What Rick Santorum wanted from Mitt Romney meeting
Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum sat down, Obama might break a new fundraising record (with some help from Clooney), some sniping in Virginia and something Charlie Rangel wants to know.
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WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED:
* Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney
met privately with Rick Santorum today in Pittsburgh for about 90 minutes. Romney said before the meeting that he wasn’t expecting an endorsement today, and he didn’t get one. Santorum adviser John Brabender said the former Pennsylvania senator wanted to discuss manufacturing, health care and “economic solutions that are pro-family.”
* A blow for Michigan Democrats: former Republican Rep. Joe Schwarz, who was considering running against. Rep. Tim Walberg (R) as a Democrat, has decided against a bid. He said the 7th district is “eminently winnable” for Democrats, but he doesn’t live inside the lines and at age 74 wasn’t sure he could serve long enough to be effective.
* Who said there’s bad blood between the two Republicans running for governor in Virginia next year? Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling is wishing Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli well on his trip to Iowa this weekend. “In fact,” Bolling’s office said in a statement, “we would be pleased to help his office with scheduling as many out-of-state speaking engagements for him as possible over the next year.”
* Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) is posting his emails and those of a dozen top staffers online for the public to read, a pro-transparency intiative called “Project Sunburst.” It won’t replace public records request, but the idea is to relieve some of that pressure by posting some of the most-requested emails.
WHAT YOU SHOULDN’T MISS:
* An dinner
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Posted by RobertButler
on May 4 2012. Filed under 2012 Presidential Campaign.
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