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[UT-02] Josh Romney decides against running for Congress, for now
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Mar 03, 2008 01:19pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Salt Lake Tribune |
| News Date | Saturday, March 1, 2008 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Thomas Burr
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 03/01/2008 03:50:57 PM MST
Posted: 3:51 PM- WASHINGTON - Josh Romney, the middle son of former presidential candidate Mitt Romney, toyed with the idea of running for Congress in Utah but says now he's definitely not going to jump into the race this year.
Josh Romney, 32, who lives in Millcreek outside of Salt Lake City, says after zipping across the United States for more than a year, including visiting all 99 counties in Iowa, he wants to take a break from politics before plunging into another campaign.
"Just having come off a tough election with my dad, I think the family's not quite ready to hop back into another race," Josh Romney said Saturday. "It's going to be nice to spend some time with the kids and take some time out of politics."
Two years from now, though, Romney says he may launch a campaign to oust Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson from his 2nd District seat.
"I guess I'm not ruling anything out or ruling anything in," he says. But, "this one I'm definitely ruling out."
The Romney family is extremely popular in conservative Utah, where Mitt Romney pulled 90 percent of the Republican vote before suspending his campaign in February. Mitt Romney owns a home in the state, ran the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and shares the same Mormon faith as more than 60 percent of the state's resident. |
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