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    • Subject Terms:
      MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED States
    • Subject Terms:
      ROMNEY, Mitt, 1947-; BULGER, William M., 1934-
    • Abstract:
      The voters of Massachusetts wanted a businessman for governor, and in Mitt Romney they surely got one. He brought in a budget that would slice $3 billion off public spending, cutting health-care services and aid to small towns. Mr Romney has also picked a fight with one of the state's power-brokers: the president of the University of Massachusetts, William Bulger, a former president of the state Senate whose brother is a gangster on the run. Mr Bulger, who probably has enough allies in the legislature to keep his job, has begun to fight back, calling Mr Romney's plans elitist: the rich governor, he maintains, cannot understand the working man's need for affordable education.