Romney Outlined - submitted for your disapproval:
When the Legislature did not act, Romney did, ordering town clerks to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples on May 17, 2004, the 180th day since the Supreme Court ruling. The order was co...ntrary to state law, as was the directive of the Governor’s legal counsel, telling justices of the peace they must, forthwith, perform same-sex marriages. Soon marriage licenses in Massachusetts replaced the designations of “husband” and “wife” with “Party A” and “Party B”
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Yet Romney made clear he would not push for legal protection of pre-born life. On February 28, 2005, nearly four months after the conversion he described, Romney said: “I am personally pro-life. However, as governor I would not change the laws of the commonwealth relating to abortion.”
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Romney went all out in that campaign to show he could be an even greater defender of “gay rights” than the liberal lion, Kennedy. In a letter seeking the endorsement of the Log Cabin Club of Massachusetts (which he received), Romney wrote: “If we are to achieve the goals we share, we must make equality for gays and lesbians a mainstream concern. My opponent cannot do this. I can and will.”
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Romney was a supporter of the Brady bill, requiring a five-day waiting period before anyone could buy a handgun. As Governor, he signed into law a ban on assault weapons. “I don’t line up with the NRA,” he said at the time.
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Romney claimed to have supported the Bush tax cuts of 2003, which occurred during his first year as Governor. But the Boston Globe quoted Romney at the time as telling the state’s congressional delegation that he “won’t be a cheerleader” for tax cuts he doesn’t agree with. At the same time, Romney said he wouldn’t oppose the cuts, because he had to “keep a solid relationship” with the White House.
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“As governor of Massachusetts, I made it very clear there, and I did not raise taxes.” But Romney raised fees on everything from marriage licenses to home sales to professional registrations and firearms licenses, including a tripling of the fee for a firearm ID card. He quintupled the per gallon delivery fee on gasoline.
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“Basically, it’s the same thing [Romney's ObamaCare for Mass.],’’ Gruber told the Boston Globe. The national plan would not have been implemented if Romney had not made “the decision in 2005 to go for it” in Massachusetts, Gruber said. “He is in many ways the intellectual father of national health reform.’’
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