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Institute of Politics (IOP) fellow Ben Coes, the manager of Romney’s successful 2002 bid for governor, brought both the Governor and Republican political strategist and former IOP fellow Mike Murphy to Kirkland as part of his IOP study group on how to win a political campaign...
...ensure that his opponent would not exert the same level of control in the 2002 race, Romney named Mike Murphy—who recently served as the chief strategist for Arnold Schwarzenneger’s gubernatorial campaign in California—the lead strategist of his campaign...
...Democratic stronghold. And in Philadelphia, a Republican challenge to Mayor John Street fell way short. In San Francisco, the most conservative Democrat, the sponsor of an initiative to reduce panhandlers, seemed poised to win - suggesting that Giuliani-style governance remains popular in liberal bastions. In New York City, mayor Mike Bloomberg?s effort to replace the city's primary system with the kind of non-partisan slates found in other cities got trounced. It does not bode well for his reelection chances...
...patterns himself after the pliable Mike Richter, relying on footwork and slinky-like flexibility. The other fills up the net with his 6’4”, 190-pound frame and idolized Patrick Roy, trying to mimic his calculated positioning and rebound control. One talks every bit as freely—though more substantively—as that guy who dominates section discussions. The other is not often interviewed and speaks in somewhat quieter tones when he does talk to reporters...
...idiotic. Everyone is a caricature, manufactured and inauthentic. My father is depicted as some demented evangelist, going on about Armageddon every chance he gets. My mother is cast as a female Attila the Hun, and I and my siblings are unrecognizable to me. There are absurdities, like depictions of Mike Deaver and political aides camping out at our house during my father?s early political career - in every scene, there they are, hanging around the house day and night. I suppose this is meant to explain why, when my sister Maureen visits, my mother tells her to sleep...