One of the signs that Mitt Romney lives in the handsome tan condo on Belmont Hill is the shiny black Ford SUV parked and running in the driveway. In it is a Secret Service agent watching the private road.
To the neighbors, the candidate’s presence on their street is at once unusual and unremarkable: Romney checks the mail. Romney waves hello. Romney comes by in a motorcade. And always, the Secret Service agent.
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Wow. It took a long time, but the Globe finally wrote a humanizing piece about Romney. I grew up in Belmont, and recall the family's quiet dignity. They came across as fine, decent, and apolitical.
Too bad Mitt didn't stay that way.
Kate, what a pathetic partisan remark. Can't you accept that Ann and Mitt Romney are decent people with whom you disagree on some issues?
He seems like a good person, even if he does sleep around.
You're referring to Bill Clinton, I assume? Or is it JFK?
No, Romney, per the article. It is frowned upon because it shows a certain lack of fidelity to one's home town...
Sure, the former Governor celebrates "this physical witness of God’s hand open to all his children" when it comes to his overwhelming temple steeple, but when it comes to a residential hospice applying to locate on the same street as his son's mansion, "compassionate" Tagg successfully lobbies against it since his 3.9 million dollar mansion might "decrease in value." The Romney's family values always have been "us, ourselves, and we," whether in Masssachusetts, New Hampshire, Michigan, or Utah. Why would they be different in the Nation's capital??