Visit with Governor Mitt Romney's Staff

Visit with Governor Mitt Romney Staff
August 2, 2007

On August 2nd, Fred Plett, Sarah Jane Knoy, Ruth Heden, and a representative from the Center for Community Change met With Jim Merrill, State Director, and Jamie Burnett, Political Director of the Mitt Romney Campaign. Jim and Jamie seemed most receptive, and had the same concern that we’ve heard from other Presidential campaigns, Mitt Romney’s availability the week of the event. Presidential campaigns only have a 2-3 week lead time on their candidate availability, and even then the situation can be fluid. They said, as of August 2, nothing had been finalized for the month of August, even though they were already into the month. They thought that the health care question would be a natural for Mitt Romney, since he set up a Massachusetts plan. None of the other questions scared them, and they saw it as a good opportunity to answer them.
All in all, they were supportive of his attendance, but probably wouldn’t be able to commit to it until at least September 1st.

Respectfully submitted,

Fred Plett