Sunday, June 03, 2007

The Five Brothers: Tagg, Josh, Ben, Craig, and Matt "3Kord Killah" Romney

My sons tell me it's time to contribute to their blog with a dispatch from the campaign trail. Boy, are they working hard – and having fun at the same time! I’m told the Five Brothers blog is one of the most popular features on our web site. I guess I can't put this off any longer. This week I found myself in Iowa. At a forum in Sioux Center, attended by more than 250 people, I got the opportunity to answer questions from citizens. It's something we do regularly. We call them "Ask Mitt Anything" forums. Of course, as I tell audiences I meet with, "I don't know everything, but you can ask me anything." And they do. Usually, the questions tend to focus on the same topics – immigration, taxes and spending, the war against terror. But people also ask me about mercury pollution, the diabetes epidemic, the price of corn and just about anything else that pops into their minds. All important topics, to be sure, but I was asked about the U.S. space program and how we stay ahead as a nation when it comes to science and discovery.

The campaign trail is not all about policy and meetings, however. We have had quite a few good laughs. Last week, my finance director Spencer Zwick and I wanted to make some phone calls to several potential donors. We were going to call from my hotel room, but Ann was in her bathrobe getting ready for an event. So, we went down the hall to call from the lobby. Well, Ann figured that she'd just need a minute to slip on her dress and that we could come back to the room to make the calls. So she opened the door, poked her head out and said: "Hey, do you want to come in here?" But we were now out of sight. And right next to the room in the hallway was a hotel maintenance worker. He looked at Ann, got a big grin, pointed to himself and said: "Who, me?" We're still laughing about that one.

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