252 “I didn’t know”: Interview with Mitt Romney.
252 Timing was everything: Interview with Republican, 2007.
252 Romney’s furious preparations: Scott Helman and Michael Levenson, “Romney Camp Consulted with Mormon Leaders,” The Boston Globe, October 19, 2006.
253 “We know Mitt”: Thomas Burr, Joe Baird, and Peggy Fletcher Stack, “Romney Pal Takes Blame for Dust-Up,” The Salt Lake Tribune, October 23, 2006.
253 a tally at the end of 2006 found: Brian C. Mooney, “Romney Left Mass. on 212 Days in ’06,” The Boston Globe, December 24, 2006.
253 On November 9, 2004: Scott Helman, “Romney’s Journey to the Right,” The Boston Globe, December 17, 2006.
254 On February 10, 2005: Pam Belluck, “Massachusetts Governor Opposes Stem Cell Work,” The New York Times, February 10, 2005.
254 Some scientists wondered: Helman, “Romney’s Journey to the Right.”
254 “There’s evidence”: Scott S. Greenberger and Frank Phillips, “Romney Draws Fire on Stem Cells,” The Boston Globe, February 11, 2005.
254 “Changing my position”: Interview with Mitt Romney.
255 He turned Harvard: Helman, “Romney’s Journey to the Right.”
255 “convictions have evolved”: Mitt Romney, “Why I Vetoed Contraception Bill,” The Boston Globe, July 26, 2005.
255 Supporters of the bill: Helman, “Romney’s Journey to the Right.”
255 “an abortion pill”: Pam Belluck, “Massachusetts Veto Seeks to Curb Morning-After Pill,” The New York Times, July 26, 2005.
256 By 2006, Romney’s aides: Maggie Mulvihill and Kimberly Atkins, “Romney Veers Right on Abortion, Gay Adoption,” Boston Herald, March 1, 2006.
256 “He can come”: Interview with former adviser, 2011.
256 Romney adopted just such a program: Helman, “Romney’s Journey to the Right.”
256 He backed out: Beth Daley, “Mass. Pulls Out of Agreement to Cut Power Plant Emissions,” The Boston Globe, December 15, 2005.
257 Republican “extremists”: Scott Helman, “Romney’s ’94 Remarks on Same-Sex Marriage Could Haunt Him,” The Boston Globe, December 8, 2006.
257 He railed against “activist judges”: Scott Helman, “Romney Rips SJC’s Justices on Values,” The Boston Globe, November 11, 2005.
257 He pressed Congress: Raphael Lewis, “Romney Urges Federal Ban on Gay-Marriage ‘Experiment,’” The Boston Globe, June 23, 2004; Frank Phillips and Lisa Wangsness, “Same-Sex Marriage Ban Advances,” The Boston Globe, January 3, 2007.
257 “the religion of secularism”: Maria Cramer, “Broadcast Blasts Same-Sex Marriage,” The Boston Globe, October 16, 2006.
257 “Some are actually”: John J. Monahan, “Romney Talk Riles Gay Parents,” Worcester Telegram & Gazette, February 26, 2005.
257 “San Francisco east”: Peter Wallsten, “Activists Remember a Different Romney,” Los Angeles Times, March 25, 2007.
257 He sought to amend: Jonathan Saltzman, “Romney Bill Seeks Adoption Exemption,” The Boston Globe, March 16, 2006.
257 He backed away: Dan Balz and Shailagh Murray, “Mass. Governor’s Rightward Shift Raises Questions,” The Washington Post, December 21, 2006.
257 And, after a flap: “Romney Abolishes Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth,” Associated Press, July 21, 2006.
258 “He dealt a death blow”: Interview with David LaFontaine, 2011.
258 “I stood at the center”: Adam Nagourney, “Republican Hopefuls Seek Advantage on Social Issues,” The New York Times, March 3, 2007.
258 “I know there are some”: Interview with Mitt Romney.
258 The liberal House speaker: Scott Helman, “A Breakfast Best Served Cold,” The Boston Globe, March 20, 2006.
259 “It’s almost as though”: Interview with Richard Tisei, 2007.
259 A majority of voters: Lisa Wangsness, “Voters Voice Regard, Regret over Romney,” The Boston Globe, December 26, 2006.
Chapter 10: Health Care Revolutionary
261 It was a sunny October afternoon: Interview with Richard Whitney, 2011.
263 a “doubting Thomas”: Interview with Thomas Stemberg, 2011.
263 “It struck me”: Interview with Mitt Romney, 2011.
263 “You can find a way”: Mitt Romney, “Health Care for Everyone? We Found a Way,” The Wall Street Journal, April 11, 2006.
264 “The next thing I know”: Interview with Thomas Stemberg.
264 “In the same bipartisan fashion”: Mitt Romney, “My Plan for Massachusetts Health Insurance Reform,” The Boston Globe, November 21, 2004.
264 “This administration hasn’t been willing”: Benjamin Gedan, “Romney Plan on Health Insurance Questioned,” The Boston Globe, November 22, 2004.
264 “We’re basically stalemated”: Benjamin Gedan and Scott S. Greenberger, “Kennedy Lauds Romney for Airing Plan,” The Boston Globe, November 24, 2004.
265 Romney had provided: Interview with Stacey Sachs, 2011.
265 His first secretary: Ronald Preston, “Health Care Reform: Covering the Commonwealth’s Uninsured Residents,” May 3, 2004.
265 “You were talking”: Interview with Christine Ferguson, 2011.
265 And the picture that emerged: “Commonwealth Care,” PowerPoint presentation, Massachusetts State Archives, February 28, 2005.
266 Gruber had a computer model: Interview with Amy Lischko, 2011.
266 “made enormous sense”: Interview with Jonathan Gruber, 2011.
266 “They were making the realpolitik argument”: Ibid.
266 “We discussed the need”: Interview with Amy Lischko.
267 “Everybody in the room”: Interviews with Timothy Murphy, 2007.
267 In the early 1990s: Stuart M. Butler, “The Heritage Consumer Choice Health Plan,” Heritage Foundation, March 5, 1992; Robert E. Moffit, “Personal Freedom, Responsibility, and Mandates,” Health Affairs, January 1994.
267 One of the early GOP advocates: Health Equity and Access Reform Today Act, introduced November 23, 1993, by John Chafee and twenty cosponsors.
268 “What about the individual requirement?”: Interviews with Andrew Dreyfus and Timothy Murphy, 2011.
268 “No more free riding”: Scott S. Greenberger, “Romney Eyes Penalties for Those Lacking Insurance,” The Boston Globe, June 22, 2005.
269 “eureka moment”: Interview with Timothy Murphy, 2011.
269 a higher percentage of employers offered: Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy, “Massachusetts Employer Survey 2007.”
269 Massachusetts, too: Randall R. Bovbjerg, Alison Evans Cuellar, and John Holahan, “Market Competition and Uncompensated Care Pools,” Urban Institute, March 2000, http://www.urban.org/publications/309525.html.
269 It was also one: Leigh Wachenheim and Hans Leida, “The Impact of Guaranteed Issue and Community Rating Reform on Individual Insurance Markets,” America’s Health Insurance Plans, July 10, 2007.
269 But by the time: Dolores Kong, “Beacon Hill Reopens Health Care Debate,” The Boston Globe, May 1, 2005; interview with Bruce Bullen, 2011.
269 Leading the way: Interviews with Jack Connors, 2011.
270 But he faced an obstacle: Interview with John Sasso, 2011.
270 O’Donnell warned Sasso: Interviews with Joseph O’Donnell and John Sasso, 2011.
270 “I’ve got to admit”: Mitt Romney, “Ted’s Attack for Success,” The Boston Globe, January 30, 1995.
270 When the three sat down: Interviews with Joseph O’Donnell and John Sasso, 2011.
270 “This was talking about policy”: Interview with Mitt Romney.
271 On January 14, 2005: Alice Dembner and Rick Klein, “Mass., US Reach Deal on Funding; Averts Major Cut in Medicaid Match,” The Boston Globe, January 15, 2005.
271 “I was never absolutely sure”: Interview with Edward Kennedy, 2007.
271 “People kept coming down”: Interview with Stacey Sachs.
271 Neither Kennedy n
or his staff: Ibid.
272 “It didn’t go as smooth”: Interview with Mitt Romney.
272 “Romney knew his best chance”: Interview with Alan Macdonald, 2011.
272 In early December 2005: Scott S. Greenberger, “Kennedy Joins Mass. Healthcare Push,” The Boston Globe, December 5, 2005.
273 The state missed: Interview with Timothy Murphy, 2011.
273 “The plane is circling”: Ibid.
273 “How often does the governor”: Interview with Robert Travaglini, 2007.
273 About two weeks later: Interview with Salvatore DiMasi, 2007.
273 The group of business leaders: Christopher Rowland, “Health Executives Emerge as State’s New Power Players,” The Boston Globe, March 13, 2006.
273 The next night: Interview with Robert Travaglini, 2011.
274 “Today, Massachusetts has set itself apart”: Scott Helman, “Mass. Bill Requires Health Insurance,” The Boston Globe, April 4, 2006.
274 “We are where we’d hoped”: Mitt Romney, press conference, March 3, 2006.
275 $45 million was the estimate: Helman, “Mass. Bill Requires Health Insurance.”
276 “It didn’t bother me”: Interview with Robert Travaglini, 2011.
276 An audience of several hundred VIPs: “Signing of an Act Providing Access to Affordable, Quality, Accountable Health Care,” video, City of Boston Cable Office video library.
276 Privately, Romney had been uneasy: Interview with former Romney aide, 2011.
277 “I have to admit”: Mitt Romney, press availability, April 12, 2006.
277 “We carried out an experiment”: Interview with Mitt Romney.
277 “I don’t know”: Interview with Michael Leavitt, 2007.
277 A detailed examination: Brian C. Mooney, “ ‘RomneyCare’—A Revolution That Basically Worked,” The Boston Globe, June 26, 2011.
278 Those are the lowest: “Health Insurance Coverage in Massachusetts: Results from 2008–2010 Massachusetts Health Insurance Surveys,” Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy, December 2010, http://www.mass.gov/Eeohhs2/docs/dhcfp/r/pubs/10/mhis_report_12-2010.pdf.
278 Recent U.S. Census data: U.S. Census Bureau, Health Insurance Historical Tables, www.census.gov/hhes/www/hlthins/data/historical/HIB_tables.html.
278 Many more businesses: “Massachusetts Employer Survey 2010,” Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy, July 2011, http://www.mass.gov/Eeohhs2/docs/dhcfp/r/pubs/11/mes_results_2010.pdf.
278 And support for the requirement: Kay Lazar, “Support for Health Law Rises; Residents Split on Coverage Mandate,” The Boston Globe, June 5, 2011.
279 “I was a little concerned”: Mitt Romney, appearance at National Review Institute conference, Washington, D.C., January 27, 2007.
279 (Romney later contended): Interview with Mitt Romney, 2007.
279 He later blamed: David S. Bernstein, “Romney Rewrites, Sampler,” Boston Phoenix, February 10, 2011, http://thephoenix.com/Blogs/talkingpolitics.
279 “A lot of pundits”: Matt Viser, “Romney Says He Stands by Mass. Law; Offers a Plan Enabling States on Health Care,” The Boston Globe, May 13, 2011.
279 He recounted an instance: Interview with Mitt Romney.
279 “Significant successes”: Interview with Brian Gilmore, 2007.
279 “I’m not naive enough”: Scott Helman, “Romney Exits with Pomp, Ambition; Mixed Legacy: Health Plan, Jobs, Fee Hikes,” The Boston Globe, January 4, 2007.
280 “The truth is”: Interview with Mitt Romney, 2007.
280 On the evening of January 3, 2007: Andrea Estes and Scott Helman, “Romney Exits with Pomp, Ambition; Ends Term, Takes 1st Formal Step for White House Bid,” The Boston Globe, January 4, 2007.
Chapter 11: A Right Turn on the Presidential Trail
281 “I’m not changing my religion”: Interviews with Doug Gross, Richard Schwarm, and third individual at Ritz-Carlton meeting, 2011.
282 The things that troubled Gross: According to Romney’s spokesman, Eric Fehrnstrom, Romney would not discuss what happened in the failed presidential campaign, saying, “I can’t imagine a more unproductive use of our time.” Interview with Eric Ferhnstrom, 2011.
283 perception—phony: 2006 PowerPoint presentation for Mitt Romney campaign.
284 “optimistic, conservative leader”: Ibid.
284 “There is a perception”: Harvard Institute of Politics, Campaign for President: The Campaign Managers Speak (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009), 17. See also “Dole Institute of Politics Post Election Conference,” www.doleinstitute.org/documents/Post-Election08-Transcript1.pdf.
284 A poll: Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg Poll, published in The Hotline, July 5, 2006; Gallup Poll, October 3, 2006, Gallup News Service. (For comparison, the Gallup Poll said that 40 percent of Americans believed the country was not ready for an African-American president.)
285 “You can’t pay me”: Interview with Mark DeMoss, 2011.
286 “You do understand”: Interview with Richard Land, 2011.
286 Romney promised to think about it: Kennedy’s speech is included as an appendix in a book written by Land, which Land presented to Romney. The book is Richard Land, The Divided States of America: What Liberals and Conservatives Get Wrong About Faith and Politics (Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, 2011).
286 “There is always”: Interviews with Richard Land and Mark DeMoss.
286 “dive right”: Interview with Romney aide, 2011.
287 “Svengali,” “mastermind,” “alter ego”: Interviews with Romney aides, 2011.
287 It was Murphy who: Brian C. Mooney, “Romney Guru Thrives in Political ‘Show Business,’ ” The Boston Globe, June 12, 2005.
288 “sheer brilliance”: Mitt Romney, Turnaround: Crisis, Leadership, and the Olympic Games (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2007), 381.
288 “a pro-life Mormon”: John J. Miller, “Matinee Mitt—The Governor of Massachusetts May Soon Be Appearing in a (Political) Theater Near You,” The National Review, June 20, 2005.
288 I’m out: Interviews with Romney aide, 2011.
288 “Mike Murphy grew up”: Interview with Doug Gross.
288 “Beth said, ‘I don’t want to be’ ”: Interview with Romney aide, 2011.
289 “Win early”: Interviews with Romney aides. Myers declined comment.
289 Romney ended the day: Scott Helman, “On to a New Campaign Trail—Romney Event Nets More than $6.5M,” The Boston Globe, January 9, 2007.
289 “akin to a nightmare”: Michael Levenson, “Top Spender Romney Could Soon Run Short,” The Boston Globe, October 15, 2007.
289 “A loan’s a loan”: Scott Helman, “Romney Tops GOP in Race for Funds,” The Boston Globe, April 3, 2007.
289 In fact, Romney eventually loaned: Michael Kranish, “Romney Not Getting His $45M Back, Says He Won’t Seek Gifts to Repay Campaign Loans,” The Boston Globe, July 17, 2008.
289 Bruce Keough: Interview with Bruce Keough, 2011.
290 “the nation’s second-least-churchgoing state”: Frank Newport, “Mississippians Go to Church the Most; Vermonters, Least,” www.gallup.com/poll/125999/mississippians-go-church-most-vermonters-least.aspx.
291 “That was an argument”: Interview with Richard Schwarm.
291 The memo noted: Romney campaign strategy memo by South Carolina advisers.
291 “didn’t want to deal with it”: Interview with Romney campaign aides, 2011.
292 In his speech he emphasized: Mitt Romney, announcement speech, February 14, 2007.
292 He felt as if everyone: Interview with Romney campaign aide, 2011. ABC-TV/Washington Post poll, cited in Associated Press, “National Presidential Preference Poll Results,” February 28, 2007.
293 “effectively prochoice”: Romney-O’Brien gubernatorial debate, October 30, 2002. Romney frequently acknowledged that he had been “effectively prochoice” including during an interview on Fox News Channel on January 6, 2008.
294 An analy
sis of advertising: Nielsen Co., analysis of 2008 presidential campaign commercials, spreadsheet prepared at request of The Boston Globe.
294 “He’s not a very notional leader”: Thomas Beaumont, “ ‘CEO’ Takes Businesslike Approach,” Des Moines Register, December 26, 2007.
295 “we had a lot of data”: Interview with Doug Gross; interviews with Huckabee aides, 2011.
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