Governor Romney to Announce his Presidential Bid
February 7th, 2007 by eric
Mitt Romney will make his White House bid official on Tuesday, February 13th, 2007. He will make the announcement in his home state of Michigan, at the Henry Ford museum in Dearborn.
The location is not far from Detroit, where his father, Michighan Governor George Romney announced his unsuccessful presidential bid 39 years ago.Â
Mitt Romney was born in Detroit and grew up in the tiny suburb of Bloomfield Hills.
Romney will make his announcement at the Henry Ford Museum, whose Web site calls it a showcase of “the people and ideas that have fired our imaginations and changed our lives.” Ballenger says Romney could promise such inventive thinking in a state whose economy and domestic auto market are in “terrible trouble.”
Romney has tried in his stump speeches so far to define himself as a person who can turn around troubled enterprises. He cites his revival of the struggling Bain & Co., a venture capital firm, and the scandal-plagued Olympics and also notes that Massachusetts wiped out its budget deficit during his single term as governor. –Salt Lake Tribune, February 6, 2007
