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Mitt RomneyTown HallMerrimack, NH 12/26/07TRANSCRIPT:QUESTIONER: [...] You didn't reduce head count, Massachusetts has a bloated bureaucracy, and you didn't reduce that.ROMNEY: Wrong.Q: Let me finish.ROMNEY: Ok, that was wrong. Go ahead.Q: No, no, I've looked at all the facts , okay? I have a plethora of data, you know, in my car." [laughter] Number two, I expected you to reduce the budget. In addition to reducing head count, I want to see a reduction in budget, and I didn't see that."ROMNEY: First year, did you?Q: I didn't see that first year, I didn't see that second year-ROMNEY: Happened. Did. Did. Number two.Q: Number three, I thought that one of the things you would also do is really revise a corrupt court system in Massachusetts, you didn't do that-ROMNEY: Yeah. We did. Yeah, so far, so far I'm gonna gjve you good data.Q: Number four, I certainly though, I certainly thought that one of the things you were gonna do was really get a handle of that Democratic-controlled, uh, house, and uh, senate, but unfortunately I think Finneran and Travaglini handled you rather than you handling them, okay?ROMNEY: Okay.Q: So my question to you is as follows. Given that Massachusetts-ROMNEY: You've got four I gotta deal with already.Q: They all follow in the same line. Given that Massachusetts if the minor league of political arena, okay, since in my view you didn't do well in those areas there, okay, how do you think you can do in the real gladiatorial arena of Washington politics when you didn't do that in Massachusetts?LABEL: MR NH 12-26 (BH#43) IHSED-clipBTo download a high res version of this clip, VISIT: http://issuealliance.box.net/s... download the full campaign event, VISIT: http://issuealliance.box.net/s...