By now, you’ve all heard the news of Mitt Romney and the car elevators he had installed in his home. Car elevators – you know, that machine that brings his cars from their storage in his home to the street level. The price tag for such a luxury item is about $55,000, but apparently car elevators are a must have for the Republican presidential candidate.
But did you know that when Romney was governor in Massachusetts he vetoed multiple bills that would provide elevators to the disabled? The report;
On June 26, 2006 Romney vetoed an improvement project with the price tag of $40,000 with his line item veto. The project would have allocated the money to Woburn Development Authority for improvements to an elevator to meet the standards set in the ADA.
Also on that day Romney vetoed an additional $25,000 to the Braintree, Massachusetts Council on Aging. The money was again proposed to meet improvements with the ADA.
Romney justified the cuts saying the programs along with others he vetoed “would be nice to have, but which we cannot justify paying for out of rainy day funds. A smaller number of these projects are just pure pork.”
Wow.. your comparing personal money with the responsibilities of a state's money? Firstly, what he does with his money is his business just as what you do with yours is yours. But what he does as Governor of Massachusetts with that state's money is all the citizenry's business and it was, for whatever reason, his belief from research and staff's findings, that those particular items weren't feasible as there wasn't funds available to pay for it and it would've had to come from the rainy day fund. So. they suggestion in your article (and the others) is that he's supposed to put his own money out for the elevators instead? That's just not something one would or should expect any public official to do; it's certainly not in any job description I've ever read for a politician.