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Mitt Romney (born 1947) is an American businessman who was Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and the Republican nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 election. He was raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, by his parents Lenore and George Romney, and spent two years in France as a Mormon missionary. He married Ann Davies in 1969, with whom he has had five children. After studying at Brigham Young and Harvard universities, he joined the management consultancy Bain & Company before co-founding the spin-off investment firm Bain Capital. He unsuccessfully ran as the Republican candidate in the 1994 Massachusetts election for Senate against Ted Kennedy. He relaunched his political career after successfully running the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the 2002 Winter Olympics. Elected Governor of Massachusetts in 2002, he helped enact state health care reform legislation, the first of its kind in America. Romney won the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, becoming the first Mormon to be a major party presidential nominee, but lost the election to Barack Obama by a 332–206 electoral college margin and by 51–47 percent in the popular vote. (Full article...)

UcuchaBot (talk) 23:01, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Target of Fort Lee lane closures

Please go to Talk:Fort Lee lane closure scandal #Target of Fort Lee lane closures and provide feedback.

There is overwhelming evidence based on written communications and news reports that Fort Lee Mayor Sokolich was "apparently" the target for political retribution for the lane closures with the associated traffic jams.

Even the internal investigation report commissioned by Christie's governor's office concluded that Sokolich was the target based on political retribution, while leaving the motives for that retribution still unclear. Critics of that report do not question the basis for the conclusion about Sokolich being the target of that political retribution.

The Wikipedia article can safely state that Sokolich was "apparently" the target of the traffic jams caused by the lane closures based on overwhelming amount of reliable sources already in the article. Wondering55 (talk) 14:04, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

That is already in the lead, last para:

One theory, frequently cited from the beginning of the controversy as to why the lanes were closed, was that it was political retribution against Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich, a Democrat, for not endorsing Christie, a Republican, in the 2013 gubernatorial election.[21][25] Investigators are also examining other possible motives, such as whether the closures were intended to affect a major real estate development project, which was a top priority for Sokolich, that was underway at the Fort Lee bridge access point.[25][26] Cwobeel (talk) 14:53, 30 March 2014 (UTC)