Romney, Mitt

After graduation, Mitt Romney entered Stanford University , where he studied for two semesters. From Stanford, Mitt went to France , where he was engaged in missionary work.

Upon his return from France, Romney enrolled at Brigham Young University , graduating in 1971 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. After that, he entered Harvard University , receiving in 1975 the degree of Doctor of Law and Master of Business Administration (MBA) ^[2] .

In 1994, he tried to run for the US Senate from Massachusetts, but lost to Edward Kennedy , who had held the post since 1962.

Chairman of the Winter Olympics Organizing Committee in Salt Lake City (2002) . Governor of Massachusetts in the years 2003 - 2007 .

He was one of the contenders for the US presidential nominees from the Republican Party in the 2008 elections , but on February 7, after the “ supervisor ”, withdrew his candidacy in favor of McCain (at this point he had 294 delegates to the party congress, McCain - 707 votes, Haqkabi - 195 votes).

According to the declaration, the income of Romney and his wife in 2011 amounted to 14 million dollars. They paid $ 1.9 million in taxes. At the same time, about 30 percent (four million) of the family income of a US presidential candidate was spent on charity. All the state of Romney is estimated at 200 million dollars ^[3] .

Romney was a US presidential candidate in the 2012 election. ^[4] He won the party primaries in the Republican Party in several states ^[5] . During the election campaign, there was an embarrassment when a team of Mitt Romney released a free mobile application for Apple ’s iPhone and other iOS devices in May, inserting the words “America is better with Mitt” into the sent images with a typo in the form of the word “Amercia” ^[6] , which caused a lot of ridicule in the media and the Internet.

Married to Ann Romney. Mitt has five sons: Taggart (born 1970), Matthew (born 1971), Joshua (born 1975), Benjamin (born 1978) and Craig (born 1981).

Like many Republicans, Romney is a religious conservative and proponent of family values. He is a supporter of a complete ban on abortions (with the exception of pregnancy from rape and for medical reasons), an opponent of same-sex marriage and civil unions . Going to seek a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in the future. Romney - a supporter of the death penalty , which he tried to introduce in Massachusetts , taking up the post of state governor.

Romney supported most of the economic initiatives of George W. Bush and offers to return many of them (in particular, the old health care system). He opposes the nationalization of enterprises on the verge of bankruptcy. His program proposes a tax cut and at the same time a reduction in the budget deficit due to spending cuts. He opposed the notorious copyright law SOPA , introduced to the Congress by his party member .

Opponent of the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol . Romney expressed doubts that global warming is associated with human activity. If he wins the election, he plans to seriously limit the powers of the Environmental Protection Agency. Romney also stands for maximum development of American oil fields and seeks US independence from energy imports.

Known for his harsh statements about the leadership of Russia , China and Iran . In his book “No Excuses: The Cause of American Greatness,” he called Russia “America’s geopolitical enemy No. 1” ^[7] . Preventing the development of nuclear weapons by Iran, he calls the top security priority for the United States. He is concerned about the growing influence of China , he considers the economic policy of the PRC to be “unfair” and is ready to impose sanctions if such a policy continues. According to him, “the trade war with China is the last thing he would do, but he cannot tolerate the US trade defeat.”

He supported the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan , and criticized Obama for not actively supporting Libyan rebels during the civil war in Libya . Like George W. Bush, Romney supports the pre-trial, indefinite detention of terror suspects and the use of “special interrogation techniques” on suspects ^[8] ; commented on the Guantanamo prison .

In 2012, Mother Jones magazine published a video in which Romney calls Obama voters “not able to provide for themselves and living at the expense of the state” ^{[9] [10]} .

• Mitt Romney official website
• Romney, Mitt - an article in Lentapedia . year 2012.