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Some of what Mitt acompolished in Mass. Also visit unmarkedpackage’s home page, at the link. He can also put you on a ping list for Mitt, if you desire.

He balanced the budget with no new taxes.
-He was instrumental in passing a bill abolishing a retroactive capital gains tax in the state that would have forced nearly 50,000 taxpayers to pay an additional $200 million in state taxes and fees.
-He knows how to use the veto pen.
-He vetoed the bill providing state funding for human embryonic stem cell research
- He vetoed a bill that provided for the “morning after pill” without a prescription because it is an abortifacient and would have been available to minors without parental notification and consent
- He vetoed legislation which would have redefined Massachusetts longstanding definition of the beginning of human life from fertilization to implantation
- He supported parental notification laws and opposed efforts to weaken parental involvement
- He fought to promote abstinence education in public school classrooms with a program offered by faith-based Boston group Healthy Futures to middle school students.
-Mitt Romney opposed a bill that would have allowed illegal aliens to get driver’s licenses.
- Romney vetoed a bill in 2004 that would have given illegal aliens the right to in-state tuition at public universities.

Filed comprehensive healthcare legislation to provide private high quality, affordable health insurance to all Massachusetts citizens. Currently in a legislative conference committee.
For third year in a row, filed and signed into law a balanced, on-time budget that did not raise taxes.
Proposed and signed “Melanie’s Law,” a tough new drunk driving law that stiffened penalties on drunk drivers and closed legal loopholes that allowed repeat offenders to get behind the wheel.
Filed and signed into law the most significant expansion of military benefits in recent years. The new law reduced to zero the cost members of the Massachusetts National Guard must pay to attend public colleges and universities, increased twenty-fold the death benefit paid to families of members killed in the line of duty, created a new annuity benefit for Gold Star spouses and boosted the amount paid to Gold Star parents.
Convinced the Legislature to abolish a retroactive capital gains tax that would have unjustly forced nearly 50,000 taxpayers to pay additional taxes and fees on transactions that occurred more than three years earlier.
Filed and signed into law property tax relief for senior citizens, helping them to stay in their homes longer.
Proposed and approved a law extending death benefits to the families of volunteer and part-time public safety officers who die in the line of duty.
Signed energy legislation to soften the impact of high home heating costs on low income residents. The law also enabled income-eligible taxpayers to apply for income tax deductions for home heating costs and provided incentives for individuals and businesses to undertake upgrades that promote energy efficiency.
Successfully argued against legislation to provide tuition breaks for illegal aliens.

He did pretty well in a true blue state.