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Make up your mind, dares Reilly to Romney

jmonahan@telegram.com





BOSTON— Attorney General Thomas P. Reilly yesterday charged that Gov. Mitt Romney’s increasingly extensive out-of-state political activities “have become a distraction” from important state business. Some see the governor’s actions as an effort to stage a run for the Republican nomination for president.

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'Mr. Reilly, who is running for the Democratic nomination for governor and could face Mr. Romney if the governor decides to seek a second term, yesterday called on the governor to lay his cards and his political plans on the table.

“At some point, make up your mind. Come or go. Stay, run, whatever. Just do your job,” Mr. Reilly said.

“You know there is important business here and I am focused on the things that matter to the people of Massachusetts,” Mr. Reilly said at a press conference in which he criticized a court decision supporting the inclusion of a $30,000 housing allowance toward the pension of former University of Massachusetts President William M. Bulger.

Mr. Romney, who was in Florida for part of last week and has made more than 20 out-of-state political speeches over the past year, is absent for most of this work week, attending a three-day meeting of the Republican Governors Association in California, where he is expected to be elected the group’s new chairman.

Mr. Romney, who served as vice chairman of the political organization this year, is expected to use the top seat to advance his presidential ambitions, helping Republicans around the country next year by using the association’s soft money campaign funds in states where that type of funding is allowed.

Massachusetts and numerous other states prohibit the use of unlimited private donations such as those raised by the association, and changes in federal law prohibit use of the funds in any federal elections.

While Mr. Reilly committed to appeal the court ruling in the Bulger case, Mr. Romney was on his way to the sprawling LaCosta Resort and Spa in California for the annual conference, where he and other Republican governors will mingle with corporate lobbyists and political strategists.

Mr. Romney has said he plans to make an announcement about whether he would seek re-election as governor sometime before Dec. 21, and Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey is preparing a campaign for governor in case Mr. Romney chooses not to run.

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Posted by: mpd61

Oh Mr Reilly PAHLEEZE!!

Bad enough you want to restrict my 2nd Amendment Rights and propose that we subsidize Higher Ed for children of ILLEGAL aliens, all proposed from your pulpit..................

Now you want to take cheap shots at Romney cuz you're impatient trying to figure out whether you'll face him or Healy for the corner office. Sit down and Chill out!

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Posted by: Wolfman

Not saying that I agree with some of Reilly's stances but...

Mitt is not your friend.

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Posted by: j809

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Originally Posted by Wolfman Not saying that I agree with some of Reilly's stances but... Mitt is not your friend.

Amen to that, Mitt is anti-cop and anti-union. At leeast Riley is pro-quinn,uions and details, from first hand sources that know him.

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Posted by: mpd61

Show me any politician who's a real 100% friend to police in this state, and I'll shave my head!


Romney cut my job by restructuring EOHHS in 2003. I got over it and survived. It sucks getting laid off, but I hung in there and got back to full-time P.O. Job. It was a good paying job to lose, but I have reinstatement rights and accepted responsibility to keep working. I can't blame one person for acting to save taxpayers $$$.

I can hold one sole individual responsible for restricting RIGHTS by taking actions under "consumer safety laws" and circumventing both our elected LEGISLATURE and our RIGHT to vote on an issue. Screw Reilly. He used his power in an arbitrary manner to enact anti-gun legislation, period.

In Massachusetts a republican governor is weak compared to arguably the strongest democrat-controlled legislature in all the fifty states. Sure Romney may not be my friend, (as a Veteran, I think he is) but I know Reilly is my enemy.

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Posted by: rg1283

That Alien stuff pissed me off. There so many ways if one wants an education in this country as a foreigner they can get it legally. We don't need to hand it to them. That'll help create jobs??!!!!! We'll send you to Worcester State College for free you illegal alien, with all the money you helped pay for in taxes and services. :-\

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