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Governor’s Council, blamed by Romney for rejecting GOP judges, not viewed as partisan

By Noah Bierman

 |  Globe Staff  

  December 16, 2011

During last night’s Republican presidential primary debate, Mitt Romney blamed an obscure pre-colonial body – the Massachusetts Governor’s Council – for his failure to appoint more conservative judges when he was governor of Massachusetts.

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