Romney comes down on Obama’s ‘building businesses’ speech during Roxbury visit
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney criticized President Barack Obama’s comments about business while touring the Middlesex Truck & Coach in Roxbury Thursday afternoon. The former Massachusetts governor said Obama was not supportive of small businesses after the president said business owners did not achieve success on their own, according to a live video stream of [...]
Warren accepts Brown’s debate challenges, agrees to four televised debates
On the heels of her opponent’s acceptance of three public debates over the past two days, Democratic Senate nominee Elizabeth Warren accepted U.S. Sen. Scott Brown’s offer, and her campaign has announced that she will participate in four televised events. Brown has accepted three debate offers, all of which the Warren campaign had not responded [...]
Brown, Warren among top earners, tax records show
Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren released their tax returns Friday, revealing that both senatorial candidates earn close to the top percentile of income in the nation. The releases, which document the candidates’ tax records for a number of years until 2011, came after a request from The Boston Globe. Warren agreed to release [...]
BU students, faculty react to Santorum’s campaign suspension
Although Rick Santorum suspended his presidential campaign on Tuesday, Boston University students and faculty said he was never likely to defeat Mitt Romney and clinch the Republican presidential nomination. “We have carried the torch. High,” Santorum said in a statement from him and his wife on his website. “Together we have fought for the principles [...]
Super Tuesday puts Romney closer to Republican nod
Amidst chanting of “We want Mitt,” former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said he promises to restore America, after he won 72.1 percent of the vote in the Commonwealth’s Republican primary election. Romney took the state’s primary election with 38 of the 41 delegates up for grabs in Massachusetts, while former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, of [...]
