief rival who has admitted to extra-marital affairs and is a religious convert.

“I’m a man of steadiness and constancy,” Romney says in the TV spot as grainy home videos of his wife and five sons flashes on the screen.

“I don’t think you’re going to find somebody who has more of those attributes than I do,” the former Massachusetts governor added.

Clips from Romney’s speech in the ad come from a recent debate, in which he was accused of being a flip-flopper on several issues, including healthcare, abortion, climate change and immigration.

Romney does not call out Gingrich by name in the spot that’s set to air in Iowa and New Hampshire this week, but it’s being largely interpreted as a not-so-subtle attack on the ex-House Speaker who has recently emerged as a top-tier candidate.

As pictures of his wife Ann are shown, Romney says, “I’ve been married to the same woman for 25 – excuse me, I’ll get in trouble – for 42 years. I’ve been in the same church my entire life. I worked at one company, Bain, for 25 years.”

The religious swipe also seems to be aimed at Gingrich, who has been criticized by some conservatives for being raised Lutheran, but became a southern Baptist and then recently converted to Catholicism.

Gingrich’s team did not immediately return a request for comment.

But when asked if moral behavior was a legitimate issue on the campaign trail, he told CNN on Wednesday, “I think everything about a candidate has to be held into account.”

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