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The event marked the second day for the former Massachusetts governor's "Earn It" bus tour, which crisscrossed New Hampshire — from Keene to Lancaster — in advance of the Jan. 10 New Hampshire primary.
Former New Hampshire governor John Sununu Sr. said the next president needs to have experience as a governor. Sununu says he's "committed himself" to making sure Romney takes the White House. Then he told the audience members to each find two people who they can convince to vote for Romney.
"If you do that, I promise you President Obama will end up being a one-term president and you will have spent the evening with the next president of the United States," said Sununu.
Romney also received an endorsement from Carroll County Attorney Tom Dewhurst who called Romney "a man of action."
As for gifts, Al Risch gave Romney a Mount Washington-themed calendar, and former Kennett teacher Brian P. Wiggin presented Romney a bottle of chocolate milk, one of Romney's favorite treats. Risch was a volunteer at the Salt Lake City Olympics, which Romney headed.
"This is unbelievable, thank you," said Romney about the gifts.
The town hall meeting wasn't all chocolate milk and calendars for Romney. He also had to contend with a number of questions covering difficult subjects.
Conway resident Steve Steiner said the war on drugs was being ignored during this election cycle. About 11 years ago, Steiner lost a 19-year-old son to an Oxycontin overdose. Since then, Steiner started an organization called Dads And Mad Moms Against Drug Dealers (DAMMAD).
"What I'm looking for is a president and a first lady to use the bully pulpit at the White House like the Reagans did," said Steiner.
Romney replied he wouldn't legalize drugs but that the war on drugs isn't as effective as it could be. Romney said he would launch a national public relations campaign against drug abuse.
"Our kids take (drugs) because they think it's cool but I don't think they'd think it's cool if they knew people were dying as a result of that happening," said Romney of the drug-fueled violence in Mexico and around the world.
After the meeting, Steiner said he was glad Romney wouldn't legalize drugs. However, Steiner said it remains to be seen if Romney will really make drug-abuse prevention a priority.
One man said the unemployment rate is going down and wondered if that meant the county was heading in the right direction.
All recessions eventually end, said Romney. But the problem with this recession is it has taken much longer for the jobs to return. The recovery has been so slow because of the uncertainty created by new regulations from the Obama Administration.
"It was two summers ago vice president Biden said we're in the recovery summer and that didn't happen," said Romney.
Later, Romney predicted America will face severe economic woes if the $15 trillion national debt continues to increase. By next year, the debt will go up to $16 trillion, which is 80 or 90 percent of the nation's Gross Domestic Product.
"We're now getting close to the Italy-type level and the Greece-type level," said Romney. "We will have a catastrophe unlike anything we've ever known in this country unless we finally get control of our budget."
The Obama Administration has also interfered with the free market by giving some businesses advantages over others. As an example, Romney, a former venture capitalist, said Obama gave $500 million to a now-defunct company called Solyndra.
"When government starts to play the role of choosing the winners and losers it scares everyone else away," said Romney. "What the president did made it less likely solar will be commercialized, not more."
As for the Middle East, Romney stressed that he takes the role of commander in chief seriously. Right now, Afghan military is being trained so U.S. forces can leave by the end of 2014. For now, that seems like a good deadline, said Romney who would be willing to adjust it if need be.
Romney called this era "the most dangerous and fragile" time for Israel that he's seen in his adult life. Israel is under threat because of chaos in Egypt and Syria, the latter being a key ally of Iran. Romney is anxious to see Syrian president Bashar al-Assad out of power. Romney was disappointed Obama didn't interfere in the Iranian elections when protesters were "crying for freedom."
"If there are nations like Syria were there are dissidents that are standing up to tyrants, we should be encouraging and supporting those dissidents with our rhetoric, potentially with our covert capabilities and I wouldn't (rule out) military support of some kind," said Romney. "The decision to involve American kinetic force, our men and women, in a place of danger is a very high threshold decision."
Jim Martel, of Sandwich, and his young son, Ben, wanted to know what Romney would do to bring back American manufacturing.
"I think he answered it pretty well and I hope he gets more stuff made in America and gets the country out of debt," said Ben Martel who would vote for Romney if he were old enough.
The elder Martel, who is self-employed as a long-distance truck driver, said he believes Romney has the skills to get the U.S. out of debt. Martel also believes Obama has created too many regulations. Martel made a reference to Ross Perot's claim Mexico would take American jobs if a then-proposed free trade agreement were signed.
China is a bigger problem than Mexico in terms of outsourcing jobs, Romney said. Romney alleged China steals American intellectual property, hacks American computers and manipulates its currency to make its products cheaper.
The cost of higher education was of prime concern for some, including Jackson grandfather Dr. Gerald Carrier and college student Kallie Durkit who goes to college in Ohio.
Carrier said he was particularly troubled by the high debt loads on medical and dental school students.
Romney replied young people will start questioning the value of college education by looking for schools that can provide quality education for a reasonable cost. For instance, there's a school in Florida called Full Sail University, which caters to students studying media and entertainment industries. The school keeps costs down by holding classes 24 hours per day and not having summer breaks. Romney agreed medical school debts are overwhelming. Romney said even his own son is dealing with that problem.
But Durkit questioned Romney's believability. As a college student she didn't believe for-profit schools would really offer good education at a fair price.
"Why should we mobilize for you as a candidate instead of Obama as we did in 2008?" she asked.
Job creators are unenthusiastic about hiring more employees because of Obama's policies, Romney replied. For-profit schools and jails wouldn't necessarily cost more than state-run institutions because free enterprise encourages entrepreneurs to provide goods and services of the best quality for the lowest price. Government is inefficient, he said.
"What I can promise you is this," said Romney to Durkit. "When you get out of college if I'm president, you will have a job. If president Obama is reelected you will not be able to get a job."
Durkit, who was on vacation with her parents, said she enjoys getting to meet the candidates in New Hampshire.
"They don't stop quite as often in Ohio," said Durkit.
Durkit didn't feel like Romney's answer was realistic but says the former governor has the best chance of beating the president. Still, Durkit favors Obama over Romney.
As for immigration, Romney said he'd develop a much clearer path to American citizenship. The government has to be selective about who it lets in because there is high demand to enter the country.
Romney's proposed immigration process would be based on awarding points to applicants based on their education, job skills, and family within the United States. Applicants would be able to look up online where they are in the queue for citizenship and they would accumulate points as they wait.
One woman who lived in Washington D.C. said she's never seen partisanship as bad as it is now. She said Obama eschewed his promise to work with Republicans. She wondered if Romney would undercut the Democrats.
Romney replied Obama took the Democratic Congress for granted and didn't know how to react when his party was swept out in 2010. In contrast, Romney said as the Massachusetts governor he had to cooperate with a Democratic legislature. He did that by developing solid relationships with the Senate president and House speaker. As an example of bipartisanship, Romney said they were able to pass a law mandating that Massachusetts High School students pass a test in order to graduate.
"We recognized the importance of high standards," said Romney of himself and the then Massachusetts legislature.
Romney told personal stories about how he met his wife (which Ann Romney had to correct slightly) and about his childhood family trips taken in his parents' Rambler.
Ann Romney said her husband had the skills capability to turn the country around. She also described him as a loving husband who stood by her side when she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. The couple has five children and 16 grandchildren.
"I'm really serious about this, I want you to really fix it," said Ann Romney repeating what she told Mitt Romney. "We're not doing this for nothing."
Romney's campaign theme song is "Born Free" by Kid Rock, which seems somewhat of an unlikely blue collar choice for such a white collar man. A reporter asked Romney about his favorite music.
"I have about 1,500 songs that I play in a rotation," said Romney. "Some of my favorites are from Roy Orbison, Clint Black, of course The Beatles, Nat King Cole, Louie Armstrong, the Rolling Stones. It's a wide array of country and early rock. I also have the Killers, which is a more recent band."
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CONWAY — Mitt Romney fielded tough questions while accepting gifts and endorsements during a town hall meeting with about 165 people at Kennett Middle School on Thursday.
The event marked the second day for the former Massachusetts governor's "Earn It" bus tour, which crisscrossed New Hampshire — from Keene to Lancaster — in advance of the Jan. 10 New Hampshire primary.
Former New Hampshire governor John Sununu Sr. said the next president needs to have experience as a governor. Sununu says he's "committed himself" to making sure Romney takes the White House. Then he told the audience members to each find two people who they can convince to vote for Romney.
"If you do that, I promise you President Obama will end up being a one-term president and you will have spent the evening with the next president of the United States," said Sununu.
Romney also received an endorsement from Carroll County Attorney Tom Dewhurst who called Romney "a man of action."
As for gifts, Al Risch gave Romney a Mount Washington-themed calendar, and former Kennett teacher Brian P. Wiggin presented Romney a bottle of chocolate milk, one of Romney's favorite treats. Risch was a volunteer at the Salt Lake City Olympics, which Romney headed.
"This is unbelievable, thank you," said Romney about the gifts.
The town hall meeting wasn't all chocolate milk and calendars for Romney. He also had to contend with a number of questions covering difficult subjects.
Conway resident Steve Steiner said the war on drugs was being ignored during this election cycle. About 11 years ago, Steiner lost a 19-year-old son to an Oxycontin overdose. Since then, Steiner started an organization called Dads And Mad Moms Against Drug Dealers (DAMMAD).
"What I'm looking for is a president and a first lady to use the bully pulpit at the White House like the Reagans did," said Steiner.
Romney replied he wouldn't legalize drugs but that the war on drugs isn't as effective as it could be. Romney said he would launch a national public relations campaign against drug abuse.
"Our kids take (drugs) because they think it's cool but I don't think they'd think it's cool if they knew people were dying as a result of that happening," said Romney of the drug-fueled violence in Mexico and around the world.
After the meeting, Steiner said he was glad Romney wouldn't legalize drugs. However, Steiner said it remains to be seen if Romney will really make drug-abuse prevention a priority.
One man said the unemployment rate is going down and wondered if that meant the county was heading in the right direction.
All recessions eventually end, said Romney. But the problem with this recession is it has taken much longer for the jobs to return. The recovery has been so slow because of the uncertainty created by new regulations from the Obama Administration.
"It was two summers ago vice president Biden said we're in the recovery summer and that didn't happen," said Romney.
Later, Romney predicted America will face severe economic woes if the $15 trillion national debt continues to increase. By next year, the debt will go up to $16 trillion, which is 80 or 90 percent of the nation's Gross Domestic Product.
"We're now getting close to the Italy-type level and the Greece-type level," said Romney. "We will have a catastrophe unlike anything we've ever known in this country unless we finally get control of our budget."
The Obama Administration has also interfered with the free market by giving some businesses advantages over others. As an example, Romney, a former venture capitalist, said Obama gave $500 million to a now-defunct company called Solyndra.
"When government starts to play the role of choosing the winners and losers it scares everyone else away," said Romney. "What the president did made it less likely solar will be commercialized, not more."
As for the Middle East, Romney stressed that he takes the role of commander in chief seriously. Right now, Afghan military is being trained so U.S. forces can leave by the end of 2014. For now, that seems like a good deadline, said Romney who would be willing to adjust it if need be.
Romney called this era "the most dangerous and fragile" time for Israel that he's seen in his adult life. Israel is under threat because of chaos in Egypt and Syria, the latter being a key ally of Iran. Romney is anxious to see Syrian president Bashar al-Assad out of power. Romney was disappointed Obama didn't interfere in the Iranian elections when protesters were "crying for freedom."
"If there are nations like Syria were there are dissidents that are standing up to tyrants, we should be encouraging and supporting those dissidents with our rhetoric, potentially with our covert capabilities and I wouldn't (rule out) military support of some kind," said Romney. "The decision to involve American kinetic force, our men and women, in a place of danger is a very high threshold decision."
Jim Martel, of Sandwich, and his young son, Ben, wanted to know what Romney would do to bring back American manufacturing.
"I think he answered it pretty well and I hope he gets more stuff made in America and gets the country out of debt," said Ben Martel who would vote for Romney if he were old enough.
The elder Martel, who is self-employed as a long-distance truck driver, said he believes Romney has the skills to get the U.S. out of debt. Martel also believes Obama has created too many regulations. Martel made a reference to Ross Perot's claim Mexico would take American jobs if a then-proposed free trade agreement were signed.
China is a bigger problem than Mexico in terms of outsourcing jobs, Romney said. Romney alleged China steals American intellectual property, hacks American computers and manipulates its currency to make its products cheaper.
The cost of higher education was of prime concern for some, including Jackson grandfather Dr. Gerald Carrier and college student Kallie Durkit who goes to college in Ohio.
Carrier said he was particularly troubled by the high debt loads on medical and dental school students.
Romney replied young people will start questioning the value of college education by looking for schools that can provide quality education for a reasonable cost. For instance, there's a school in Florida called Full Sail University, which caters to students studying media and entertainment industries. The school keeps costs down by holding classes 24 hours per day and not having summer breaks. Romney agreed medical school debts are overwhelming. Romney said even his own son is dealing with that problem.
But Durkit questioned Romney's believability. As a college student she didn't believe for-profit schools would really offer good education at a fair price.
"Why should we mobilize for you as a candidate instead of Obama as we did in 2008?" she asked.
Job creators are unenthusiastic about hiring more employees because of Obama's policies, Romney replied. For-profit schools and jails wouldn't necessarily cost more than state-run institutions because free enterprise encourages entrepreneurs to provide goods and services of the best quality for the lowest price. Government is inefficient, he said.
"What I can promise you is this," said Romney to Durkit. "When you get out of college if I'm president, you will have a job. If president Obama is reelected you will not be able to get a job."
Durkit, who was on vacation with her parents, said she enjoys getting to meet the candidates in New Hampshire.
"They don't stop quite as often in Ohio," said Durkit.
Durkit didn't feel like Romney's answer was realistic but says the former governor has the best chance of beating the president. Still, Durkit favors Obama over Romney.
As for immigration, Romney said he'd develop a much clearer path to American citizenship. The government has to be selective about who it lets in because there is high demand to enter the country.
Romney's proposed immigration process would be based on awarding points to applicants based on their education, job skills, and family within the United States. Applicants would be able to look up online where they are in the queue for citizenship and they would accumulate points as they wait.
One woman who lived in Washington D.C. said she's never seen partisanship as bad as it is now. She said Obama eschewed his promise to work with Republicans. She wondered if Romney would undercut the Democrats.
Romney replied Obama took the Democratic Congress for granted and didn't know how to react when his party was swept out in 2010. In contrast, Romney said as the Massachusetts governor he had to cooperate with a Democratic legislature. He did that by developing solid relationships with the Senate president and House speaker. As an example of bipartisanship, Romney said they were able to pass a law mandating that Massachusetts High School students pass a test in order to graduate.
"We recognized the importance of high standards," said Romney of himself and the then Massachusetts legislature.
Romney told personal stories about how he met his wife (which Ann Romney had to correct slightly) and about his childhood family trips taken in his parents' Rambler.
Ann Romney said her husband had the skills capability to turn the country around. She also described him as a loving husband who stood by her side when she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. The couple has five children and 16 grandchildren.
"I'm really serious about this, I want you to really fix it," said Ann Romney repeating what she told Mitt Romney. "We're not doing this for nothing."
Romney's campaign theme song is "Born Free" by Kid Rock, which seems somewhat of an unlikely blue collar choice for such a white collar man. A reporter asked Romney about his favorite music.
"I have about 1,500 songs that I play in a rotation," said Romney. "Some of my favorites are from Roy Orbison, Clint Black, of course The Beatles, Nat King Cole, Louie Armstrong, the Rolling Stones. It's a wide array of country and early rock. I also have the Killers, which is a more recent band."
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