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highplainsdem

(49,044 posts) Sat Oct 20, 2012, 11:20 PM Oct 2012

Joan Vennochi, Boston Globe: Romney’s history in Massachusetts is anything but women-friendly

http://bostonglobe.com/opinion/2012/10/20/myth-romney-isn-champion-women/rCXS74O3OYmOYaD41wuXoM/story.html

Mitt Romney, champion of women, is myth in Massachusetts.

Reality for Romney includes elbowing aside acting Governor Jane Swift so he could run.

Reality for Romney means recruiting Kerry Healey to run for lieutenant governor, and then easing her into the background once he won office.

Reality for Romney means having the Women’s Bar Association of Massachusetts go public with concerns that the governor’s picks for judicial appointments were virtually all white men — and then having the Romney administration blame its poor record on a lack of qualified female and minority applicants.

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